Benutzer:Amir
Amir Hassan?
 At the HAR festival 2009 | |||
| Born: | 1982 | ||
| 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
