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Pleo Voice-Changing Script

admin — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:52:23 +0000

The Pleo’s operating system uses 3 virtual machines running the PAWN scripting language to handle all the sensor input, animation output, and overall control of the built-in personality. Here is my first experiment in running Pleo code in the mysterious 4th virtual machine, the User VM. Pleo_Voice_200.zip Download and unzip this file, then copy the [...]

Pleo Ships!

admin — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:53:35 +0000

I’m eagerly awaiting delivery of my first Ugobe Pleo from eBay. Can’t wait to start programming!

Studio Sound Panels

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:41:47 +0000

I spend most of our 3-day weekend building sound insulation panels for my home green-screen insert stage. As you can see from the photo above the front room area I use for shooting tutorials is directly adjacent to a very busy road. My initial measurements with a Zoom audio recorder in the untreated room put [...]

Moore’s law of 8-bit computers

admin — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:26:35 +0000

Here's a visual example of where 8-bit computers came from and where they are now: On the bottom, a Commodore 64 home computer...