https://evan.new-schmidt.com/ Recent content on Evan's Cool New Internet Site Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:41:23 -0500 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/piping-portable-pixmaps/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:41:23 -0500 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/piping-portable-pixmaps/ TL;DR: You can pipe PNM images, directly into FFmpeg. I enjoy the Advent of Code (AoC) puzzles1, but I usually can’t keep up in real-time in December. Instead I like to come back to them whenever I want a break and try to learn new programming languages, data structures, and patterns of programming. Many of the problems are grid-based, with ascii-art diagrams, like Day 18 of 2018: The lumber collection area is 50 acres by 50 acres; each acre can be either open ground (. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/second-guessing-a-password/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/second-guessing-a-password/ Every now and then a password doesn’t work. I’ve copy/pasted them wrong, wrote down the wrong version when creating an account, and sometimes annoying websites actively prevent me from pasting into or autofilling the password field. Very rarely a password doesn’t work until I reset it. I usually chalk this up to having the wrong one written down, but sometimes I suspect the password requirements have changed from when I created it in an incompatible way. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/organic-maps-gsoc-2023/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/organic-maps-gsoc-2023/ This summer I took part in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) program, working with the open-source project Organic Maps and mentored by Alexander Borsuk. Organic Maps is an mapping app available on Android and iOS, similar to Google/Apple Maps, but it uses data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), a community-maintained map of the world that anyone can edit a la Wikipedia. It also works without an internet connection and doesn’t send your location to any servers. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/organicmaps-gsoc-2023-proposal/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/organicmaps-gsoc-2023-proposal/ What follows is my proposal for Google’s Summer of Code program under the Organic Maps organization. Background Organic Maps is an offline mapping app that uses data based on Open Street Maps (OSM). Sections of the map are downloaded once by users and updated as needed. OSM location data can link to Wikipedia and Wikidata (a structured data graph, which links back to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects). Organic Maps includes any linked Wikipedia article texts in the downloaded map data, which users can read in the app without an active internet connection - especially useful while traveling or exploring new areas with little or inconsistent internet access. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/large-format-photography/ Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/large-format-photography/ https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/simplecv-venv/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:25:24 -0400 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/simplecv-venv/ If you, like me, for reasons we don’t need to go into, are trying to setup the python package SimpleCV inside a virtual environment on a late-2019 Ubuntu-ish development environment and having trouble, this may be helpful. What ended up working for me was a variation of this section in the simplecv README, which I’ll walk through here with a bit of context. SimpleCV, as it’s name suggests, aims to provide a simpler interface to the popular OpenCV library for computer vision (CV) tasks. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/collascii/ Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/collascii/ Collascii is a terminal-based text editor designed to make ASCII art - rather than the limiting insertion-based model that most text editors today, collascii treats documents as a grid of characters, similar to image manipulation programs like Photoshop, but for text! With collascii, you can type forwards, backwards, upwards, and downwards; paint with characters using your cursor; and draw lines and arrows across a canvas. Additionally, collascii is collaborative, so you can share a canvas with your friends and see their changes live, ala Google Docs. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/experimenting-with-ascii-photos/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/experimenting-with-ascii-photos/ For my first art project as part of my Pennies and Personal Art Projects ISR, I’ve decided to work with ascii images made with my Panasonic KX-P1124 dot-matrix printer. On Tuesday I brought in some pieces I made and pinned them up in the Library to share with Robert. This past week I finished making an image-to-ascii converter (source available on GitHub) to generate images, calibrated for the printer’s built-in monospace Courier font. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/pennies-personal-art-projects/ Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/thoughts/pennies-personal-art-projects/ This semester I’ll be undertaking an Independent Study, or ISR-G, that I’m particularly excited about. What follows is the proposal I submitted: Pennies and Personal Art Projects 4-Credit ISR-G Plan of Study/Assessment Plan Robert Wechsler is currently an Artist in Residence at Olin. I’ve already some spent time working with him for the Remaking Education conference, and I think I have a lot to learn from his perspective, experience, and work. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/cardboard-foundry/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/cardboard-foundry/ I made this with Matt Beaudouin-Lafon, my (older) sibb at Olin. Over the course of a week, we drafted, fabricated, and assembled a 1:100 scale model of the Foundry, a building that the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority is turning into a community space. The finished model, sitting by the main entrance of the Olin Library. We designed the model in Onshape, and built it out of laser-cut single-ply cardboard and glue. https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/boardbot/ Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://evan.new-schmidt.com/things/boardbot/ For Olin’s Principles of Engineering Course, I designed and built a whiteboard drawing robot with a team of four other students. Over the course of the six weeks we spent on the project, I fulfilled various software, hardware, design, and management roles. A documentation website is part of the final course submissions, which is available at https://scrumbledeggs.github.io. The business end of the project. All of the components of the final design.