The road to success is paved with failure. The key is making sure your mistakes are good ones.
Explore the World with the GeoGuessr Game
Google Maps have been used to create incredible systems that help us identify DC Taxi Cab Zones, the most dangerous roads on Earth, and the best times to take winery tours. GeoGuessr uses the Google Maps API to do something novel and fun by making a game of guessing where you might be in the world. The photo above is a typical view of how the game begins. By using clues like road signs, tree types, and weather you are encouraged to deduce where you are in the world according to Google Maps.
Around the World – Honduras and Cozumel
Recently I took a cruise to Honduras and Cozumel. Thought I could share the trip and some of the pictures I took. Upon arriving in Honduras we took a van…
Open Source Death Star Kickstarter
After a failed petition to the U.S. government to build a Death Star, someone has taken up the cause to fund the construction project using the popular crowd sourced funding website Kickstarter. Thankfully, to help keep costs down and to help make the project a reality open source hardware and software will be used. Along with “enough chicken wire to protect reactor exhaust ports.” I can’t wait.
The Robopocalypse won’t be a war between robots and humans. Robots, sentient or not, will be soldiers in a human war.
Mirada Studios Before and After Visual Effects Reel Explains How Jaeger Mechas Are Made
Mirada Studios posted the following VFX reel to show the craftsmanship required to make monolithic monsters and machines into movie reality.
How the “Mother of All Demos” Changed our Lives
I recently learned about a computer demonstration dubbed “The Mother of All Demos” given 40 years ago by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Douglas showed off the NLS computer to a crowd of 1000 computer pros. The demo of this system given on December 9, 1968 is now considered one of the most important in modern computing history.