Tony is a Geek

Yeah, yeah, I know I'm a little late to the game with this one...but....now most of the bugs have been ironed out, it's a good time to check it out! https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/05/10/launching-3d-game-kit-explore-and-learn-unity-in-3d/ I was using an "old" version of Unity, I think it was 2018.2.xxx and when I added the 3D-Game-Kit asset, I received lots of errors about namespaces missing etc... after a bit of searching, I saw a load of workarounds and a variety of posts and I was about to give up and switch to using Unreal Engine, then I thought...I'll give it one last go.... That's when I decided to upgrade to Unity 2018.3.3f1 and then added the 3D-Game-Kit as an asset - and voila! it just worked.  I worked very well in fact and I'm using a 2013 Macbook Pro. Check it out and walk through the tutorial, I was very surprised at just how simple they've made this: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/3d-game-kit admittedly it is hid...

You hear reports that a tiny bit of debris the size of a coin can punch a hole straight through metal and then you wonder just how does the International Space Station avoid the daily barrage of debris without major incident.  That raises an eyebrow of curiosity itself, then you start wondering, just how much "stuff" is floating around outside this little planet of ours... A quick duck-duck-go search later and I found this great little website:   http://stuffin.space/ http://stuffin.space/?intldes=1958-002B&search= well, if I was looking for a parking space from space, I think I'd try a different planet, this one looks like it's going to be far too difficult to approach successfully........ might explain the decline in UFO sightings ;-)

All about Robots...in one single place.... All about Robots. Did I mention, this is the GO TO place for Robots. Go now.  Do as your robotic overlords tell you.  Go..... https://robots.ieee.org/ https://robots.ieee.org/

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I do, of course...as I have my original version in the cupboard (over there), I have the smaller version that has a screen attached to it , so no need for a TV and of course I have the PSOne wallet :-) I also have the Net Yaroze too....yep, the developer edition...(ah, I miss the days of coding games in "C" directly and not using Games Engines like Unity or UnReal)......and I have some PSPs that I actively use for playing UMDs and the odd game I have the PSX /  PPSSPP  emulators running on my OpenPandora and my lubuntu linux laptop as well as a RetroPie that I built with a proper joystick.... Well, it looks like Sony has gotten all nostalgic too....and is releasing a small version for Q4 : https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-classic/ (it's amusing that my waistline has gone the opposite way in that timeline!) It does make you wonder if it is just a Raspberry Pi inside there or whether Sony actually built their own smaller board f...

I've been here before, but I think I was a bit too early.... http://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2017/05/babies-first-computer-quantum.html However, I'm pretty sure that this is the place to start to move over into. If you think about the limitations we have today in relation to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, it's a bit like looking at the limitations of the horse&cart and having the vision to see the Quantum Sports car ( okay, not the best evolutionary step, but a vision none the less ) During my day job, I've seen a lot of people working away delivering various Machine Learning services, such as " chat bots ".  They are all super excited that they are going to really make a difference and help out their fellow human beings to "get things done". Then they release their baby into the wild and well, it gets a whole lot of abuse and gets condemned for being "dumb", for not being able to do the "simplest of thi...

Not an exhaustive list, but a very good one to skim through..... If you take nothing extra away from this, at least the ` NODE_ENV=production ` should be applied (3 times faster running) CHECK IT OUT HERE

Having a little bit of an internet wander over lunch, whilst at a customer site in London, I stumbled over this great resource.  Obviously, it raised an eyebrow for me as it's the next step up from Critter-bot :-D   ( I did say that I would wander off on the scope, didn't I...well, I'll finish the basic version first before venturing onto this project, I promise ) So checkout the interactive web page here that allows you to "drive" a virtual rover around: https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/ Then, select the 2nd [O] dot on the right-hand side and you'll see it switch from the official Rover to the one you can build!  Select the 3rd [O] dot to get to the instructions..... Well, that'll just take you to the Github repo here:  https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover The really good thing about this is that they have decided to use a Raspberry Pi as the "brain". Something we all have knocking around.  It looks like the motors ...

Apart from rebuilding my "old" Dell latitude 1501 (from about 2005) and breathing new more than capable life into it with a lubuntu installation (that is actually pretty awesome), I set about making this with my trusty new soldering iron: Yes, yes, those are pistons that those chips are going to be controlling...okay, maybe not... Mounted up on top of a Raspberry Pi Zero W...ready and waiting for me to write the code for them to do something.  Maybe next week... I'll also do a write-up of all the steps I've taken (there has been a lot of fiddling, screwing up and redoing going on), to get espeak / pocketsphinx and webcams to work consistently.