Archive for 'Robot'
Windows XP on the XO
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Prlwytzkofsky.
Well, not quite. The pictured green, cute laptop is in fact an OLPC running Debian, remotely connected to a windows XP machine. Great outdoors in spring & summer thanks to the XO’s sunlight readable display. Though forgoing MSWin altogether and sticking to Debian might not be a bad idea either.
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Twittered
Posted on 19. Apr, 2009 by Prlwytzkofsky.
A small Flash application selectively consuming twitter posts, cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon while doing a little research into RESTful webservices. The app continuously searches Twitter for posts containing “I love” or “I hate” (inspired by the beautiful twistory site) using the AS3 G94 Circular Menu and Tweetr API.
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Kwizt!
Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by Prlwytzkofsky.
Our pilot for the Kwizt project is nearing completion! For its backend the application makes use of Drupal, extensively building on the AMFPHP, Quiz and Services modules. The userinterface is 100% Flash Actionscript 3.0, smoothly bouncing elements up and down the stage thanks to GreenSocks libraries.
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Streaming Multiple YouTube Videos
Posted on 28. Mar, 2009 by Prlwytzkofsky.
I must admit, after a few days without progress, I had to suspect it just wasn’t going to work. I couldn’t get Flash to stream more than one YouTube video at the same time.
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Flexible Flash
Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Prlwytzkofsky.
While searching for a Flash display manager I came upon the NpFlexLayout class on Blog.noPonies.com. It seemed just what I was looking for – except for an option to constrain the proportions of resizeable objects. Fortunately it proved easy to add a “keepRatio” option to the well documented NoPonies code.
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PixelCam
Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by Prlwytzkofsky.
Just a short post demonstrating the ease with which you an create a filtered live cam feed using but a few lines of Actionscript.
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EC2 Socket ElectroServer
Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by Prlwytzkofsky.
Still happy with my EC2 Server. Without limits imposed by a hosting provider I can now mess about with some interesting server-sided stuff. For example an ElectroServer socket server.
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Prlwytzkofsky in the Clouds
Posted on 26. Dec, 2008 by Prlwytzkofsky.
Hurray! I am virtualized! As of this week, Prlwytzkofsky’s experiments will be hosted on their very own Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Server.
