TI-83 and the moon
Great fact from Quora (I'm sure only engineers will get the context) The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator, and it...
View Articleplaying around with computer vision, python, and opencv
I have been playing around with Python quite a bit lately and have recently been playing around with OpenCV (Open Computer Vision) to see what if I couldn't get it to track something. Well I did (that...
View Articlemeasuring angles in opencv
Not too long ago I mentioned I was playing around with opencv and python. Well, in between client work I've moved a bit forward. Now I'm calculating the angle of a line between two tracked points...
View Articlelearn python at MIT... online
A while back I mentioned that MIT had done something innovative: they offered a course (6.002x – Circuits and Electronics) online that, upon attaining a passing grade, would result in an actual...
View Articlecomputer vision in early stage product development (with code)
Followers of the blog know that I've been playing around with python and computer vision. Well I recently wrote an article describing how computer vision can be used in product development. In the...
View Articlewhy mechanical engineers should take MIT 6.00x (starts monday 10.01.12)
I recently mentioned that MIT was now offering their 600 course, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, online via edx. Well I've signed up. It starts monday and I'm excited. More...
View Articlewhat I've been up to...
My posts have been less frequent in the past few months, and I want to ensure to you that it isn't because I've got nothing to talk about. Quite the opposite, there is so much going on that it is...
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Using a Fast Fourier Transform to analyze test data
A Fast Fourier Transform can take nosiy data that look like this: And give you something much more precise and useful (ie the freuqnecy, amplitude, and phase offset), like this: Usually you see these...
View Articledisrupting CAD: The future is open
One of the more controversial posts I've written was about how unigraphics sucks. I wrote it a few years ago and have occasionally fielded comments from people with strong opinions. In responding to...
View Articlethis blog is not dead, long live hardware
Much of my content here is search engine bait, but this one goes out directly to my wonderful subscribers and commenters. As you may have noticed, I have not updated this post in a while. Those of you...
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