Recently I have been doing a lot of research into using LSTM for data compression (in cmix , lstm-compress , and tensorflow-compress ). In ...

My wife and I recently bought a house in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are getting solar panels installed on the roof of the house. In this...

A couple years ago I bought this neat mouse on Amazon . It is surprisingly useful. I can use it to remote control my computer from my bed....

Two years ago I made a post about a device called Avegant Glyph . I ended up investing in the Kickstarter. The estimated delivery during ...

Here are some details on how I put together my Raspberry Pi thermostat . My apartment's thermostat uses a very simple mechanism to c...

I connected a Raspberry Pi up to the heater in my apartment. Now I can control the heater over the Internet. Update: more details posted...

[ previous post ] Although Baka Analytics has stopped updating, Baka is still alive. The occasional gaps in the data were due to Baka c...

Today I worked on a small HTML5 project: http://www.byronknoll.com/go.html This is the board game Go rendered using metaballs .

Unfortunately the Kickstarter project I created did not get funded. Here is what the funding graph looked like: Today I released an open ...

I have released a new version of cmix . I have also migrated the code from a private Bitbucket repository to a public GitHub repository: htt...

I just launched my first Kickstarter project! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/411355421/battle-map-explorer

I have a pet hamster named Baka. Baka spends most of his free time running on a hamster wheel. I put together a device to track the hamst...

I have been attempting to do aerial photography with a GoPro. My first attempt was using a quadcopter (Parrot AR.Drone): Unfortunately t...

I just released cmix v7 . I spent a long time fixing a bug which caused cmix v6 to crash in Windows. For v7 I focused on improving image com...

During a meeting with some coworkers we started debating if it was possible to find a better meeting location. Given the starting location o...

I finally own a VR device: Google Cardboard . It works surprisingly well! I am using it with a Nexus 5, which has a nice display. Cardboar...

I recently started a fun activity called wargaming. Wargames are a set of computer science related challenges/puzzles. So far I have complet...

I recently beat GTA V , so I was looking for a new game to play. GTA V is the most expensive video game ever made and has amazing producti...

I have released a new version of my visibility polygon library . One of the constraints in the old version was that none of the input line...

I have released cmix version 3 . This version is over twice as fast, uses less memory, and gets better compression ratio.