October 20th, 2009
Robot Face Tracking Video Uploaded
Just uploaded a video of the KHR-1HV doing some face tracking.
Available here on my site, or here on YouTube.
September 28th, 2009
KHR-1HV Humanoid Robot Page Uploaded
I have been working on this robot since last November.
Features Include:
- Stereo Vision
- Gyro and Acceleration Sensors
- Bluetooth Communication
- Radio Control
September 13th, 2009
Mt. Fuji Climb
Fuji Sengen Shrine. Night photography under a full moon. And of course the sunrise. A panoramic shot of the sunrise is included.
A lot of time went into these. Captured with my new Tamron 18-270 lens. Up on the Gallery page.
September 13th, 2009
Changes to panoramic pages
Panoramic images now have a smaller preview image above them which fits within the screen. A link was added to open the full size image in a new window. Then maximize the window for best viewing.
January 28th, 2009
New Panoramic Photo Album
New panoramic photos of views from my new place in Hachioji, Tokyo.
Up on the Gallery page.
January 27th, 2009
January 9th, 2009
New Snowboarding in Japan Info
Lot's of new info on the Japan Snowboarding page.
December 24th, 2008
New Photo Album and Updates
Theres a new photo album of a gecko that was on the outside of my blackened glass bedroom window. I've finished stitching some panoramics of the view from my new place, those will be up soon.
Also updated the site to display many little Twitter, etc. widgets on the right side of the Front page. And Facebook now automatically displays my Front page feed with pictures.
The story behind the creation of my Lego Stair Climber is finished on the Robotics page. I hope to get some video of my new humanoid robot up there soon.
December 16th, 2008
VLC Multithreaded Batch Transcoder (Windows)
Here's a script to help encoding many files for your iPhone, iPod, PSP, etc.
It needs minor editing to work, but it should be possible for anyone to use...
Get it at the software page.
December 12th, 2008
Nintendo Family Basic
I completed setting up the Nintendo Family Basic section of the software page.
There's some programming help, video, images, and links with more info.
September 2nd, 2008
Long Time No See
Over three months and no updates to the site. Well...
I have completed my previous job teaching English in Katsunuma, moved to Tokyo and now develop 3D visualization software for a CT scanner.
There's a few new photo albums up so check them out!
For those of you following Wiiji, sit tight. Good things are on the horizon.
May 20th, 2008
Fujikiri Matsuri Pictures
I thought I lived in a quiet mountain area, but this festival unleashed a frenzy!
April 23rd, 2008
Wiiji Software Released
I've just released software which allows you to use Wii remotes easily on the Mac!
March 25th, 2008
Katsunuma Wine and Grape Festival 2007
From the yearly festival in Katsununma, Japan. There are pictures of the flaming gate and its surrounding fireworks.
So... no pictures of the drinking part of the festival. I took some pictures of the many booths of the festival in the previous year, so I'll post those eventually.
March 25th, 2008
Gross Dam Photos
Here's some photos I took 5 years ago at Gross Dam near Boulder, Colorado. They have some nice colors.
March 24th, 2008
Koshu City International Day
New photos in the gallery of the Koshu city International Day.
You'd expect that to mean there'd be international things to see. But it was actually foreign people doing Japanese things.
March 22nd, 2008
Tateyama and Tsurugidake Photos
The better photos from a hike I took up Tateyama and Tsurugidake have been uploaded to the gallery. There's some nice panoramic shots. This hike took us from Nagano to Toyama prefectures and lasted 2 days.
The 360 degree panoramic stitching turned out nice so I think I should make some sort of panoramic viewer in Flash. They don't fit into my gallery's format very well as they are.
March 13th, 2008
Akakura Snowboarding, Updates
I wrote up a quick guide to the good riding spots at Akakura Kanko in Niigata, Japan. It's on the snowboarding page.
The gallery format for individual picture views has been improved as well, and I fixed a couple of broken links here and there.
March 13th, 2008
Art Page Up
Check out the new art page!
There is only one sketch from Boulder for now, I hope to find some other material soon. Luckily for those of you who like to criticize art I found some photos of [nearly] the same view I was trying to draw.
Unrelated: I removed some pictures of student work that I had taken. Though it was funny to see the bad words they wrote into my blank comic worksheet, they are going to be looking at this site.
March 5th, 2008
Stair Climbing Robot Back-Story
I've been writing up the history of how I made the stair climbing robot on the robotics page.
It's pretty long, but interesting to see how a lot of seemingly unrelated stuff all came together in the end.
The story is still not completed, maybe about half done so far.
March 4th, 2008
New Animal Photos Up, etc.
I added animal photos to the gallery. Also added photos of some of my students' work. And, I updated the Only in Japan photos.
March 3rd, 2008
RSS Added, etc.
Upon request, I have added an RSS feed based on this page. Thanks Matt! And when I add new photo albums to the gallery, I'll be able to display their thumbnail to the left.
February 28th, 2008
Finally, I got pictures and video of my stair climbing robot up on the Robotics page.
February 27th, 2008
Absolutely huge updates.
I added a snowboarding page. I'm going to put guides up for going off-piste in Japan. I'll have videos online too. I started a YouTube account, but I won't be embedding the YouTube videos into this site. I'll put them up with another player.
Also, the navigation bar now actually tells you what page you are on. And the CSS continues to be improved.
February 22nd, 2008
I added another photo gallery of Katsunuma. This time from the winter.
Also, I started my robotics page, but it's still empty for now.
February 20th, 2008
The site has been updated to work with Google Analytics.
January 29th, 2008
New photo albums up. Old albums saw some corrections, too.
January 11th, 2008
Third feature for today
Photo pages now display aperture/exposure related information in the footer.
January 10th, 2008
Woohoo, two new features in one day.
Now you can view the gallery page as sorted by either the dates that the photos were taken, or by the dates that the albums were last modified.
January 10th, 2008
Another (pointless, but) cool update to the site. The above header image will change for each new session on this site. On the gallery page: I was thinking of making it so a mouse roll-over of an album would change the header to a random, cropped preview of the album... but unless I time-consumingly cached each preview on your computer beforehand, it would be laggy as it uploads the image to you real-time. On the other hand, it would give the header image an actual functional purpose. Is it worth doing?
January 10th, 2008
Please email me and let me know if the layout of this site should be changed.
January 7th, 2008
New photos have gone up!
