For my Dancing Monkeys Accelerated project, we were required to use Git for version control and host code on GitHub. As a person who has always preferred SVN (for its linear/incremental nature), and have only had experience with Google Code and SourceForge, setting up a new GitHub repo was a new experience. And so, for future reference, I document the process here. In this tutorial, we install msysgit and TortoiseGit and host code on GitHub.

This was a weekly discussion topic post I made for my language studies class, EALC 169: Advanced Japanese Popular Culture (i.e. the anime studies and analysis class). The original topic was the discussion of the book, Beautiful Fighting Girl by Tamaki Saito. The following is a rant comparing the top voted animes of 1997 and 2011 and how Saito’s “beautiful fighting girl” theory fits in (or doesn’t) today.

IKEA’s Detolfs are arguably the cheapest glass display cases you’ll find around but with one major issue: there are only 4 shelves. For most collectors, 4 shelves is far from enough to display all your awesome figures. Each shelf is also pretty deep, so filling them normally would only result in the back figures being blocked from the front. And because each shelf is so tall, there’s a lot of empty space. The easy solution: make more shelves! By creating a second, elevated “shelf” in the back using baseball card cases, you will now be able to display an entire …

A day late but oh well. Happy New Years from Keripo! Since the last update quite a bit has happened but here’s the rough plan for 2012. There will be two projects: Beats2: Prototypes and Beats2. In a nutshell, I decided to make Beats2 development a part of my senior design project for university (think “undergraduate thesis”), the result of which will be a paper entitled “Designing Rhythm Game Interfaces for Touchscreen Devices”. Prototypes will be a demo app that will be used for conducting a study comparing various rhythm game interfaces (i.e. think DDR vs Beatmania IIDX vs DJMAX …

For my ESE 519 ”Real-time Embedded Systems” (University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2011) final project, I worked in a three-person team with Monica Lui and Faqin Zhong on a hardware project dubbed “BomberNome”. The original project requirement was to make use of the ESE lab’s stash of monome boards in a creative and fun way. It turned out, however, there weren’t enough actual monome boards lying around (i.e. boards with each grid unit also connected to a switch and LED) but there were plenty of LED boards, so we instead decided to just hook up a bunch of these LED boards …

Downloads All Downloads (Mirror) Files: – dn-costumes-v11-Resources-cn.zip – Required – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-cl_flail.zip – Flail – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-cl_mace.zip – Mace – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-cl_shield.zip – Shield – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-cl_wand.zip – Wand See the NA Current Armors thread for cross-checking costume names.

Downloads All Downloads (Mirror) Files: – dn-costumes-v11-Resources-cn.zip – Required – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-ar_bigbow.zip – Longbow – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-ar_crossbow.zip – Crossbow – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-ar_smallbow.zip – Shortbow See the NA Current Armors thread for cross-checking costume names.

Downloads All Downloads (Mirror) Files: – dn-costumes-v11-Resources-cn.zip – Required – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-wa_axe.zip – Axe – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-wa_gauntlet.zip – Gauntlet – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-wa_hammer.zip – Hammer – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-wa_sword.zip – Sword See the NA Current Armors thread for cross-checking costume names.

Downloads All Downloads (Mirror) Files: – dn-costumes-v11-Resources-cn.zip – Required – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-so_book.zip – Grimoire – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-so_orb.zip – Orb – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-so_puppet.zip – Puppet – Weapons/dn-costumes-v11-so_steff.zip – Staff See the NA Current Armors thread for cross-checking costume names.

Downloads All Downloads (Mirror) Files: – dn-costumes-v11-Resources-cn.zip – Required – Accessories/dn-costumes-v12-cash_babywing.zip – White Cupid Wings – Accessories/dn-costumes-v12-cash_babywingdevil.zip – Loyal Dragon Wings – Accessories/dn-costumes-v11-cash_earring.zip – Loop Earrings See the NA Current Armors thread for cross-checking costume names.