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Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

A vocoder is basically a tool to turn any sound into something which can “speak”, some examples can be seen in this Collin's Lab episode about MIDI, or in this classic from the Kraftwerk (the vocoder effect starts at 1:06):

Whether you are planning to ask for a ransom, or joining the Daft Punk, or taking a time travel to the '70s: a vocoder is always handy.

I was watching a Knight Rider episode (namely from Season 3, Episode 1: Knight of the Drones) and I spotted some source code of a program listed by KITT.

Here are some notes about how to use the PS3 BD Remote Controller with raspbmc (raspbmc is an XBMC distribution optimized for the Raspberry Pi).

The mathematical model behind the JMP-rope, as for any rotating POV system, is the polar coordinate system.

The hardware of the first JMP-rope prototype is very simple:

Mix sport, technology and art and you get the perfect project.

I really enjoy art even though I am not much of an artist myself, I am definitely a technologist (more of a researcher of technology than a user TBH), and I've become a sports person too in the latest years, in particular I discovered how jumping rope can be a fun way to do cardio, way funnier than playing hamster on the treadmill; and each time I was jumping rope I started thinking about a tech project involving a jump rope.

Wire-wrapping is a very handy way to connect wires to PCB pins, especially in two scenarios:

1. As an alternative to soldering, in order to be able to easily recycle the components.
2. As an alternative to female jumper wires, in order to save some vertical space (sometimes jumper wire connectors are just too long).

If you have a jump rope with ball bearing handles you can use zip ties to hack them into one of those fancy “speed ropes”.

And yes, I am kind of into jumping rope these days.

Interesting text about English pronunciation: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité.

A due update to my AKOP “work”: a Debian and a Linux versions could not be avoided.