09 F9 Blog - Random Technology Related Ramblings

how to use a gps watch xml and satellite photos

engadget.com has my how-to article about using a garmin forerunner 201 watch and xml to export a runner's tracks and place them over hi-res satellite photos. i am running 10 miles, in 10 cities over the next 10 weeks and will print out all the images for a little art project.

 

building a gameboy sp robot!
i'm working with charmedlab's new 150K xport 2.0 devkit, it includes xport 2.0 with 150K gates (3 times the logic resources) 16 mbytes of sdram and everything else in the standard devkit (cport cable, parallel port interface, software distribution and accessories). with the kit you can play around with real-time control, image capture/processing, video/audio codec, robotics, data logging/collection, user interface or console, interactive gaming, reconfigurable computing and gba coprocessing- all open source stuff too, neato. here's a pic of the kit on my desk.