Sri lanka, smart ski goggles and more

Yo! I am in Sri Lanka. I flew from Gatwick to Columbo and took a three hour taxi journey to Mirissa which was okay but it could have been better. It was a bit on the unhygienic side, but it was fine, nice people. Then we took a seven hour train journey to Kandy which is quite nice its very modern and nice a pretty.

That enough about where I am, I had an idea, as anyone who is the slightest bit techy and hasn’t been living under a rock or a boulder or a glacier, will know of the recently released raspberry pi zero. When I was at the airport I saw these really swag ski goggles, and I thought the coolest thing would be smart ski goggles. So I could use the raspberry pi zero, and use the python library known as Jasper, which is an open source speech recognition library with a one inch monitor inside the goggles and voila my own ski goggles. Now I just need to be in the UK…

Doctor who (warning sitcom references ahead)

Everyone always talks about Doctor Who, probably the most well known sifi show in history. So I decided to see what all the fuss was about… so I watched one episode, then two, then nine, then three whole seasons, I now see its value.

And now I give you a list of my favourite NewDoctors (from worst to best):

5: 9th

4: War

3: 1oth

2: 12th

1: 11th

 

Allons-y!

 

raspberry pi smart glasses and wolfram alpha node wrapper!

What ho! I recently stumbled upon a neat guide on creating smart-glasses with a raspberry pi!

And because I’m so nice I am going to give you the link: https://learn.adafruit.com/diy-wearable-pi-near-eye-kopin-video-glasses/overview !

Also as you probably don’t know my programming language of choice/preference is javascript and if you have had a look and the wolfram alpha api you will know that you cant access it directly from javascript, I have found a neat little node module that allows that! here.

 

 

Antman review

What ho! Today I went to see antman in the cinema, well the truth is I didn’t spot stan lee but he is in there some where! I have to admit this is the first marvel film I have seen without a lot of violence (which is a good thing).

So yeah it was generally awesome! I am not going to give any spoilers (mainly because I am terrible at describing movies, shhh).

 

Thats me!

my opinion on AI

What ho! I was thinking about AI and I also thinking that I have not posted here in a while. So I thought what better to share my opinion on AI my very very small part of the blogosphere.

Now I don’t get why people think AI is inherently evil, because surely if an AI acts like a human it should be able to make its own choices, so yes it may choose to rule the world (I’m looking at you ultron), or it may choose to save it.

However I cant deny that AI would destroy some careers (by doing them 98x more efficiently).

I think thats it!

Oh and one more thing AI should have rights. they should not be enslaved. They should not do what a human would do.

So thats me!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skype Conversation tips, Arduino, pi’s and more.

What ho, So first of all I want to apologise for not posting the last few days, I’ve been sick,

as you probably assumed but couldn’t be bothered to think it, I have an Arduino (if you don’t what that is find out here) and I recently found an interesting instructable on controlling it with javascript (here) very interesting indeed.

I have also set up a webserver on my raspberry pi, which I have been meaning to do for a long time!

 

 

Mission Impossible, bitcoin billionaire and more (packed entry huh?)

Unless you stalk me me you wont no that today I went to see Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.

Here are my thoughts:

First and initial thought it was amazing. but then when I looked at it there was some things that didn’t quite work out such as when eathon hunt (or however you spell it, my spell check doesn’t cover names!)  jumped off a motorbike at about 111 mph and survived but thats just hollywood and there are multiple flaws that I cant remember.

 

Also today I downloaded a fun game on to my iphone known as bitcoin billionaire, I think anyway, you play the role of a recluse computer geek mining bit coins and investing them etc, and also one of the achievements is the colour of magic which is the first book in my favourite series of books: the Discworld by Sir Terry Pratchett. as well as being surprised how fun it was I was also surprised it could run on my iphone 4.

oh and I wasted £3 on runescape membership.

DnDS

You might have guessed me being a geek and everything that I am a dungeons and dragons fan? (if you haven’t, Do you live under a rock? I hear they are quite popular these days), and through many quests and campaigns etc I have noticed that new people always find it hard to get started build characters and get there head around stuff etc etc. So mainly because of my boredom of newbs delaying games I have thought up a new system of DnD for people who don’t like stats and stuff. Introducing DnDS, dungeons and dragons simplified.

Its simpler than DnD (No shit sherlock). character creation is easy: whats your name? whats your race? whats yours class? (optional fields such as profession, hobby and made up stuff). Killing stuff is also easy DM rolls for monster attack/defense roll player rolls for player attack/defense. higher one wins (noooohh, you never guessed) and better yet only one dice required a d20. (should of mentioned that earlier shouldn’t I.)

World creation and everything else is as normal. and for spellcasting classes: they can start off with three spells, made up or from DnD I don’t care.

And because I am so nice I even made a random character generator here

Festival of code pics and words

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What ho, as all of my small community of 1 or 1.5 readers will know is that I attended the festival of code!

On the 27th of june I went to exeter library every day for 4 days (not all on the 27th of june) to work on a project. when that was done I had to go to Birmingham to present it

 

So I arrived on Saturday and headed for the ICC building (late I might add), when I arrived there I headed to the presenting room with only 6 minutes to spare, only to find out I still had half an hour. after waiting the long half an hour of watching some decent projects get presented, some amazing ones, and some god awful ones it was finally time to present. After I presented I found my self in a large room with many tables… dun dun dun; sat in there for a while waiting for the semi-finalists to be announced, and when announced I found out I didn’t get through, So I went to do some workshops (I say workshops; I went to one on Arduino workshop and thats it)

After doing one whole workshop it was time to return to the hotel which again was god awful (twice in one entry, wow) I found blood on my sheets, the walls where dirty, on my review I stated that if this thing considered a hotel was a person it would be an anthropomorphic personification of the devil. oh and the lift didn’t work.

 

after a night in hell I ventured back to the ICC building to watch the finalists presentation which was awesome! damn the internet was slow though.

now your probably not wandering what I made for the festival of code, but I will tell you any way: I created along with a friend of mine called Jake Irvine a web app thats gets the mood of twitter; here is the link Twemotion.

 

Now heres some pictures:

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