Category: Visual Programming
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More kite based UAV toolkit action
Some further kite testing with UAV Toolkit last week at Gwithian beach, with a strong offshore wind (and rather good looking surf too). We managed to max out the kite altitude and get some great photographs including surfers and flocks of birds. See the previous kite post for more details on the kite. I’ve also…
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Kite mapping with UAV toolkit
Some photos taken by the UAV toolkit on a recent flight at our gyllyngvase beach test site, using a KAP foil 1.6 kite instead of a drone. Kites have many advantages, no flight licences required, no vibration from engines and a fully renewable power source! We’re using a 3D printed mounting plate for the phone…
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Test flight day!
View of ground control from a OnePlus phone mounted on a Y6 UAV: A report from the first flight test of the new UAV android software with the Exeter University UAV science group. We had two aircraft, a nice battle hardened fixed wing RC plane and a very futuristic 3D robotics RTF Y6. We also…
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Livecoding UAVs for environmental research
Some screenshots of the UAV livecoding visual programming language. Weather being on our side, we’re planning some test flights later this week! The first program uses GPS to take photos with an overlap of 50% at 300 metres altitude, based on the vertical camera angle as reported from the device. It assumes the the flight…
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Visual programming for environmental research with UAVs
I’ve recently begun a new project with Karen Anderson who runs the UAV research group at the Exeter University Environment and Sustainability Institute. We’re looking at using commodity technology like android phones for environmental research with drones. Ecology research groups and environmental agencies have started using drones as a replacement for expensive and risky light…
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Weaving notations
I’ve collected images from our workshops in Leeds and Sheffield as we attempted to understand the intricacies of weaving, particularly ancient looms from antiquity. A simple visualisation of a loom. Attempting to understand the relationship between lift plans and heddles. The connection between tablet woven bands, whose weft form the warp of the warp-weighted loom.…
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Flotsam: A prototype screenless livecoding language
Two languages are working with Flotsam, the new name for the prototype screenless tangible programming language I’ve been building (which comes from the fact it’s largely made from driftwood). It’s somehow already been featured on the Adafruit blog! The circuit seems to be fully debugged now, with short circuits fixed – which took a little…
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Neural Network livecoding and retrofitting ZX Spectrum hardware
An experimental, and quite angry neural network livecoding synth (with an audio ‘weave’ visualisation) for the ZX Spectrum: source code and TZX file (for emulators). It’s a bit hard to make out in the video, but you can move around the 48 neurons and modify their synapses and trigger levels. There are two clock inputs…
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Scratch -> Lego Mindstorms
A bit of hardware hacking for Troon Primary CodeClub, who have tons of old style Lego Mindstorms they don’t use any more, and after a year of Scratch programming on their PCs are just getting started with Raspberry Pi. We’re using this Scratch modification together with the hardware I’m making which is based on this…
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Open Sauces: A structured recipe notebook
It’s been busy in the android department this week. Here’s a prototype recipe notebook for open sauces. At this point it’s primarily a test of a drag/drop interface to make it possible for anyone to make the recipe graphs we explored visualising in October. I’m testing it with the recipes designed for FoAM’s recent Smoke…