Copenhagen day 2
Walking Tour Our first real touristy event was to take a walking tour. It was given to us by a guy who dressed as Hans Christian Andersen, who is something of a national hero...
Author: Shane Connelly
Copenhagen day 1
Arrival and Strøget After our major snafu with Norwegian Air, we took a train down to the city center and found our hotel. It was a great walk from the train station, as it...
Norwegian Air: The Worst Thing to Come Out of Europe Since the Black Plague
So to kick off our European travel experience, it’s worth going through our planned itinerary first. We found a flight on Norwegian Air one way to Copenhagen from Oakland with a layover in Stockholm for...
Populating users in Active Directory using Perl with OLE
Occasionally, I’ve had the need to populate sample users into an Active Directory for projects. There are, no doubt, other ways to do this that are simpler/more direct. For example, it’s likely incredibly easy...
San Francisco Scouring
Having an extra day of time off on Monday, I decided to spend some time relaxing and hiking around this beautiful city that I live in. I recently purchased a new camera, so I...
100 Project Euler problems solved
I finally passed 100 solved problems on Project Euler, an online math & programming “competition” of sorts. This puts me back in the top 100 perl programmers on the site! In a related note, I taught...
Stats – Hours Per Week
I found a neat report on the US Bureau of Labor Statistics website which outlines how people spend various hours of their day. I thought it would be neat to make a little comparison tool for this, to...
Foosball Robot
Overview Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision...
Antenna Design Genetic Algorithm
Background For certain classes of antennas, e.g. Yagi-Uda antennas, the design characteristics have no known “best case” numeric values. That is, if you want to design a Yagi-Uda antenna for a particular frequency, there...
Elliptical Filter
Elliptical filters are neat filters that have equiripples and very sharp frequency cutoffs. This is an application note I wrote for when/where you would use one. For more information, check out the elliptic filter page on Wikipedia.