Signals

I write a lot of new music and guitar riffs, but I don’t always record my ideas. Then, before I know it, I’ve forgotten the last great musical idea that I had. So, I decided I would try to record more often.  Here the result for this Sunday night…

“Defiantly displaying bumper stickers of failed presidential bids.” Everywhere you go you will see old bumper stickers from previous presidential campaigns. I like how stubborn folks will leave the losing candidate’s bumper sticker on their car or truck so they can always point to it later and say… “SEEE! I [...]

This quick demonstration shows how I can control the settings and parameters of plugins in Ableton Live with a Kinect. The basic idea is that I am using “Synapse for Kinect” to generate left and right hand positions relative to my body, normalizing the positions from Synapse to the midi [...]

I put together a quick demo today of using the Kinect sensor with Max / MSP 5. Thanks to the great software by Ryan Challinor (Synapse) I was able to get the Kinect sensor working with Max / MSP within an hour without ever having worked with the Kinect sensor [...]

One of my New Year’s resolutions was using more electronics, engineering, and programming in my band’s live performances. Also, it all has to be improvisational, so no static drum or video loops!  I think I want to make a sort of Kinect Theremin, but not an exact one.  I’m going [...]

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.