After spending the past year working with the team at New South Wales State Library, I thought it would be fun to spend a hack day with the team and play with the data. Erle and myself decided to create a tool for hackers rather then an application ourselves. There was so many different sets of data so we thought what if we could take the data into a tool like Neo4J and start trying…
March 22 to 24th Had been waiting for this weekend for awhile, most people who know me know the advocacy and support I give to Autism and Asperger. There has never been a specific hack day for Autism and after the SXSW Autism Apps panel I was pumped for some development. The introductory night went well and Michal from MIT told us all about his new Open Source project for story building and recent research…
So as mentioned we built a project on the Kinect which helped to teach kids emotion through the use of the Kinect sensor. The project was a game called Oh! and consisted of three levels; Ask kids to match the picture card of an emotion to the one being shown, “”Can you match the emotion”” Ask kids to pronounce the emotion, “”This is a happy face can you say happy”” Ask kids to make the…
On the 29th of September 2010 I managed to make my way to the London Hackspace. I boarded on the train and made my way to Victoria station where I was going to change trains to Hoxton and though I would take a smoke break. When I returned to walk down to the station it was boarded up with police standing in the way. Supposedly there was a bad smell reported and people where ill…
Another event being put on by Ollie Saunders is the Edinburgh HackerSpace Opening. This will be on Friday the 17th of September. I will miss it unfortunately as I will be in London. But if you are in Edinburgh pop in and check it out fun for all Geeks. http://wiki.edinburghhacklab.com/%E2%80%9D Edinburgh Hacklab
Arrived in Edinburgh on the 29th of July to visit my close friend Anand Kumria. Long 29 hour journey and three planes later, it was good to catch up and stay with Anand, finally catching up after not seeing him for 2months when last in Sydney. Anand Kumria is a fellow Linux / Open source architect, who is currently developing in Python as well as many other things. Anand had mentioned that the Tech Meet-up…