I'm a computer science major at University of Oklahoma. Viral Electron Chaos Laboratories (VECLabs) is where I put all my interesting programming projects! I tend to specialize in programming related to robotics, console game enhancement, math, and networking, but I do other programming every now and then too.
GeckoTunnel Public Alpha 3 has been released. The big new feature is LAN play! Look at the GeckoTunnel page on the right sidebar to get it.
Also, my 2012 GeckoTunnel talk has been uploaded. See the Publications and Talks page on the right sidebar for the link to the video.
I gave a talk about GeckoTunnel (and a bit about GCARS-CS) at the 2012 University of Oklahoma Undergraduate Research Day Conference on March 31. Much better conference than last year, in my opinion. I'm uploading the talk now; I'll post again when it's up.
I've released a beta Stereo 3D code for F-Zero GX. Find it on the sidebar on the right. As far as I know, VECLabs is the first developer to enable Stereo 3D on a Wii. (Dolphin doesn't count.)
(Meanwhile GeckoTunnel has been making progress too... UDP Target is underway, which when finished will mean online play!)
VECLabs received its first donation earlier this month, to support online Super Smash Bros. Melee development. Big thanks to the donor (I'm not sure if I have permission to name the donor publicly). As a result of this donation, VECLabs GeckoTunnel resources are being focused on features which will be useful for SSBM. These are:
Those of you who have my asofok.org e-mail address should be aware that asofok.org will be closing soon; that e-mail address will be disappearing with it. My current contact information is on the "Contact Me" page on the sidebar. Update your address books accordingly.
The 2011 Global Conference on Educational Robotics was a big success, in part due to the Botball Live project, which I led. Botball Live even was the top story on the front page of the NASA Robotics website -- always nice to see my work being recognized. For the International Botball Tournament, we took 3rd place overall out of 63 teams from 4 countries... we're quite happy. I'll try to get my conference talks uploaded ASAP.
But on to what you care about: project development. For GeckoTunnel, I picked up a new capture card for testing purposes earlier this month. Now that robotics is mostly out of the way, I can focus on GeckoTunnel development... however, I should warn you that a lot of the dev that takes high priority for the college credit may not be dev that you care much about (e.g. documentation, code review). So while lots of work will be happening behind the scenes, you may not notice much. That said, the community has expressed particular interest in both Starfox Assault and F-Zero GX. I own and am a big fan of both games, so I will make a serious effort to work with both the Starfox and F-Zero communities on getting them online. (I just don't know exactly when that will happen.) I'll share updates when I have them. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this screenshot, which immortalizes my work being recognized by NASA!
Turned in the final edited versions of the GCER papers on Friday. 4 talks, 7 papers, 44 pages, 5 co-authors (not including me), most likely also a live showcase demo. Should be a fun conference. You can see the list of papers/talks by clicking the Publications and Talks link on the right sidebar.
After some bug-squishing (uninitialized variable... I feel like a n00b), angle correction is now fully functional. By eye, it takes about a second to calculate 24 angle cases (albeit this was via SSH, so the actual speed is probably faster)... not bad.
2 days until the final paper deadline!
Just wrote a test program for RangeTrack XY localization, using a single wall... worked perfectly on the first try. I'm quite pleased. All that's left is testing with multiple walls and adding the angle correction.
ImperiSim: The SolidWorks end of the GlovePIE integration improvement is done, next up is just deleting 90% of the GlovePIE script and that should be ready.
RangeTrack: Just finished up the code to generate an XY correction vector based on localization calculations. Next up is testing this humongous quantity of code on an actual robot... luckily, I have a CBC, a Create, and an ET here, which should be all I need. If that works, then I'll move on to a Theta correction. 4 days until final edits are due!
