Lightly Documented Projects Part 1: Adventures in Curling

Although I don’t update this site very frequently, I usually *eventually* get around to doing a write-up for my more interesting projects. I still aspire to doing that, but my free time has been at more of a premium since the arrival of el bebe, so the documentation has suffered more than anything else. On that note, I’ve decided to start lightly documenting some of my past projects as quick blog posts. Some of them might get a more in-depth writeup at some point. The Curlometer For several years my wife and I were enthusiastic curlers. It’s a fantastic sport

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Deep Dish Nine hits the Kaypro!

Now that my website is back online after a brief (okay, more like 3 months) hiatus do to wordpress . . . issues, I finally got a chance to finish writing up my efforts to port my Deep Dish Nine game to my 34 year old Kaypro 2/84 Z80-based microcomputer! Check out the full write-up and give it a spin if you’ve got some retro hardware lying around.

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Introducing Deep Dish Nine

My latest Arduboy offering – Deep Dish Nine is essentially an interactive version of the n-body simulation of the TRAPPIST-1 system I wrote for HANS. Fly around the TRAPPIST-1 system delivering pizzas and showing off your skill with orbital mechanics. Check out the full write-up!

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HANS gets an upgrade

It’s rare that any of my projects get a mid-life upgrade (or do much more than gather dust on a shelf once completed), but HANS is that rare project with long-term entertainment value. It sat on my desk happily calculating the state of our inner solar system for over a year, before I began to get a bit bored with it. Our inner solar system just isn’t that exciting to watch (and I got tired of having to reset it every 3 months or so when the Sun started to drift away). What could I do to spice things up

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A Dream Fulfilled

Inspired by my previous blog-post, I finally got around to making my own dedicated Cripple Mr. Onion player. This had been on my to-do list for the like the last 7-8 years or so, and I’m pretty happy with how it finally turned out. Check out the full write-up for the gory details, or see a video of it in action:  

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