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Where To Now?

Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates

Posted 10 May 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

More Arduino, Post No. 3

So for a few entries, Arduino has been the topic, and essentially it seems to be the most exciting as the ultimate mash-up, with components that can track, communicate, navigate on their own. Since the quad-helicopter, this hex-helicopter is the most impressive diy by MikroKopter.

MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.
With a solid 30 [...]

Posted 09 March 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) °

We Need To Know More

In 1992, GIS wasn’t mainstream and in 1994, I remember having discussions as to, it might be better to rip maps from a phone book for Environmental Mapping than developing GIS because in the end, the client’s not buying information, because all we’re doing is “selling man hours.” In ‘96, it was clear that X [...]

Posted 02 March 2010 § ‡ Comments (2) °

Reading: BYO - CNC Machine

Besides Arduino, I am reading about CNC (computer numerical control) machines. Most everyone has seen a 3D “printer” or some form of physical 3D modeling. For the geospatial industry it was just so impressive to see 3D terrain models cut and painted. However, these guys have been so busy for years, and the professional 3D [...]

Posted 01 March 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Data Visualization Analytics - Grammar of Graphics

Just a quick note, again for a reminder and something I need to discuss again is BirdEye as well as Protovis and anything related to the Grammar of Graphics.
http://dataspora.com/blog/dataviz-sf-salon-no/
http://code.google.com/p/protovis-js/
http://www.jstatsoft.org/v17/b03/paper
order from: Springer

Posted 22 February 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Arduino, GIS PINS, Post No. 2

I have a wait before I get my first arduino.  So plenty to read up on.  It seems Geographic Information System and Global Positioning Systems are everywhere; But next will be the GIS and Personal Inertial Navigational Systems.  Check out this quarter size Inertial Measuring Unit by SparkFun. 2 axis gyros, and 3 accelerometers.

Posted 02 February 2010 § ‡ Comments (1) °

Arduino, Post No. 1

For the last week, I was trying to remember the API for working with Micro-controllers called Arduino.  This is a post to help me remember Arduino and why I am interested in Arduino.  First, I like to prototype since it doesn’t require that it works perfectly. However, prototypes are very rewarding, since it helps lay [...]

Posted 02 February 2010 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Now Serving Ticket…

This is very cool, a map to post where your visitors are viewing from. You’ll need to visit http://whos.amung.us to get one for yourself… but don’t feel bad if your the only pin on this map. I mean, this is the ultimate privacy to be one out of 6 billion on this map.

Posted 22 February 2009 § Maps ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,