Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

SFXR- Free sound effects for Flash games!

Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:55 No Comments

Here’s the thing, I love programming. I love the whole process of writing code and building a functional program by speaking a language the computer will understand. However, I really do not like painstakingly drawing art one little image at a time. On top of that, I have no idea how to generate sound effects [...]

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Sunday Status: MIT’s New Toy and BW Science Labs Goes Global

Monday, October 19, 2009 3:25 No Comments

GlobalThose of you who know me, know how much I love MIT. Hey, who doesn’t? The first Rapid Prototyping machines came from them, along with the first robots to learn like a human child, and having an on-campus nuclear reactor is pretty darn cool too. MIT unveiled their newest toy this week, a robot that [...]

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Woot! Woot! I Won the Digital Open Competition!

Friday, October 16, 2009 2:58 1 Comment

This is usually the time where I’d post a Theoretical Thursday on my thoughts and ideas, however today something awesome happened that merits overwriting theories. I won Sun Microsystems’s and IFTF’s international youth competition, the Digital Open. I won a laptop, a video camera, and a bunch of other cool things. The Boing Boing Media [...]

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In Honor of Nerd Day: Some Crazy Math Problems.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:59 No Comments

Today was Nerd day at my school. For many, this day promotes new possibilities in wild apparel, and for others it presents no change. However, to honor the spirit of Nerd day, I thought I’d post some problems from this year’s National Mathematics competition. I originally had a packet of problems from my school’s math [...]

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Teaching yourself ActionScript: Books I recommend

Saturday, October 10, 2009 2:51 No Comments

I’ve been using Flash and ActionScript (never forgetting JAVA, PYTHON, and all my other favorite languages of course) since late this summer, and I’ve been surprised as to how quickly I’ve learned it. It’s a great feeling, knowing that you can achieve something without having to have someone hold your hand all the way through. [...]

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