Friday, September 4, 2015

Fifty autonomous planes simultaneously in the air

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I've been pretty quiet on this blog for a while; some of my more recent posts have alluded to an autonomous aircraft project that...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

UDP binding and port reuse in Linux

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A recent technical challenge required me to dig deeply into how UDP ports are "bound" - that is, reserved or allocated - in the Li...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

A Python ROS bridge to MAVLink-based autopilots

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My main project over the past few months has been developing a secondary controller (some call this a "companion computer;" we usu...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Multiple AR.Drones from a single computer using the ardrone_autonomy ROS package

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I'm currently working with a small graduate student team on centrally controlling a group of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters or "quads...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Weekend Diversion - an HTTP interface to mplayer using Python and Flask

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Author's note: I'm currently collaborating with a friend over at AutisTech.org on finding or creating a video playback solution wit...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Forcing a higher MSS to improve TCP performance on links with asymmetric MTUs

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An interesting networking problem was recently posed to me. As context, suppose two computers, call them “A” and “B”, are networked together...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Weekend Diversion - Conway's Game of Life using ncurses

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Seeking a bit of for-fun programming for the weekend and an excuse to refresh myself on the basics of ncurses , I decided to write my own sm...