Sonny eats salt and hot sauce for forty dollars

Copperband butterfly - taken with a Sidekick II....

Under actinics. The tentacles seem healthy, but the mouth is open ... Photo was taking with a cell phone (sidekick II), so the quality isn't what it could be. Hope to grab a few 'real' pictures shortly...

Hard to see, but that little white dot is Fiona Apple, performing live at the Greek in LA.

It's been a while since I've posted any videos, so we'll pull up a really old one. While in college, I took a robotics course where we were tasked with creating an interesting robot of some kind. Together with 2 teammates (Luke Hunter and Kyle Kuypers), I created the contraption above.

Essentially the robot is three components:
1) A paintball gun with a low-light camera mounted to the barrel
2) A microcontroller that powered a pan-tilt head (for aiming the gun) and an electronic trigger (luckily, this was a feature of the gun - we just wired into the system)
3) An application written in C for Linux (complete with OpenGL visualization) that read from the camera, found movement, aimed, and eventually fired.

When placed in 'automatic' mode, the camera could aquire a single moving person walking at normal speed, predicted their speed, 'catch up' to them as they walked, and fire almost a round per second.

Definitely a cool toy for anyone with some spare parts laying around.

Relaxation

Starting a new reef tank... This is just starting out, 24 gallons, 20 pounds of live sand, 15 pounds of live rock from the Marshall Islands...