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...
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 on kick starter
Now you pledge support (buy a robot or a shirt) to support Colin’s garage alliance of robot builders and coders. Kick Starter is a really cool way to crowd source funds and interest for your new project. Lots of clever devices you wouldn’t get with the current, odious venture capital game. The bot has also...
new battery and chair mount
From drawing board to being ready to install in single day? Colin, same guy that is now selling wifi robots, salvaged an old power drill to go with the new Lithium-ion battery pack for my chair. More Ardiuno and IOIO protects are possible now that I have a power supply I can remove and charge...
red route one
Testing android GPS and wheeling around my block. Will use this course as the base line for testing openPAW.
oculus available soon
My friend Colin has project that I’ve been helping him test for the last few months.. and now oculus finally ready for market! Colin has made bikes and my custom climbing rig in the past, but he has always wanted to make affordable wifi robots. The key to oculus is the low cost but fully...
aldebaran robotics’ nao
Solid state sensors and high torque servos are getting cheaper all the time, but it is the software methodologies that needed to change for walking to be considered a “primitive behavior”. Any kids learning about robots would, and should, assume that we have walking sorted. Getting back into standing from an unknown state, say on...
health and fitness journal
I’ve been paid to write about computers and sensors, make graphs etc.. But this is the first thing that has ever been peer reviewed. Here I was given a chance to, “tell it like it is”, to some out of touch scientists! Joking aside, there is some things about science that I very much dislike....
have a go day
Update: see photos here. Summer is in full swing and we are going to set up the climbing rig in Squamish on August 21st. We have done this route several times, but with everyone in different jobs. I’m going to put all the details here because much of the planning is buried in email and...
better text entry for disability
In past posts, I’ve ranted about resistive vs capacitive screens for typing. Apple’s phone and tablet are great, but as a quad with poor hand function, most will prefer to use a finger nail to type. On my Nokia 5800 this works well and the new firmware has better smooth scrolling (inertia in the flicking...