About: John reverse engineered the firmware in all three Pure Digital disposable cameras and figured out how to connect them to home computers. While not technically a rocket scientist, he has designed hardware and software for satellites.
His latest project is a watch that plays pong (more information here). It's a little sick (it got zapped by static electricity), but it should be up and running for the faire.
Rockets: Model Rocket Video Camera
Watch a model rocket launch from the perspective of a miniature astronaut. Hack a disposable video camera to fly in a small kit-built rocket.
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I did a time lapse of our area.
Saturday:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Sunday:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Great job on the watch!
meadowlark - whoops, that was a misunderstanding. The score is the time! What I was talking about was re-drawing the score on the screen... it only needs to be redrawn if the ball crosses over it -- otherwise, it would leave a trail of black dots where the "erased balls" were drawn. The choice was to do this all the time (which slows the ball down and costs energy), or do it just when the ball passes over the score (which takes about a dozen bytes of code to check for tis condition, but I ran out of memory to do this).
The watch was working intermittently this week & it's hard to debug what's wrong with so many small parts soldered to the board. I'll try a software patch to ignore the "low battery" signal. And, of course, the next version will have much more static protection.
I think you mentioned that the you didn't want the software to update the score if it wasn't necessary. So I thought instead if the score was the time of day, you'd have a hit on your hands. That would be a money maker.
very nice pong watch!!! impressive :)
