Fairchild Channel F Game Sampler RedbeardMathPirate 2009-09-02 | A collection of games for the Fairchild Channel F console from 1976. Includes Desert Fox, Sonar Search, Tic-Tac-Toe, Hockey, Soccer, Spitfire, Memory Match, Video Blackjack, Shooting Gallery, Drag Strip, Torpedo Alley, Robot War, and my favorite, Dodge It. YOU LOSE TURKEY
Seattle Snowpocalypse and the Great Meltdown RedbeardMathPirate 2012-01-25 | A time lapse video compressing seven days of Seattle weather into seven minutes. Witness the snowfall, a power outage, the ice storm, the rain, the wind, and the great meltdown, ending with a rare sunny day in January.
Takeoff on Lake Chelan RedbeardMathPirate 2011-08-28 | In July 2011, I took a Chelan Seaplanes flight from Stehekin back to Chelan in a DeHavilland Beaver floatplane. This video shows the takeoff from Lake Chelan near Stehekin.
Approach and Landing on Lake Chelan RedbeardMathPirate 2011-08-28 | In July 2011, I took a Chelan Seaplanes flight from Stehekin back to Chelan in a DeHavilland Beaver floatplane. This video shows the approach over downtown Chelan and the landing on the lake.
Zion National Park: Temple of Sinawava/Narrows Parking Lot in 3D RedbeardMathPirate 2010-08-11 | A loop around The Narrows parking lot in Zion Canyon in March of 2009. Most of the year, the park road is closed to private vehicles. Instead, park visitors must take a shuttle bus between points of interest. The number of people there in March, when the road is open, clearly illustrates why Zion needs that shuttle bus.
Tomy Tutor - Torpedo Terror RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Torpedo Terror on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Deep Six RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Deep Six on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Hyperspace RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Hyperspace on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983. You got Tron in my Tempest and Tempest in my Tron!
Tomy Tutor - Car-azy Racer RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Car-azy Racer on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Pooyan RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Pooyan on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Scramble RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Scramble on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Cave Crawlers RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Cave Crawlers on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Jungler RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Jungler on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Traffic Jam RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Traffic Jam on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Loco-Motion RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Playing Loco-Motion on the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983.
Tomy Tutor - Graphics Module RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Exploring the built-in Graphics and Drawing mode of the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983. You can draw an entire scene in beautiful 16-color graphics, complete with four sprites! There's also a graphic programming mode, where you can use Tomy GBasic to animate your creation.
Tomy Tutor - Basic Programming RedbeardMathPirate 2010-05-24 | Exploring the built-in Basic Programming mode of the Tomy Tutor computer from 1983. The exploration is limited, and made even worse by the flaky 0 key on the keyboard.
Hidden Valley Campground, Joshua Tree National Park RedbeardMathPirate 2010-04-28 | A drive through of the Hidden Valley Campground in Joshua Tree National Park, California. (Sorry for the rattle. I didn't notice the camera wasn't properly secured until after I got home. The dirt road through the campground made it worse.)
K.C. Munchkin vs. Pac-Man RedbeardMathPirate 2009-10-18 | A side-by-side comparison of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 and K.C. Munchkin! for the Magnavox Odyssey 2. Back in 1981, Magnavox was sued by Atari, who claimed that KC was infringing the copyright on Pac-Man. Now you can see what the fuss was about. It's well known that the Atari 2600 Pac-Man ghosts suffered from a horrible case of the Flickers. The flickering was the result of a hardware trick involving displaying the each of the ghost sprites on alternating frames. The Atari ran at 60 FPS, while my PC TV input only does 30 FPS. Because of this, this video only picked up half of the frames, therefore half of the ghosts. That results in some odd things, like Pac-Man eating nothing and getting killed by thin air. Not a bug in the game, just a glitch in the recording process.
