Benutzer:Amir

Amir Hassan?

At the HAR festival 2009
		Born:	1982
		Email	amir(at-symbol)viel-zu.org
		Languages:	German, English
		I'm in love with music, computers, my friends, linux, creating things, pyromantics, slow movies, challenges, existence and all the daring, beautiful and mind-blowing ideas to come.
		I like to use Java, C++, Perl, Shell/Script, Prolog, Linux, mplayer, VMs, fire, CNC mill, lathe, laser cutter, my blues harps, my hands

Projects

KallaBalla

• Automatically adjust the color space of distorted map tiles.
• Makes assumptions about logical color assignment using data from different zoom levels.

Status: Was fun - abandoned

Java	Java Advanced Imaging API

Salami Rocket

• Modeled, simulated and built a hybrid rocket motor with nitrous oxide and salami as propellant.
• Successfully ground tested.

Status: Requires investment and better weather

Geil-o-mat

Lathe

RockSim

C++

CNC Mill - Migration to EMC2

The CNC mill was initially operated using WinPCNC which turned out to be limited, error-prone and confusing.

• Researched alternatives and decided EMC2 to be the best candidate (open source, feature-rich and stable).
• Extracted physical parameters from the CNC and configured EMC2.
• Created a custom Ubuntu live CD for evaluation.

Status: evaluated

Geil-o-mat

EMC2

Linux

Battle For Wesnoth

• Created several maps
• Wrote an AI for survival maps using formularAI

Status: done

Wesnoth Markup Language

FormulaAI

Cross Platform/Open Source - Laser Cutter Driver

The Metalab Laser Cutter (Epilog Legend 36Ext) is shipped with a windows-only driver which needs to be operated from Corel Draw. In addition job optimization is insufficently implemented and might even lead to undesired results.

• Reverse engineered the PCL based job format
• Implemented cups backend
• Wrote a postscript printer description
• Implemented optimization algorithms avoiding problematic cutting order and reducing job duration.

Status: alpha

Laser Cutter

C++

STL

Boost C++ Libraries

CUPS

Postscript

PPD

PCL

HPGL

Hack-A-N900

In the course of Metalab's participation in the Nokia App Forum i explored the N900 device. The recommended development environment, a VM image provided by the Maemo project turned out to be unready and undocumented.

• identified problems and figured intentions
• upgraded, cleaned up and fixed it

Status: In progress/stalled - basically working though qemu's limited support for ARMel still prevents productiv use

Virtual Machine

Linux

Gnu Compiler Collection

Scratchbox

Gstreamer Fun

Media stream tinkering.

Status: Never ending

Java

Linux

JNBD

JNBD - A transparent compressed network block device daemon

JNBD is a NBD daemon implementation in java. But instead of serving an actual block device it transparently compresses blocks into files. Its primary use is to serve a read/write compressed storage device in a platform independent manner (on the server side!) over a network. Any filesystem can be setup on a jnbd instance without the need for the actual filesystem to support RW compression.

Status: Beta

Java

NBD

Workshops

• How to CNC using Open Source Software
• How to create your own Custom Live CD
• Ruby for Beginners
• Shell/Scripting for Beginners
• Maemo/N900 Development - Getting started