Knowing I need some form of exercise (any actually because eating doesn’t count as exercise I’ve been told) during this seemingly never ending lock down; I challenged my son to a beat-saber-oke-dance-a-thon. I know I have no chance of beating him with just regular beat-saber as he can complete expert+ 360 level songs with increased…
Hope for the Best but Expect No Less
As a parent I always worry about his future and him making mistakes in life. These freestyle jam sessions remind me of how he is growing up to be an independent person who makes his own choices and mistakes without me telling him what is right or wrong. I often tell him during these sessions…
Star Wars Squadrons in VR
Ever since I played Wing Commander back in the 90s I have always been fascinated by how we can represent a 3D world mechanism in a 2D screen. Back in high school I remember coding in C++ a first person pilot view game that let me blast away square asteroids. It was basically the Wing…
Adventures in Vision Based Machine Learning
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…
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…
