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You might be interested in my academic work, artworks, software, music and sound or creative technology projects. Selected blog posts below, or the whole thing here.
ChaoDependant Video
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Here's a quick video of ChaoDependant footage, from a BMW launch in Milan:
art-science Presentation Update
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This is an update of my presentation about art-science as an interdisciplinary activity, and why I like to do it, which I gave at Napier Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation. Not very text based, so might not be clear on its own.
art-sci title page
Creating a Syntax Highlighting, Outlining editor with Eclipse and XText
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I've been working with LPJ-Guess recently. It's a digital vegetation model, but that's not important to this discussion. What's important is that it has it's own, non-standard config syntax. Editing this can be confusing, without the tools that we take for granted, like syntax highlighting, and outline editors etc.
art-science Presentation
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Sous Vide Tuning
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A while back I built a controller for doing home Sous Vide (write up to come...). It controls a hotplate under a pan of water and uses a digital temperature sensor to attempt to maintain a constant, precise temperature. I hacked together a simple control system, and found that it worked very badly for controlling a system with so much lag. I tried a bit of tweaking, but it was still not very good - a tendency to overshoot massively, and take a long time to cool down.
OpenFlights and MongoDB
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I often find that I want to do more advanced queries of airports/cities than search engines allow, e.g. find me large cities which I can fly to from both these places and not have to travel more than 50km at the end. I'm using this as an excuse to learn: