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In this video, rez the dog demonstrates his helicopter catching ability. Rez can jump up and gently snag the tail of a helicopter, avoiding the dangerous blades, with a success rate of about 90%.  He typically jumps 2-3 feet in the air to make these kills. http://carson.oakenweld.com/rezTheCopterCatcher.html

Intro to Digital Signal Processing – MWF 10-11 Interactive Software Systems – MW 3-415 Robotic Vision – TTh 930-1045 CB 406  

This is my start into the wide world of bread making (makes 2 loaves):Combine in mixer bowl:  3 cups whole wheat flour 1/2 cup nonfat dry milk some salt (little) 2 pkg. dry yeast (or about 2 tablespoons) Heat in saucepan until warm:  3 cup water or potato water 1/2 cup honey 2 tablespoons oil…

Although there are a few good video formats that almost everyone should be able to play, it seems the only way to guarantee that someone will be able to view your video over the Internet is to use some flash-video based service, such as YouTube or Google Video.  The problem is that these services have…

For those who already go to World’s Gym and enjoy pumping up their physiques, it likely doesn’t cross your mind that there is anything wrong with World’s Gym. The truth, however, is quite different for a large number of people such as me.The problem is that World’s Gym operates, shamelessly, on this principle: that people…

Here’s a Fenisoft 3D raytracer, a sister product with the Fenisoft 3D scanline renderer. The difference here being, of course, that instead of using a scanline approach with a zbuffer, I “project” rays out to determine intersections. My teacher made the comment that most people show off their raytracers by showing some spheres hovering over…

Here is a video of our mechanized, backlit lion. Note the 10 stars, one for each member of the Lion House. This shield has become a nice conversation point at parties. View Video

Grid filtering is a useful technique in Artifical Intelligence that lets you determine the true state of your environment from a noisy sensor. As an example, imagine you were a tank in a 3D world that you had never explored. Of course, to make this contrived example less realistic, I will assume you can only…

This is one of those projects that seems much cooler to the maker than the observer. Here I have a biplane. What makes it special is that it was rendered using Carson Fenimore’s 3D renderer. If you have never heard of it, that’s ok – that probably won’t change, even after I finalize things with…

This is a new classic in my book: Combine stir fried chicken on a well boiled set of potatoes. Scrum-didily-upmtious!