My interactive presentation on digital signal processing ( previous post with video) is now available on the web, at visual-dsp.switchb.org! More details, source code, etc. at the site.

(P.S. I'll also be at the next meetup, which is tomorrow, January 21, but I don’t have another talk planned. (Why yes, I did procrastinate getting this site set up ( Read more... )

I have really failed to get around to blogging what I've been doing lately, which is all software-defined radio. Let's start fixing that, in reverse order.
Yesterday, I went to a Bay Area SDR meetup, “Cyberspectrum” organized by Balint Seeber and gave a presentation of visual representations of digital signals and DSP operations. It was very well ( Read more... )

(I could say some meta-commentary about how I haven't been blogging much and I've made a resolution to get back to it and it'll be good for me and so on, but I think I've done that too many times already, so let's get right to the actual thing...)


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Yesterday I completely rewrote my resource embedding test to cover more cases (especially ones new in HTML5) and be more usable. In the likely event you're not familiar with it, it's a HTML document which embeds many types of resources (images, audio, other HTML, etc.) using all of the possible containers (
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My GLToyJS project now has a live instance so you can play with it without setting up your own server. Caveats: • I don't promise it will remain at this URL or that the parameter format won't change. • There is an automatic 5-minute-interval change to a new random effect which cannot be disabled (but you can undo it by going back). • It doesn't ( Read more... )

The draft-standard Gamepad API allows JavaScript in the browser to obtain input from connected gamepad/joystick devices. This is of course useful for games, so I have worked on adding support for it to Cubes.

This (about) is the only Gamepad API demo that I found that worked with arbitrary gamepads (or rather, the junk one I had around) rather ( Read more... )

Some new features in Cubes:

• An automated test suite. It’s hardly complete coverage, but at least it exists and so can grow. (I ended up going with Jasmine for in-browser testing. I’m not a big fan of the Englishy syntax, but it does the job reasonably well and has niceties like rerunning individual tests and adequate support for asynchronous tests ( Read more... )

Today I learned that there is a standard-DOM alternative to the convenient IEism element.innerText (a close relative of element.innerHTML): element.textContent.

It is slightly different, according to MDN: .innerText returns the visible text (omitting scripts and CSS-hidden text), whereas .textContent returns everything, more like walking the ( Read more... )

Based on the feedback I’ve received, I conclude that the white-screen/crash problem with Cubes is hardware/driver-specific and not very widespread. Since

• this is a hobby project and an experiment, not a Game to be Published,
• the problem looks hard to debug,
• I don't have a variety of machines to test on, and
• I replaced the MacBook Pro in question ( Read more... )

I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this month, and ever since then Cubes has crashed or otherwise misbehaved on my machine. However, I have only the one to test on, so I would like your help in figuring out what the extent of the incompatibility is - whether this is a GPU driver bug or something Cubes is doing wrong.

If you have a WebGL-capable ( Read more... )