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Hackfest 1100000

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:27:39 -0500

Drew:
    Says: CCP Games has a new office in Atlanta
    (they make a python-based mmorpg)
    finished mural for his daughter's room,
    switched to mercurial for source control
Mark:
    wrote a python macro!
    returns a hashtable of all variable bindings at the return point of a func
    ported accelerator to python, learned setuptools,
    wrote a wrapper to make pyglets looks like nodebox, porting sketches
    leading Martin through Appcelerator

Senior Seminar / Final Quarter Chapter 3

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:55:54 -0500

Hello Everyone. My senior seminar presentation is on Wednesday of next week. Here is my current progress:

Senior Seminar:
I have 16 slides in a power point presentation, and a written outline of what I want to talk about. This weekend I'm going to go home and put the finishing touches on the presentation by adding pictures, and maybe creating some example waveforms.
While I still don't feel like an expert on the Fourier Transform I feel like I have definitely learned something, and it will certainly be an informative talk to anyone who hasn't learned anything about DSP or related topics. I am looking forward to it. I'm going to wear a tie.

Senior Seminar / Final Quarter Chapter 2

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:39:50 -0500

This week has been busy, but rewarding.

Senior Seminar:
   This week I met with my professor on Wednesday. I showed him a possible outline. He thought it was too much for a 30 minute talk, so I am pairing down the focus for the talk to just the Fourier Transform.
    I began reading a book entitled "The Discrete Fourier Transform" by D. Sundararajan. It is pretty clear so far, and seems to be a good starting point.
    I started making power point slides on the Sampling Theorem before I met with my professor, so I will have to go back and edit the presentation.

Senior Seminar / Final Quarter Chapter 1

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:24:48 -0500

Hello everyone. I'm Mike. I'm studying mathematics at University of California at Santa Cruz. This is my last quarter and I have a talk that I have to give, and a senior project that I have to do. The idea of these posts will be to track my progress on this project, and my progress in my other classes. I hope that this will help motivate me to do my very best in my last year in university.

Here is the class rundown in order of difficulty:
   Senior Seminar
   Real Analysis
   Latin 2

Here is the broad view:
   Senior Seminar:

About: Details

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:32:06 -0500

Why

Generally the order goes "who, what, where, when, why", but I think that this one is the most important, so its right up here at the top. Why we do atlHack is a complicated topic, and it has its own page. Here's the short version:

Computing isn't a nerd sport anymore. You probably own an iPod, might check the news on your laptop at the local coffee shop, and own a car with more than twenty computer processors in it (the days of the gear-head are gone - today's car tuner is part computer geek). Computing is a culture: a culture of artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, industrialists, consumers, scientists, and philosophers.

atlHack stickers in Macon

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:29:41 -0400

If you happen to live in Middle Georgia and want an atlHack sticker, there are a few of them on the hand-outs table at the back of the Joshua Cup near downtown.

Hackfest 10010 Mortem

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:34:31 -0500

Hackfest 10010: January 19, 2006
(no notes last week, but there was a meeting)

Since Last Time:
-Vinny:
Soldered a serial port to WRT54g.
Using PyOgre to enable texture manager commands.
Designed a game involving claiming territory in schools (w/ Graham).
-Luke
Modified Linux Kernel to support kb and mouse - media keys were unrecognized (USB human interface system). Translated them into the valid keyspace, produced unique events, then added entries to custom xmodmap.

Atlhack Podcasts

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:31:44 -0500

Links to Atlhack podcasts go under this page.

Hackfest Podcast

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:19:37 -0500

This week's hackfest was brought to you by the letters M and P and the number 3! Our first "podcast".

About: Why

Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:44:20 -0500

This is probably the most important question in your tour...

Why Did You Start atlHack?
There are a lot of good reasons for starting atlHack, but there are two really big, glaring ones that need to be tackled here:

There is no reason for computing to be a solo activity. People are social; computing should be social. To this end, we (make sure to shower,) meet up every week to talk to others face to face, drink coffee (Octane is now selling beer as well), and write about what we do. These are normal, everyday things that are surprisingly uncommon at GeorgiaTech, especially in the CoC. Come, normalize yourself - you'll be a happier person.

About atlHack

Tue, 30 May 2006 02:00:54 -0400

a short introduction to atlHack...

Hackfest 100 Mortem

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:14:43 -0400

15 Sept 2005

Where is Everybody?
luke is contracting in reno
titus is dogsitting
ben garrison is sleeping
others said they'd be here, but they did not show

Since Last Time:
Vinny-
-poked around looking for scenegraphs
-panda3d would be good, but no Mac (sadly)
-options are ogre, and crystal space (more of a game engine)
Graham-
-nothing on Mused
-been working on SWIMM, trying to get MARSYAS to run on win32

This Time:
Vinny-
-play with Croquet (notes that it's in Squeak- why it is so slow)
-wants to render words
Graham-
-get segmentation working
-refine to sample accuracy

God Tower is a Very Difficult Puzzle Game

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:37:43 -0400

God Tower is a very difficult puzzle game. Each level presents you with an image, and the point of the game is to guess the riddle that the picture presents. You input the answer to the riddle ( all lowercase one word), and then you proceed to the next level. I only had enough patience to get to level five (with a hint on level 3.)

I learned about God Tower from jay is games. Jay runs a fantastic blog about web games and game design. If you're looking for something to burn some extra time, jay is games is a good place to start.

Tech Companies

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:37:03 -0400

Places where you can Do Your Thing. Hunt down the ones that interest you, or start your own!

Defense and Public Safety

Georgia Tech Research Inst. (GTRI)
Applied research in computing, signals, and many forms of engineering.

Digital Media

Interactive Media Technology Center
Formed during the campaign to bring the 1996 Olympics, they created a 3D multimedia presentation that positively conveyed the Atlanta's vision in the quest to be host. They continue to do mult