1. Flash-controled multi-user robot: Talked with the engineer behind the RCXDirect.jar toolkit for Java, he's generously adding some code to expand the number of motors controlled in a single byte-array command packet. Soon... real soon now. I'm also deciding between the xCam2 or a more expensive but higher quality wireless minicam for the robot. Have already bought an RCA video-USB reception converter from DLink for 60 bucks.
2. Flash interface to Movable Type: This weekend, will finish the XML template for index and archives. The current template outputs *everything*, which makes the download feed too heavy. I will break up the feeds into main index, sub-category, and article-specific. I'm also thinking of adding some code to parse the image tag in HTML.
3. Putting my course work online: The first thing I'll post online next week is my final paper for the course "Psychology of Information Systems". The paper is entitled "Interface Design Environments For Non Programmers". In the paper, I apply recent research in human-computer interaction from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University
Svanaes to analyze the past evolution and future direction of Flash technology. My favorite homework assignment from grad school :)
4. OOP Actionscript: Well, the book is more or less finished, and the technical editors (Andreas Heim, Dave Yang) are poring through every line of code with their usual rigor and high standards :) I keep thinking up new topics that seem absolutely necessary for the book, but I'll probably write them on my own time and post online for people who have bought the book, since we're pushing the publisher's page-count limit already.
5. We have been accepted to present a project at SIGGRAPH, involving the new real-time video/audio/data server technology from Macromedia.
All this stuff going on while looking for a full-time job, and I thought I was going to get a summer vacation :-)
-Sam
Posted by samuel at May 26, 2002 05:03 AMWah hooo .. so busy. I do hope you find some much needed time out over the summer.
Posted by: Keran at May 26, 2002 08:53 AMYeah so busy. If you find that time just think my country for laid back GREECE
and esp on my island Kos (state:Dodecanese). If you have on your mind to come to my country just drop me an e-mail. dimmdesign@hotmail.com
Have fun Sam.
Chanki
Posted by: Chanki at May 26, 2002 09:48 PMHey Keran and Chanki, thanks for writing! I hope to catch up on all the projects I postponed during school, and maybe even relax a little :) If I could afford it, I'd love to visit Greece one day, but first, I would read all the background stories and philosophy, to know which historical places to check out.
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