Buster minutes from 2012/09/06
James got his device up an running. It clicked along speedily. Eric is only taking 7 credits this semester. Peter taught us how to shutdown. Quitting X still leaves us at a command prompt. Eric and electricity are like this. First goal: create an OpenGL/GLSL sandbox like http://glsl.heroku.com. Second goal: install PBS. Peter says Condor instead. […]
HNRS 304.503 Lecture 2 – Introductions
Agenda lab next week posting on the blog share introductions discuss chapters 1 and 2 Outside Notes http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/101220fa_fact_paumgarten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9GpQ21uEmQ TODO Read for Wednesday chapters 3 and 4. Haiku
HNRS 304.503 Lab 1 – Xtranormal
It’s dangerous to jump into the technical aspects of a game before thinking critically about its plot and its characters. Today, we’ll remove ourselves as much as possible from the technical and write an animated dialog using Xtranormal. This won’t be interactive, but you will draw on the same elements you’ll need to write a […]
HNRS 304.503 Lecture 1 – Game on
Welcome to Honors 304.503, Digital Game Development. Let’s start with a little game. It’s a two-player dice game with really simple rules. Each player gets a 12-sided die. The game has 100 rounds, or more if you have time. In each round, both players roll. Whoever rolls a 12 — let’s call the game Duodeciduel […]
CS 491 Lecture 2: Activity and View
Before this class Everyone Install the Android SDK. Don’t forget Eclipse and the ADT plugin! Watch your A lesson or B lesson, details of which were sent to your UWEC account. Come to class with two things: a quarter sheet of paper with two questions and two connections/observations and your teaching outline. Bring your laptop […]
CS 491 Homework: Mobile Web
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Goldenrod crab spider
I think I’d read in the book Made By Hand by Mark Frauenfelder about a gentleman who said the minute you drive off your farm, the rest of the day is shot. I agree. We’ve been trying to stick around the acreage on Saturday mornings and enjoying the land that we have. We don’t want to […]
American Pelecinid wasp
Shortly after we moved in to our home, we had a long-tailed flying insect land on our screen door. I thought to myself, “We just moved to this place. Let’s get to know our neighbors.” So, I snapped its picture and went looking to see what it was: It turns out our neighbor is an […]
Gathering hardware
Our Raspberry Pi boards don’t do anything yet. We need some accessories. This afternoon, Peter taught me everything he knows about hardware, and we ordered these things to build our bramble: CyberPower CP-H720P High-speed Hub. We wanted something like this to provide a central power source that can plug into a standard outlet. Seven boards […]
CS 491 Homework: Nogramming
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