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Eric Archer
Eric Archer is one of my favorite people on youtube. Here’s him poking around inside of the Oberheim DMX: A serious audio and electronics geek, Eric has a whole grip of homemade devices and hacks on his website. His Andromeda … Continue reading
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WordPress Ancestors and Custom Fields
I’m doing my first serious wordpress project and I’m loving the page ancestor scheme. One of the cooler things you can do is define custom fields or featured images for the top level page, and have the children pull it … Continue reading
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Defrag – Quake in motion
Defrag is a mod for the now classic Quake 3 engine. It focuses on trick jumping and time trial races through a variety of maps. What makes the quake engine a sensible choice for racing? Strafe jumping is a type … Continue reading
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Unit Math: Flipping and Looping
There’s a few common problems I come across in game programming that are solvable with a set of if statements. Things like looping values or determining if a number is positive or negative. I was always a little uncomfortable taking … Continue reading
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Invent Your Own Computer Games
I cannot review this book under the most ideal circumstances as I have prior hobby programming experience, and recently some experience making games. However, I’m self taught and I highly value good resources to teach myself from. If I had … Continue reading
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Noisebridge Hackerspace
KQED just released a great five minute intro to Noisebridge / the hackerspace movement: Further info including directions to the space can be found @ noisebridge.net
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Bash Curses Cancer
Just wanted to link this; it’s a great blog all about bash scripting http://bashcurescancer.com/
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The Exploratorium’s Harmonic Pendulum
I went to the Exploratorium this weekend, one of my favorite places in the bay area. It’s a humongous space featuring hundreds of exhibits demonstrating the world of science. There are earthquake sandboxes, motorized drum machines, human sized photo-reactive plates, … Continue reading
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Kinect!
The Kinect is open and ‘hacked’ and the race is on to actually do something with all this data! More info can be found on the OpenKinect wiki.
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Genetic Starcraft
I used to kind of shit on Starcraft but lately I’ve gotten way into the science of it. Even as an outsider (I can’t RTS to save my life) it’s great watching replays on Husky’s channel. This however, takes the … Continue reading
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