Signals

Since I recently bought several new guitar pedals, I decided that I needed a new pedal board design. My old design was a simple one: suitcase with velcro and well placed cables. I’ve also been trying to find an excuse to learn Solid Works for creating 3D models. Thus, I [...]

The first paper where I was the first author has finally been posted to IEEE Xplore’s website. The paper was titled “An implementation of ROS on the Yellowfin autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).” You can find the Google Scholar reference to my paper here: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=An+implementation+of+ROS+on+the+Yellowfin+autonomous+underwater+vehicle+%28AUV%29+&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C11&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 I presented the paper at the [...]

I recorded this piece using my new Tascam Linear PCM Recorder. I recorded the finger picking section first, then I overdubbed the lead part using the Tascam recorder. I didn’t use any computer recording software and I didn’t mess with the EQ at all on the tracks. I’m pretty impressed [...]

I’m getting pretty far along on the wearable system I am building for my Real-Time and Embedded Systems class. I now have the Xilinx Microboard driving two DC motors to give the user feedback on suggested paths. I embedded a Microblaze 32-bit processor in the Xilinx FPGA which uses the [...]

Mira and I adopted a new stray puppy, who we have named, Ponce.  He is a Labrador / Hound mix and he is great with our other dog, Jacy.  Here is a great photo of Ponce.

Here is the flickr photo stream of my trip to the Robotics Science and Systems 2011 at the University of Southern California. The full flickr photo stream can be found at: LA-RSS-2011

Here is a quick video I put together of my dog, Jacy, playing in the sand on the Atlanta Belt-line. I put the video together using some generic iMovie transitions, sue me.

Here are some photos of Jacy from this summer, so far!  We have gone swimming in the Chattahoochee river, walking through trails, and Jacy is great at listening now.

I am working on a dynamics simulator for an underwater vehicle to be run in the Robot Operating System (ROS – www.ros.org )  The purpose is to be able to completely simulate an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in ROS and then use that same code to control the actual AUV [...]

I recently purchased a the AKAI APC20 for my Ableton Live setup. When I was at the music store purchasing the controller, the guy at the counter suggested that I purchase the $15 store warranty. However, I declined since I figured that if I wore out the pads on the [...]