Many updates including:

• 4 new videos of the KHR-1HV. Also on YouTube.
• RoboCom software improved and available to download.
• UART information for Kondo products available.
• Hardware changes such as a final head and new feet.
• Initial site (videos, pictures) for new KHR-1HV + Roboard + ROS project.

Just uploaded a video of the KHR-1HV doing some face tracking.

Available here on my site, or here on YouTube.

I have been working on this robot since last November.

Features Include:

• Stereo Vision
• Gyro and Acceleration Sensors
• Bluetooth Communication
• Radio Control

Check it out here in the robotics section.

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.

New panoramic photos of views from my new place in Hachioji, Tokyo.

Up on the Gallery page.

More Snowboarding

Lot's of new info on the Japan Snowboarding page.

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.

It needs minor editing to work, but it should be possible for anyone to use...

Get it at the software page.

There's some programming help, video, images, and links with more info.

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.

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.

You'd expect that to mean there'd be international things to see. But it was actually foreign people doing Japanese things.

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.

The gallery format for individual picture views has been improved as well, and I fixed a couple of broken links here and there.

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.

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.

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.

Also, I started my robotics page, but it's still empty for now.

Photo pages now display aperture/exposure related information in the footer.

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.