Inexpensive Telecommuting robot

Recently I've been involved on a side project funded by my current employer to build an inexpensive telecommuting robot. I am proud to say that I have successfully completed this task and believe that I could sell it at a $500 price point. This is a full, tall robot that can be accessed via any machine as long as they are within a network. I will post more on this tomorrow with pictures and video.

Good night!

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VR vs AR - Possibility?

I've been pondering what I can do with the oculus rift goggles that is unique and entertaining. Interestingly enough, I had a dream of something that I referenced to as Alternate Reality. Virtual Reality puts you in a virtual environment while Alternate Reality modifies your current environment. I'll add this to the list of project Ideas as a thought. As far as making this work, I'm thinking that I would add bifocal cameras to the oculus rift glasses and create a program that pulls in visual data and renders content on to that virtual area. I know there was something similar created for phones in a 2D spectrum... I'm thinking we can do it on a 3D level. Alternatively, I was thinking I could the kinect to create a map of the room of which is uploaded to a computer, and the computer generates a map based on the objects and dimensions of the room.

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System Shock 3 Anybody?

I felt somewhat nostalgic last night and went back to play some of my older games. I then remembered that my all time favorite game System Shock was on my PC and I proceeded to play for a bit wondering how nice it would be for a System Shock 3.

I then asked my self, Why not create it your self?

After giving it some thought and doing research on the trademark and rights to the game, I've concluded that I can make it happen if I can find a team who is willing to spend the time to recreate this game. Assuming I have a team or at the very least someone who is familiar with blender and unity, I would first create a demo. I would then use the demo and create a new Kickstarter project show casing the demo and asking for funding. Once fully funded, I can purse the rights of the game as well as attempt to buy the trademark off EA or come up with some kind of additional funding on their part to get the game going.

I'll add this to my list of projects.. Couldn't hurt right?

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Ideas, Ideas, Ideas!

Greetings!

I've always been one to think outside the box and think of possible projects that can help the open source community. While driving during one of my long commutes to Ohio from Virginia, I began to think of something I describe as Project {X}.

The idea came to me when I was thinking of creating a game similar to angry birds. I thought to myself that while I can create all of the logic and server side code needed to implement this, I wouldn't be able to create any of the designs as I am not very good at making things "pretty" or "Eye-catching". I then sat and thought.. I wish there was a website where I can post my idea and if others liked it, they too would invest their time in polishing and making the Idea come to life.

Then it hit me that I can create this website! The website can be best described as GIThub for teams (Project Managers, Devs, Designers, DBA's, etc..)  rather than individual projects. A new comer to the site would come in, register and post their idea for everyone to see. A designer would come along and see this idea in which he would "apply" to be a part of the idea. A DBA and a project manager comes in and see the Idea and decide to do the same. Once the Team is formed, the group leader (Or Idea Holder) would assign roles and get cracking on the development of the Idea with tools provided by my site.

I'll add this to the Projects page and hopefully get interest from you guys to help me out!

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Documentation

Greetings!

Creating documentation can such a pain sometimes. Specially when the documents deal with web applications and you need to reference every single plugin you've used on a site. Perhaps there should be a push for an automatic documentation writer? Realistically, I can't imagine it would be that hard to implement as we reference plug-ins in a predictable manner such as <script src="etc..etc"></script>. I'll add this to my projects folder and see what I can come up with. Perhaps I can add a data attribute for my project to come in and sweep the application for anything that needs to be documented. Hm.. I'll need a template, this application can be a web app or I can create a console app..

Oh well, for those curious, I'm using the documentation found here

I'll add this as a possible To-Do Project and see if I can get anything created possibly based on this template.

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