Lego Mindstorms Robot Playing Atari 2600 Pong RedbeardMathPirate 2009-09-09 | Over Labor Day Weekend, I built a Lego Mindstorms robot that could play a game of Pong on the Atari 2600's Video Olympics cartridge. The video from the Atari is run through a custom processor using the OpenCV library, which then predicts where the ball is likely to go, and, using that information, tells the Lego Mindstorms robot to rotate the paddle left or right. For this project, I'm using an actual 2600 and unmodified paddle. This video shows the robot playing a complete game and beating the CPU 21-9. Originally, I had hoped to make the robot play flawlessly and be able to play on a regular TV, but those goals proved too challenging given the timeframe I was working under. You can find out more about the project here: http://www.mathpirate.net/log/atari-robot
Mindstorms Robot Playing Atari Pong RedbeardMathPirate 2009-09-07 | I'm working on building a robot that can play a flawless game of Pong on the Atari 2600's Video Olympics cartridge. The video from the Atari is run through a processor using OpenCV, which then predicts where the ball is likely to go, and, using that information, tells a Lego Mindstorms robot to rotate the paddle left or right. For this project, I'm using an actual 2600 and unmodified paddle. You can see by how poorly it plays (It's the green paddle) that this is still a work in progress. The prediction of the trajectory of the ball is sometimes off and sometimes the robot does not respond to the commands fast enough. You can find out more about the project here: http://www.mathpirate.net/log/atari-robot
Computer Assisted Pong RedbeardMathPirate 2009-09-05 | I'm working on building a robot that can play a flawless game of Pong on the Atari 2600's Video Olympics cartridge. The first part of the project is the recognizer system, which uses the OpenCV Computer Vision Libraries to "See" the game and figure out where the ball is headed. The line is the projected path of the ball, the dots are the historical projections of where the ball will end up, and the red circles are centered on the average of those historical points and will shrink as more data becomes available and the confidence in that point increases. Of course, even with all that technology and those computations on my side, I still suck and get beaten by the 2600's CPU paddle. Oh well. There are obviously some kinks in the system that need to be worked out... You can find out more about the project here: http://www.mathpirate.net/log/atari-robot
Zen-Like Perfect Game On Atari Pong RedbeardMathPirate 2009-09-05 | Perfect game on Pong on the Atari 2600 Video Olympics Cartridge. What makes this particularly notable is that the player paddle does not move at all for the entire length of the game. I am the ball. I am the paddle. You cannot defeat me.
Fairchild Channel F Joystick Demonstration RedbeardMathPirate 2009-08-30 | The Fairchild Channel F Hand Controller had 8 directions of movement: Forward, backward, left and right, like a normal joystick. Twisting clockwise and counter clockwise, like a paddle. In and out, like a pinball plunger. This video shows how they were all put to use in the console's built-in game "Hockey". Unfortunately, the complex controls make the game rather difficult to play.
Belle Fourche Campground, Devils Tower RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the Belle Fourche campground at Devils Tower National Monument.
Indian Creek Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the campground at Indian Creek, Yellowstone National Park.
Pebble Creek Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the campground at Pebble Creek, Yellowstone National Park.
Tower Fall Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the campground at Tower Fall, Yellowstone National Park.
Mammoth Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the campground at Mammoth, Yellowstone National Park.
Canyon Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the campground at Canyon, Yellowstone National Park.
Norris Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the campground at Norris, Yellowstone National Park.
Grant Village Campground, Yellowstone RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | A drive around the Grant Village Campground, Yellowstone National Park.
Craters Of The Moon Campground RedbeardMathPirate 2009-05-31 | Campground in Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
Sega Dreamcast BIOS RedbeardMathPirate 2009-01-21 | A minute of the Sega Dreamcast BIOS menus. No commentary, no lame remarks, no voice overs, no subtitles, just a minute of configuration and options.
Atari Jaguar Alien vs. Predator RedbeardMathPirate 2009-01-04 | A minute of the Atari Jaguar game Alien vs. Predator. No commentary, no lame remarks, no voice overs, no subtitles, just a minute of sci-fi action.
Atari Jaguar Rayman RedbeardMathPirate 2009-01-04 | A minute of the Atari Jaguar game Rayman. No commentary, no lame remarks, no voice overs, no subtitles, just a minute of the limbless wonder.
