CloudACM – Page 76 – Autonomous Computational Machines

Image Presentations and some Pi

May 7, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

Virtual Reality Presentations with photography During my travels to Alaska the past week and a half I had the good fortune to find a photo stitching program called Photosynth. The idea isn’t anything new. I had used stitching programs before in the late 90’s. What set this apart was the rendering options. Subjects weren’t strictly panoramic, a subject covered in great detail by Pano. Subjects could be center pieces, along a wall, or traveled through. The rendering brings the subjects…

Android Application Development

April 25, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

The fast rapids have given way to the open mass of water that moves slow. I have completed introductions to developing applications on Android devices. The interface and terminology have been the most challenging part. I’m currently reading two books on the subject. The first book which has most of the grit is “Android in Action“ (W. Frank Ableson, Robi Sen, Chris King, C. Enrique Ortiz. Android…

Sensor Presentation

April 18, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

GPS Visualizer This site has been known to me for a while. I originally had found it in my search for ways to convert Google Map routes to a GPX file that would load in TopoFusion. The site is so feature rich that I skipped past it. I returned a few more times since then, but hadn’t found any compelling reason to look into it further. This changed with Hazim Bitar‘s Android App “SensoDuino“. The tutorial he presented helped put the…