Entries from February 2007

My first attempt at scones. These are a bit too sweet and have a bit too much vanilla for my taste. The dough was very sticky, next time I should use less liquid.

From Sun-Maid Recipes

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The ModelTalker Synthesizer is a very interesting speech synthesis package that appears to allow you to record your own voices.

Grand Text Auto talks about text adventure games and includes a link (broken) to the Flash Adventure Creation Editor.

We should look at this list at Independent Gaming for ideas for accessible adventures.

ctypes makes it really easy to control the USB-1024HLS Digital I/O box from python.

This gets the 2 functions I need and tests to see if the device is there

import ctypes
UL = ctypes.windll.cbw32
cbDConfigPort = UL.cbDConfigPort
cbDOut = UL.cbDOut

FIRSTPORTA = 10
FIRSTPORTB = 11
FIRSTPORTCL = 12
FIRSTPORTCH = 13
DIGITALOUT = 1
DIGITALIN  =  2

port = FIRSTPORTA

try:
    assert cbDConfigPort(0, port, DIGITALOUT) == 0
except AssertionError:
    print 'Configuration of the USB-1024HLS failed'

Then to send data, I simply

cbDOut(0, port, bits)

Viterbi School chip designers create novel CMOS architectures for ‘biometric radar’ and automobile accident avoidance systems

These could be great for ET.

MobileASL is a video compression project at the University of Washington with the goal of making wireless cell phone communication through sign language a reality.

Shelley Tabakman of the NC DHHS asked about some sort of visual alert for hearing-impaired users of email and IM. They’d like to be notified of an incoming message by a signal visible when not looking at the screen. The INSTEON developer kit looks like the right goods.

A few tricks I learned using ctypes to wrap OpenCV.

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A press release from the Rett Syndrome Research Foundation announces results of a landmark study reversing the symptoms of Rett Syndrome (RTT) in a genetic mouse model. Wow!