Author: nwinocur

  • Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander in Windows 7 64-bit

    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…

  • Robotics & Perception

    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:

  • Inverse Kinematics and Robot Arms

    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).”

  • AmigoBots

    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).