post Basilar V2 – Procedural cities from web sites, with full C# source

Filed under Code, Videos by Iain (4:04 pm, January 16th, 2010)

Kicking off 2010, here’s a new release of Basilar, my C# procedural city-building from-web-pages experiment.

Basilar, 3D web browser

Read on for more pretty pics, video, and binary/source download.

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post A homebrew delta wing slope soarer

Filed under Electronics by Iain (3:22 pm, November 20th, 2009)

A coroplast 38″ wingspan delta wing slope soarer for 2-channel elevon control.

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Read on for more pics, and all the tasty links you need to make your own.
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post Homebrew micro RC planes

Filed under Electronics, Videos by Iain (2:49 pm, November 20th, 2009)

Not yer granddad’s RC plane construction. Lithium-polymer batteries and brushless electric motors mean no more noise or messy fuel and allow really miniature construction.

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post Homebrew digital microscope

Filed under Electronics by Iain (9:15 pm, November 18th, 2009)

This is a fun little project I finished a few evenings ago; a homebrew 500x digital microscope for all your biohacking needs, made from an old webcam found in the trusty junk box.

microscope

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post Spark-gap Tesla Coil

Filed under Electronics, Videos by Iain (6:35 pm, November 18th, 2009)

This was a couple of years ago. I never got round to posting it here at the time and the video’s a bit rubbish. It’s much prettier in real life! But seeing as I’m going through the backlog, why not. For some reason the camera would only capture half the streamers – it would be fine half a second, then go streamer-blind for half a second. Likewise it would only show the lighting of the flourescent tube at 2:01 intermittedly, although it was lit constantly. Very wierd. Quantum effects?

Hmm, that topload’s none too impressive either.

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post Simple, educational C# Pathtracer

Filed under Code by Iain (7:42 pm, November 7th, 2009)

Following on from my simple C# raytracer, here’s the same codebase adapted as a pathtracer.

simple-csharp-pathtracer

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post Simple, heavily commented C# raytracer

Filed under Code by Iain (5:26 pm, August 25th, 2009)

Here’s a little educational recursive raytracer I wrote recently to teach a friend the fundamentals.

simpleray

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