Monthly Archive: July 2012

Jul
27

Visualizing Sound Files on A Multitouch Surface

For most of the summer now I have been developing software to allow for the visualization of sound files.  Other products such as Wavesurfer and Audacity already accomplish this task along with other capabilities. What differs between those programs and the one I have been working on is its use is for the Microsoft Surface. …

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Jul
26

Extracting data from Matlab figures

Has it ever happened to you that you have a Matlab figure, but you forgot to save the corresponding data? It happened to me more than once and each time I have to remind myself how to get the data back. Finally, I decided to save the knowledge here for anyone who may run into …

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Jul
19

KEEPERS – Inspired to Become Engineers at a very young age

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After a morning workshop about electricity, KEEPERS campers continued to have fun while learning about some of the applications of electrical and computer engineering in the UNH-ECE driving simulator lab. Today, Oskar Palinko and I hosted a group of about 25 KEEPERS campers. To ensure that every KEEPERS camper had an opportunity to learn about and interact …

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Jul
17

Optimizing Graphs on The Microsoft Surface

Recently, while working on a project to visualize .wav files on the Microsoft Surface, I ran into an issue regarding the canvas controls size. While developing this software I am testing with a .wav file about 4 minutes long. Visualizing this file creates a canvas with a width of about 20,000 pixels . . . …

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