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News & Updates

Update	Entry: 06/08/13
: All sections online! More content incoming... listen to original music while you browse here:

Update	Entry: 06/08/13
: Art section is now online!

Update	Entry: 06/07/13
: Updated postings coming online in Software...

Update	Entry: 06/06/13
: New and updated postings in Hardware!

News	Entry: 06/01/13
: Thomas is converting the website to HTML5/CSS3. Please enjoy the background until then...

contact: FractalFunctions@gmail.com
(C)2013 Thomas McDonley

Hardware

DCAMP-16	Entry: 06/01/13
: Digitally Controlled Analog Multi-effects Pedal

DCAMP is a digitally controlled analog sound processing tool for musicians. All the covienence of dynamic digital presets and effect order chaining with the purity of an analog only pedal boards. The DCAMP accepts upto 16 plug-n-play effect boards which can be configured and ordered along the audio path dynamically according to software presets. A microcontroller and simple OS serve up a simplistic UI through LCD + DPAD to configure said presets and audio path. Sheilding and opto-coupling is used to isolate the digital control signals from the audio path. The audio path is never encoded or decoded.

ROBI	Entry: 04/26/07
: 3 entity autonomous robot swarm

ROBI (Ro-Beye) is a term I use to describe my co-operative autonmous family of robots. These robots include Robi (Ro-bee), the parent, and Remi and Multi, the two children. The robots are modeled after real bological behaviors that vaguely simulate a family of ducks. The robots communicate with each other, are aware of each other's relative posistion and distance, can navigate environment, all while achieving the goal of parent-child emergent behaviors.

contact: FractalFunctions@gmail.com
(C)2013 Thomas McDonley

ROBI	Entry: 04/26/07
: 3 entity autonomous robot swarm

ROBI (Ro-Beye) is a term I use to describe my co-operative autonmous family of robots. These robots include Robi (Ro-bee), the parent, and Remi and Multi, the two children. The robots are modeled after real bological behaviors that vaguely simulate a family of ducks. The robots communicate with each other, are aware of each other's relative posistion and distance, can navigate environment, all while achieving the goal of parent-child emergent behaviors.

Multimedia and Downloads
: Images:

: Video:


IR	Pos	Dist 1	Dist 2

Bump	Demo 1	Demo 2	Live Demo

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: Schematics:


Pulse Mod	Custom Sensor

: Files:


Autocad Design	Report	Custom Sensor

Mobile Platform and Electronics
: Mobile Platform:

TJ/Rugwarrior inspired body designed in AutoCAD
Bumper made from circle of wood cut into front, back, and two left/right wing sections
- Each section has lever bump switches which rotate on an axis
Two Hitec HS-81 Servos - Hacked for full/continuous rotation
Omni-Directional Caster Wheel (Tamiya 70144) from www.pololu.com
- The caster is extended using 3" threaded rods and nuts

: Electronics:

Maveric IIB Atmega128 Board (Parent) / Atmega128 Headerboard (Child)
Custom IS471F Proximity Detector with 2 Pulsed IR LEDs
LCD 4bit 2x16 (For parent only; children can send messages to parent to display)
Custom Sight Sensor using IR 56kHz Detector, two IR LED eyes, 555 timer, and Digital Pot
RF Link, serial, 315Mhz, 4800bps from www.sparkfun.com
8xAA NiMh 2500mAh (~11V regulated to 9V)

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contact: FractalFunctions@gmail.com
(C)2013 Thomas McDonley

DCAMP-16	Entry: 06/01/13
: Digitally Controlled Analog Multi-effects Pedal

DCAMP is a digitally controlled analog sound processing tool for musicians. All the covienence of dynamic digital presets and effect order chaining with the purity of an analog only pedal boards. The DCAMP accepts upto 16 plug-n-play effect boards which can be configured and ordered along the audio path dynamically according to software presets. A microcontroller and simple OS serve up a simplistic UI through LCD + DPAD to configure said presets and audio path. Sheilding and opto-coupling is used to isolate the digital control signals from the audio path. The audio path is never encoded or decoded.

Multimedia and Downloads
: Images:

Click left to enlarge images...

contact: FractalFunctions@gmail.com
(C)2013 Thomas McDonley

Software

mySudoku	Entry: 08/20/06
: A fully featured sudoku game / solver / generator

mySudoku started from scratch as an OO sudoku game engine upon which a human markup-style AI solver was written. It's now a completely free fully featured OpenGL based windows game avaiable for download. The game features markup annotation, custom and random board creation, difficulty ratings, and is skinabble. The solver is said to be a human-style AI because it never guesses or backtracks instead looking for known patterns in the markup annotation.

contact: FractalFunctions@gmail.com
(C)2013 Thomas McDonley

mySudoku	Entry: 08/20/06
: A fully featured sudoku game / solver / generator

mySudoku started from scratch as an OO sudoku game engine upon which a human markup-style AI solver was written. It's now a completely free fully featured OpenGL based windows game avaiable for download. The game features markup annotation, custom and random board creation, difficulty ratings, and is skinabble. The solver is said to be a human-style AI because it never guesses or backtracks instead looking for known patterns in the markup annotation.

Multimedia and Downloads
: Images: