Stonelinks

Ever wanted to use google imagery inside of a leaflet map? This is just a small example of a google maps imagery / base layers hosted inside…

Ever wanted to piss off your team by generating plausible (but fake) sounding bug reports? Then look no further! This guide will walk you…

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Wow! I love blogging so much already. Did you know that “despite its name, salted duck eggs can also be made from chicken eggs, though the…

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I had the opportunity to go to Google I/O last week. Overall not a ton of new announcements, 80% of everything was Android related and it…

As some of you may know, I have left Tokyo and the world of industrial robotics and am now in the midst of immersing myself in the world of…

I’ve been working on some new WebGL related projects for a 3d viewer and editor that targets robotics applications. My three.js fork All…

I came up with this fairly scary bash one liner that will periodically ssh into a machine that you have access to, take a screenshot and…

Update (9-18-2014): Turns out the FCC just ended up releasing all the data in bluk and other people have already cleaned it up and are doing…

Buttsoup is a silly little text to speech web chat thing I made a few months ago. It allowed me to familiarize myself with a few…

https://github.com/Stonelinks/jekyll-gettext-plugin As the friendly neighborhood web developer at MUJIN, one of my responsibilities is our…

A month ago my friend Rhys and I hiked up Mt. Major with my plane and his gopro and managed to get a pretty decent flight recording from the…

Stonelinks has been around since 2008. It is six years old as of this writing. I feel like that is a long time in internet years. It seems…

Back in November I had the chance to take a survey of all the different binpicking systems at the International Robotics Exhibition (IREX…

Update 07-07-2013: I’ve come up with an even newer iteration of my resume, see it here and the actual code that powers it on github here…

https://github.com/Stonelinks/Lite-Write A few months ago I came up with a quick and dirty way to write text documents. I’m calling it Lite…

Good news and bad news! The good news is that in the last month or so at RPI, my friend Drew and I were able to cobble together some…

Up until now, all my contributions to open source have been programs I have written, and as a general practice I like to make all my work…

I got really bored over the holidays and wrote a very naive sudoku solver in C++. Check out this gist to see it!

I finally have it working! Very excited as I write this. So glad spring break exists otherwise I’d never have the time for this. Long story…

The code needs a little more polish before I’m happy releasing it, but here is a demo video of the latest incarnation of the ‘bot doing some…

Hate excel? Why not have python take all the pain away! This should appeal to everyone out there who needs a quick way to analyze the…

https://github.com/Stonelinks/gmail-printsrv Another example of python being super useful. I found myself today with a need to network a…

RPI health and safety inspections did not take kindly to my door mounted Robo-Schwarzenegger. Apparently I’m not breaking any rules with an…

Home for the break! My brother asked me for help making a small electromagnet to bring into Boy Scouts for electricity merit badge. I of…

Looks like the kinks of my new two-server setup are not ironed out. I just got home from RPI and the old Dell is acting wacky at school. I…

I recently completed some much needed upgrades to the servers (hardware and software) that run Stonelinks. This has me very excited and has…

Suzanne has told me to stop working on the current iteration of the documentation as I had been writing it for an audience unacquainted with…

I’m using the documentation I’m writing for work at the Harvard-Smithsonain Center for Astrophysics as an excuse to learn LaTeX. For those…

LabVIEW is a necessary and constant evil with my work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, but sometimes it pulls through…

I don’t get to fool around with my own projects nearly as much as I would like, but this weekend I did devote a few hours to finishing up a…

I love nothing more in life than creating and tinkering with the stuff around me. Over the years, this love has taken many different forms…