My son wanted us to build an automated Nerf blaster targeting mechanism that will detect humans in motion and shoot them. Now that’s what I call a succinct user requirement 😂. So began a saga of multiple experiments and projects. I promised him that I will build the tracking and aiming mechanism and he will…
Author: madcomputerscientist.ninja
Agile Software Development by Bruce Lee Part 2: Be agile like the verb not Agile like the noun
I have not invented a “new style,” composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from “this” method or “that” method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which…
I Scream, You Scream, The Door Screams
After years of planning, months of basic electronics and programming exercises he’s finally completed a project by himself with little help (but with a ton of pestering) from me. He came up with the idea during one of our idea sessions where he needs to write down and draw how his idea would work. This…
Call of Duty Warzone in Oculus Quest VR
The ultimate in social distancing by gaming in self isolation thru virtual reality during the quarantine. Playing Call of Duty Warzone on my Xbox One, streamed thru my laptop via the Xbox app, viewed on my Oculus Quest via the Virtual Desktop Streamer app. That’s what I call inception level remote streaming indirection 😂
28 Days Later
Built an automated, wireless, bluetooth enabled, battery powered counter to remind myself how long I’ve been working from home. Uses an Adafruit Feather nRF52 board and a panel of MAX72xx LEDs. After working from home straight for a month, I am reminded of how lucky I am. Working in an industry that gives me the…
Retro Pie MAXX
My son has been asking me to get him a Nintendo Switch so I decided to do the reasonable thing and built a 7 inch hand held console with thousands of games from NES, SNES, Sega Mega Drive, Game Boy Color and Playstation 1. Took apart the previous version that used a tiny 3 inch…
Thoughts on the Freeman Solution
I read the whole thing so I think I deserve to respond to this. I am one of the many Filipinos who decided to leave the country because of the traffic and daily commute horrors of living in Metro Manila. This was almost a decade ago. I can only imagine how much worse it is…
Everyone Knows: No Highs, No Lows, Bose Drivers Blows
I am not an audiophile nor am I a headphone snob. I am a cheap and practical person who wanted to see what all the fuss was about with these Bose active noise cancelling headphones. Of course being cheap meant I would never pay full price for a Bose headphone. So I scour the back…
Black Friday Super Cuts
Black Friday is upon us again so I was inclined to check out deals on new gadgets. As with any Black Friday season, you begin to justify why you need to buy something just because it’s on sale. This year, I had my eye on a new iPad considering how reasonably priced they are nowadays…
Tiny Keyboard + Phone Car Mount: Crazy? Genius? or Crazy Genius?
I have been trying to figure out a way to consistently blog during my commute to work. I have a 45 minute bus ride in the morning and evening. That’s an hour and a half every weekday I could use for blogging! I of course could just use my iPhone and the WordPress app to…
Technical Insanities of a Mad Computer Scientist 