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Rock Band songlist
For anyone planning on joining us for Rock Band, the list of songs we already have, along with their difficulty ratings per-instrument and overall difficulty for the band: Rock Band Songlist in PDF format Other songs we already have, but which would require swapping away from the Rock Band 3 disc to play: The Beatles…
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“Hotness x Beatdown 2” submission
My friends and I regularly challenge each other to making short playlists as a way of finding new music & introducing each other to artists we’ve never heard of.
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Mouse poll rate in Ubuntu
(note the following article is ported from an older site of mine, and may no longer apply to newer distributions of Ubuntu) Mice manufacturers may advertise high-end mice by tossing around DPI numbers as high as 5700 these days, but as long as you’ve got something that can do 800-1600DPI, poll rate is more important.…
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Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander in Windows 7 64-bit
Because Shattered Horizon was free on Steam the weekend I originally wrote this article and its movement system in zero-gravity space is more full-3D than most FPS games, I wanted to bust out the old Microsoft Strategic Commander. Unfortunately it hasn’t been supported since Windows XP, and I’m on Windows 7. Read on for how…
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Robotics & Perception
One of the electives I chose, Introduction to Robotics and Perception, had a semester-long group project of programming a WowWee Rovio (tech specs and api available on linked product support page) to do various tasks:
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Inverse Kinematics and Robot Arms
Towards the very end of my college undergraduate career, one of the courses I chose was “Introduction to Automation and Robotics,” better described as “Playing with robot arms (and matrix math).”
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AmigoBots
In the Digital Design Lab course when I was in college, our final project revolved around a MobileRobots AmigoBot (with a programmable Altera UP2 board strapped to the top; tech specs available in this pdf).