Kael's Blog

Summer Movie Draft!

Kael Hankins — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:17:54 +0000

By: 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 Garden

Kael Hankins — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:53:57 +0000

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 Project

Kael Hankins — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:00:13 +0000

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 Arduino

Kael Hankins — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:48:23 +0000

Recently 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.

Censored!

Kael Hankins — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:19:00 +0000

Morrowind & Skyrim Themes on Piano and Violin

Kael Hankins — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:25:34 +0000

I'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!

Parallax

Kael Hankins — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:16:19 +0000

Check out this trailer for Parallax, a new indie game coming from ToastyGames.

Symphony of Science - the Quantum World!

Kael Hankins — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:43:27 +0000

This video is not what you are imaging.

Source: Symphony of Science - the Quantum World! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGINaRUEkU) by Melodysheep

Portal: No Escape

Kael Hankins — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:24:34 +0000

For 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:

Source: Portal: No Escape (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk&feature=share)

DHTML Lemmings!

Kael Hankins — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:39:32 +0000

One 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!