Kael's BlogHome/Bloghttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2012-04-23T17:21:37ZSquarespaceSummer Movie Draft!http://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2012/4/2/summer-movie-draft.htmlKael Hankins2012-04-02T17:17:54Z2012-04-02T17:17:54ZBy: Studio Hades via openclipart.orgSo i'm participating in our own local summer movie draft this year! If you're not familiar with the concept, basicially we get together throw some money in a pot (not very much money) and then each player gets 100 credits to use to bid on the summer movies to assemble their "team". The draft is done auction style so you are competing against the other players in the auction to assemble a team which will have the highest total gross box office revenue by 9/23/2012. My movies this year (the ones you sould all go to see :) are:

 

  • Wrath of the Titans
  • The Avengers
  • Battleship
  • Prometheus
  • Total Recal (the re-make)

 

You can follow the draft throughout the summer here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuA6OeHsMliAdHVlbW5LRXlJYVk3WFRINUtOUFg0X2c&output=html

]]>Spring Project: Simple Raised Gardenhttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2012/3/27/spring-project-simple-raised-garden.htmlKael Hankins2012-03-27T17:53:57Z2012-03-27T17:53:57Z Since spring has sprung so early, I decided to get started on a garden. It's been a while since I had the space for one so this should be fun. 

I decided on a raised style, in two or three seperate boxes to help control water flow and to let me specialize the soil and drainage for several groups of plants.

Take a look at the project blog the pictures section for details.

]]>Latest Projecthttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2012/1/26/latest-project.htmlKael Hankins2012-01-26T19:00:13Z2012-01-26T19:00:13Z 

The Iowa Lan LeagueLately I have been designing a website for the Iowa Lan League. The League is dedicated to being a loose support structure for lan parties in the mid-west and host an anual two game league. Each "member lan" is asked to consider hosting a league qualifier tournament at one of their events. The winners of these qualifiers are invited to a final event which includes a finals tournament, and regular lan party all rolled into one.

Check it out at www.iowalanleague.com

 

]]>AC Control and dimming with Arduinohttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2011/12/19/ac-control-and-dimming-with-arduino.htmlKael Hankins2011-12-20T04:48:23Z2011-12-20T04:48:23ZRecently I have been exploring working with AC control using the Arduino. I am planning on building a 6 channel, multi-function controller eventially but for now, here is a breadboard proof of concept video.

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]]>Morrowind & Skyrim Themes on Piano and Violinhttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2011/11/25/morrowind-skyrim-themes-on-piano-and-violin.htmlKael Hankins2011-11-26T05:25:34Z2011-11-26T05:25:34ZI've been playing quite a lot of Skyrim lately (58 123 hours and counting). The theme song is just plain cool and get stuck in your head pretty firmly just as the theme from Oblivion did. Naturally this leads to me scouring youtube for some good cover versions, this rates pretty high up there. They just need a bit of time in a studio with some better recording equipment and this would be amazing!

]]>Parallaxhttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2011/10/22/parallax.htmlKael Hankins2011-10-22T18:16:19Z2011-10-22T18:16:19ZCheck out this trailer for Parallax, a new indie game coming from ToastyGames.

]]>Symphony of Science - the Quantum World!http://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2011/9/6/symphony-of-science-the-quantum-world.htmlKael Hankins2011-09-07T04:43:27Z2011-09-07T04:43:27ZThis video is not what you are imaging. 

]]>Portal: No Escapehttp://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2011/8/23/portal-no-escape.htmlKael Hankins2011-08-24T02:24:34Z2011-08-24T02:24:34ZFor the literally five people who will see this, I wanted to bring some more attention to a video that will soon be exploding on Youtube. Portal: No Escape. Basically it's a very well done live action Portal short. 

Check it out:

]]>DHTML Lemmings!http://www.kaelhankins.com/home/2011/8/8/dhtml-lemmings.htmlKael Hankins2011-08-08T18:39:32Z2011-08-08T18:39:32ZOne of my all time favorite games from the 90's is back thanks to the magic that is dynamic html. Check it out at Elizium: http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

I have never done a lot of work with client side dhtml (I'm much more of a php guy) I can guess that this was a lot of work. I wonder if this could be handeled in HTML 5. Maybe I'll take that on as a way of getting into the HTML 5 groove.

DHTML Lemmings!

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