Atari Jaguar Tempest 2000 RedbeardMathPirate 2009-01-04 | A minute of the Atari Jaguar game Tempest 2000. No commentary, no lame remarks, no voice overs, no subtitles, just a minute of the ultra-violent, hyperdelic 64th dimension.
Sunset at Peter Iredale, Part 2 RedbeardMathPirate 2008-12-28 | Watching the sunset at the wreck of the Peter Iredale, at Fort Stevens State Park, near Astoria, Oregon.
Sunset at Peter Iredale, Part 1 RedbeardMathPirate 2008-12-28 | Watching the sunset at the wreck of the Peter Iredale, at Fort Stevens State Park, near Astoria, Oregon.
Deer in a Redmond, WA, Apartment Complex RedbeardMathPirate 2008-12-20 | A pair of deer wandering around the parking lot of an apartment complex in Redmond, WA.
Snow in Redmond, Washington RedbeardMathPirate 2008-12-20 | 7-9 inches of snow in Redmond, WA, in Overlake, near Microsoft, on December 18th, 2008. 520 was empty, buses blocked the 40th and 51st Street exits and effectively shut down the Overlake Transit Center.
Yellowstone: Grant Village to Norris Junction in 10 Minutes RedbeardMathPirate 2008-11-17 | Driving from Grant Village to Norris Junction, along Lake Yellowstone and through the Hayden Valley. This drive took about an hour and a half, but has been compressed to ten minutes vor viewing.
Snoqualmie Pass Speedrun, I-90 from Bellevue to Ellensburg RedbeardMathPirate 2008-11-15 | Driving over Snoqualmie Pass, on Interstate 90, between Bellevue and Ellensburg, Washington. The trip actually took around an hour and a half.
Websites about Obama Victory RedbeardMathPirate 2008-11-05 | The front page of a bunch of news websites immediately following Barack Obama's victory on Nov. 4th 2008.
Watching the Obama Victory RedbeardMathPirate 2008-11-05 | Starting at 7:59 PM, November 4th, 2008, one minute before the West Coast polls closed and history was made, when Barack Obama was elected president.
Voting for Obama RedbeardMathPirate 2008-10-17 | Here I am, casting my vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden on my absentee ballot.
Bellevue to Camano Island Washington Speedrun RedbeardMathPirate 2008-05-27 | A drive from Bellevue to Camano Island, on I-405, I-5, and 532, through Stanwood. This video has been sped up 16 times, so the two hour drive (Including about half an hour stuck in traffic in Bothell and again between Lynnwood and Everett) becomes a seven and a half minute video.
Highway 101 Speedrun, Trinidad to Crescent City, California RedbeardMathPirate 2008-05-27 | Take a journey through the Redwoods and the rain, along US Highway 101, between Trinidad and Crescent City, CA. This has been sped up eight times, so the hour long drive takes only about eight minutes. The road winds through the huge trees of the scenic Redwoods State and National Parks of Northern California.
Atari 2600 Prototype Game Found! RedbeardMathPirate 2008-05-02 | This is a recording of a prototype demo found on an unlabeled Atari 2600 cart, recently bought at the gift counter at a Greyhound bus station in Carson City. Rumor has it that in 1987, Atari's Sunnyvale engineers huddled together and devised a solution to the crisis facing the company, the onslaught of Nintendo and Sega. The engineers hailed the outcome as "20 Years Ahead of Its Time". Unfortunately, the marketing division also felt that it was twenty years ahead of its time, so this project never saw the light of day. But now, it's available for the world to see and share and wonder what might have happened, had they been able to finish and release this phenomenal game. You can grab the ROM from here: http://www.mathpirate.net/hold/Portal2600.bin There's also prototype label art here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redbeardmathpirate/3317017546
Rep. Ross Hunter Speaks to 48th LD Caucus, Pt. 2 RedbeardMathPirate 2008-04-06 | Washington State Representative Ross Hunter speaks to the delegates at the 48th LD Caucus at Interlake High School in Bellevue, on April 5th, 2008. He talks about Health Care and the importance of re-electing Jay Inslee. This video is part 2 of 2.
