Postal de natal 2013

Esta é a minha entrada para a competição de natal de 2013 do forum Blender-PT de postais de natal, é algo simples sem elementos 3D, ré-imaginando a cena toda em 2.5D no Blender, Inkscape foi usado para adicionar o texto.

Bem podia ter usado uma fonte mais natalícia, ups :)

Shishi Odoshi

This was my entry for the first Blender-PT competition, with the theme "Loop" animation, the idea was to make a small but loop capable animation, my entry is based on the japanese Shishi Odoshi. Rendered with BI (Blender Internal) and fluids simulation for water splash animation.
 

 

 Check it on youtube

Using old iSight camera via USB

This is small note regarding the usage of the iSight camera as a regular web camera, which can be used on any computer with linux/ubuntu.

The camera has a small USB lookalike plug, which I removed, and replaced by a regular USB male plug. The cables followed the standard USB coloring scheme, which helped a lot find D+ and D- (check electrodroid app > USB pinout), GND and VCC where quite obvious.

After that I installed the packages on ubuntu to support the iSight:
sudo apt-get install isight-firmware-tools

To run the re-configure (if the binary blob path path is set incorrectly):
sudo dpkg-reconfigure isight-firmware-tools

After connecting the camera, typed:
dmesg | tail -10
[...] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[...] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=8501
[...] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[...] usb 2-2: Product: Built-in iSight
[...] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Micron
[...] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[...] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Built-in iSight (05ac:8501)
[...] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[...] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[...] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)

Installed cheese and voilà, it works :)

SyncCopy

TL;DR

SyncCopy is a selective files and folder copier with a UI, which basically, helps creating backups to the cloud(like Dropbox, MeoCloud, etc...) without copying the databases, compilation files, version control and other crap programmers have to deal everyday.

Description:

This is the small application I have been working on in the last weeks, which helps users synchronize contents of one folder to another, it's like a "version control thing" but simpler. 

The main target I had in mind was to copy my projects source code and resources to the dropbox, but excluding all the unnecessary data, like the IDE database and compilation products. This way I could synchronize my small projects between my machines and easily update/commit the changed files.

The program works this way:

1) Add a "link", like a new svn/git repository in the server;

2) Set the link name;

3) Set the project folder (where you have your work folder);

4) Set the sync folder (inside a Dropbox share somewhere in your system);

5) Add excluded file extensions(for example "o" to exclude gcc compiled objects);

6) Add excluded folder paths(for example "Debug" to exclude visual studio compilation folders);

7) Hit "OK";

8) Select link on links list;

9) Hit "Sync" on main window;

10) Select "Commit" on the dialog message;

11) The sync window is now scanning the project and sync folder to find the differences;

12) Check the suggested changes and disable those you don't want to be executed;

13) Hit "Sync" and the files will be submitted to the dropbox folder;

With the "update" function it's the opposite operation, it will copy the changed files on the cloud to your local work folder.

The application was developed in the devil language, I mean, Sun Oracle java, it's supposed to run everywhere. It's still in a early beta-testing and it will be opensource a link should appear soon.

[Download]

Iberanime 2013 Cosplay

Agora que finalmente tenho uma câmara fotográfica boa, esforcei-me para tentar tirar umas fotos fixes aos cosplayers no Iberanime, ou tentar pelo menos. Fica aqui as melhores fotos, quer dizer, as mais focadas...

Desconheço :(

Ezio - Assassins Creed

Eruka Frog - Soul Eater

Mascote do evento

Nyan Nyan cat

Chi ou a "irmã" - Chobits

Franken Stein - Soul Eater

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Ryu x Baby x Ken

Minecraft + Nyan Cat = WIN

Riuk Shinigami - Death Note

Bora lá fazer aqui uma pergunta complicada em português aos nossos colegas nipónicos...