Jan 15Slow progress on my SLAM by blob-finding projectA navigation platform using a Pi Zero 2 W, 8MP Pi Camera 2, VL53L0X, TFmini-S and an MPU9250. GitHub Repo I have been working on this project on my free time, it’s one of those projects that just drags on since it has so many tasks to do that are…Raspberry Pi4 min readRaspberry Pi4 min read
Jan 8Programmable friendsTwilio, Google Cloud Vision and OpenAI Friend Chat GitHub Repo Video demo Can a computer understand a meme?Open AI4 min readOpen AI4 min read
Dec 22, 2022Learning is hardThis is mostly an excuse to use the picture above (for a Haskell blog post). I am a backer of the Simula One VR device and their software is written with Haskell. I wanted to port it to C++ since that is more tangible/readable to me. …Blog3 min readBlog3 min read
Nov 11, 2022Software development on Pinebook Pro using Debian and device impressions (2022)Note: all of the info below is with the PBP using a SanDisk Extreme SD card for its OS. Notes for Manjaro/AArch64 I was able to reproduce the build. The only package I was missing is javascriptcoregtk-4.0(use webkit2gtk) like Debian below. First build eg. npm run tauri dev took about…Pinebook Pro6 min readPinebook Pro6 min read
Oct 15, 2022Messing around with Pinephone Pro againnote: this is an unfiltered stream of consciousness type blog post So recently I did an -Syyu update for my Manjaro/KDE Plasma mobile install on the phone/eMMC and it just straight up broke. Some lock screen message came up and I can’t get past it. …Pinephone Pro7 min readPinephone Pro7 min read
Oct 10, 2022Improving my semi-automated browser finance app loginsDisclaimer: this is a work in progress GitHub Repo (dev branch currently) I say semi-automated because the issue of 2FA and Captcha still requires human intervention. It is possible to bypass those but I don’t address it for my needs. So a while back I worked on this project which…Java Script5 min readJava Script5 min read
Aug 28, 2022Yet another chrome extension (this time an iframe injector)GitHub repo (the main branch uses non-remote origin method) Update There is a much easier way to build this. You use the contents of the popup ui as the iframe. Then you don’t need a remote origin url. Supposedly it is secure. I am not sure on this but when I…Web Development4 min readWeb Development4 min read
Aug 21, 2022Janky navigation with blob finding and depth probing (devlog)This post is related to my current SLAM project. See old one if interested. Note I am a noob. Background I have developed a newer navigation unit which has some sensors, namely: camera, ToF ranging sensor, lidar sensor and an IMU. So now I have to take that and be able…Opencv8 min readOpencv8 min read
Aug 9, 2022Another crappy SLAM development platformOr as I call it “Floating Navigation Sensor Assembly” which really it’s just a gimbal. Navigation unit repo WiFi buggy repo Background I’ll preface this by saying that in the past my experience with the TFmini-s for Arduino had me expecting that it could only measure as close as 30cm…Robotics4 min readRobotics4 min read
Jul 29, 2022What kind of development can you do with an old $50 Chromebook? (ASUS C100P)Model: C100PA-DB02 CPU: ARMv7 Rockchip 1.8GHz quadcore RAM: 4GB Storage: 16GB eMMC TL;DR Not really usable for development (lol). While you can develop with it, the lag is prohibitive. This is in the context of ReactJS/ElectronJS/Node in my case. You do npm install and wait like 10 minutes or more. …Chromebook4 min readChromebook4 min read
