Reading vector graphics

Introduction In this post I’ll describe a little implementation of a custom “format file converter”. Its a small python script to convert files in the Wacom WILL file format to SVG. Wacom is a company that manufactures drawing tablets. A couple of months ago I purchased a Wacom Bamboo Slate [1]. I always wanted to … Read more

Counting cells

Introduction In this post I’ll talk about my largest project in terms of time. It started in the middle of the year 2000 as my Master thesis subject and ended up extending itself until around mid 2013 (although it remained in hibernation for almost 10 years in between). The project was an “automatic cell counter”. … Read more

Doing better than Lego House

Introduction In this post I’ll talk about a small experience I had with a Lego set that I acquired on my trip to Legoland in Billund, Denmark (yes, the original Legoland 😃). I’ll not talk about the trip itself, which was the best of my life. It was so because I had the opportunity to … Read more

Blender + Kinect

Introduction In this small project, I finally did what I was dreaming on doing since I started playing with the Kinect API. For those who don’t know what a Kinect is, it is a special “joystick” that Microsoft invented. Instead of holding the joystick, you move in front of it and it captures your “position”. … Read more

Uroflowmetry…

Introduction This post is about health. Actually, its about a little project that implements a medical device called Uroflowmeter (not sure if that is the usual English word). Its a mouth full name to mean “little device that measures the flow of pee” (yes, pee as in urine 😇). Last year I had to perform … Read more