I made a barndoor tracker based on the directions here. http://www.garyseronik.com/?q=node/52 I made a lot of mistakes I’m still trying to get the most out of the tracker, but here is the basic layout. The only major change I made was to use
I took another stab at Jupiter after reading some more tutorials on stacking in Photoshop. These were generated at ISO 800 with 1/60sec shutter speeds This time instead of using prime focus methods I used eyepiece projection + a 25mm eyepiece. This gave a bit better zoom but I feel
I took some more shots of the moon last night. This one came out pretty well. I’m getting much better with the focus, but I’m still having some trouble getting the right exposure.
I also tried out a shot of the Moon. This is a prime focus shot with a Canon 70D + Orion XT6 as well. In order to get the camera to focus it required a 2x barlow piece attached to the end of the T-Adapter. Due to the 2x barlow piece
My first photo with the new telescope. It wasn’t a great day for visibility, and I am still figuring out the best way to connect the camera to the telescope for these kinds of shots. This is a prime focus shot with a Canon 70D + Orion XT6 newtonian reflector.
I was going through some backup folders and found some games I had written in high school. I stumble across these every now and then and they always bring back a sense of nostalgia.. In my high school CS class we weren’t allowed to play games on the computers
This is How you Die is a new collection of stories revolving around ‘The Machine of Death.’ A sequel if you will, but this new collection feels like it has a more si-fi feel. The Machine of Death didn’t have many stories that pushed the envelope, most of the
Here are some of my notes and how to implement Google Play Services In App Billing v3 with a LibGdx game. I just implemented removing ads for my game, so that is all I am covering. I’m going to focus on how to integrate with LibGdx and not very
I wanted to add a tutorial mode to Word Hive because I noticed some aspects of the game weren’t very obvious. There were some frustrating aspects of adding dialog boxes so I wanted to share some of my solutions. As always the documentation pages are very great resources * Scene2d.
I have started working on a new game mode. Survival Mode starts with an empty board and tiles will fall every second. The game ends when the board is full, and the goal is to survive as long as possible. At each level the tiles will fall faster, and words
The Machine of Death is collection of short stories which were all written around one idea. There is a machine that can tells you how you are going to die, but nobody knows how it works, and the answers are frustratingly vague. So if you get ‘Old Age’ then you
I released Word Hive to the play store! It was fun making and releasing my first game and learning libgdx. I’m excited to see how it will be received, but I’m a little nervous that people will say it sucks! Download it on the Google Play Store!
This is one of the best things I’ve read in a while. http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
This book showed up on my recommendations from Amazon. I like the painting The Scream, and after read a quick synopsis of the book I decided to try it out. It’s a very short novel, and it feels like it could have started life as some ‘creative writing prompt’
I think Count to a Trillion might be a decent Space Opera, unfortunately I read it at the wrong time. I was fresh off of reading ‘The Wanderer’ and I had a bad taste in my mouth over the genre. I needed to get away big idea space opera for
Oh boy, The Wanderer. This was the last book I read in 2012 and boy did I go out on a dud. I picked this book up at the used book store while I was browsing around. I had never heard of it or of Fritz Leiber, but it was