wheelchair disk brakes
A long standing project, and a big part of the open PAW concept, is controlling braking with software (on board arduino or android). As a quadriplegic I don’t want to take my hands off the wheels to apply the brakes because this throws off my balance (especially on uneven ground or with muscle spasms to...
testing the gopro hero 3 camera
testing the camera on the seawall. this is simply the goPo handle bar mount attached to my wheelchair. I imported into final cut and shared to youtube directly. I did the colour balance step after a few basic edits. be sure to try it in different resolutions. the 720p and 1080p version look really good....
CKNW sunday night sex show
So this happened.. I was interviewed on a topic other than climbing and/or boosting on Maureen McGrath’s radio show. I couldn’t help but talk about boosting and autonomic dysreflexia, but they are in fact, very much related. I chopped out the segment I’m in, following tips for premature ejaculation, and posted in here. I think...
boosting in the london games
I was recently interviewed here in Vancouver about the boosting that will be going on in the coming paralympic games. No one actually participating in these events would ever discus performance boosting obviously, so Sky News in London found my blog and got in touch. They wanted to know how it works and “is this...
meet the super humans
About bloody time, I say. These warm and fuzzy videos of past Paralympic games are just vomit inducing. (like Michael Bolton singing kind of bad). Finally the marketing people are getting it. These athletes are simply bad-ass. They work hard for years to get to the games, and then they throw down and just crush...
why you need grit
Jonah Lehrer: The Origins of Creative Insight & Why You Need Grit Do we sometimes pay too high a price for our dreams? Or worse, pick the wrong ones to follow? I remember having many conversations like this while making all the gear for rock climbing. It was NOT at all a practical goal (given...
tacking into the bike lane
update: personal best for distance in a day with hills. I call this ‘red route four’, and going over the bridge this way is a brutal left arm workout. It’s finally summer and I am happy to trade in the computer screen radiation for sunshine. After all the rain I am loving the evenings on...
free education in computer science
I am finally ready and wanting to learn again. No papers and exams, but learning for fun. Remember when that was true? As a kid, my friends and I would create small dams with sand and mud, then upend the buckets of water to see if our design actually worked. A few summers later, I...
squamish film fest
Ivan’s mountain film fest week is coming up. I was asked to do 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide on the July 11th show. Climbing Slides (20mb) or as pdf Science Slides (20mb) more at http://www.squamishmountainfestival.com/
telnet to oculus
News update: Oculus can now be purchased via RobotShop.com in most counties. As a follow up to the blog on using good old telnet to control oculus, I’ll give a few examples of how you can test your own scripts. A standard telnet session from my OSX machine follows, note the password can be plain...
performance boosting
Performance Boosting with Autonomic Dysreflexia This page will hold data and evaluation of “boosting” experiments that I’m doing in order to get my heart and blood pressure to respond appropriately while climbing. See ramp wheeling tests to learn more about post exercise hypotension (EH) , and why this limits performance in most quadriplegics. First some...
oculus circuit boards shipping
After well exceeding Colin’s kickstarter goal, circuit boards are getting turned out on mass. How would much you enjoy boot loading a 100 PCB’s in your garage?Colin says it’s zen like. I really prefer writing code, breaking things etc. Cool new 3d sensor for Oculus is available for developers. More information on the new page...