User:Espero

Colin Rowat, c.rowat@espero.org.uk

I am currently working on:

• icibici, a £20 brain-computer interface; talk to us!

I would like to:

• find a team interested in building an AI to play Diplomacy. A short presentation is here
• code up the Black-Scholes option pricing formula in an esoteric programming language to add to Espen Haug's list
• find a good use for my www.wrongdoing.org domain
• open source the Arkel's discontinued Samurai panniers

I have:

• a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set and First LEGO League Challenge 2011 kit
• an Arduino Uno R3 starter kit from Earthshine Electronics
• a Kindle
• a bunch of old mobile phones (including a SE K608i, a k800i, and a Nokia E90)
• a Go and a Mancala board
• a vintage Air Zound rechargeable signal horn
• a Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent
• an article in Adbusters
• two children with Y2K-compliant incept dates (Do Not Hack)
• one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
• 3/4* round(Bachelor of Industrial Design) = 0

I know how to:

• pick a two-pin lock
• write in LaTeX, most enjoyably Till Tantau's PGF/TikZ and Ulrike Fischer's chessboard and xskak

I have sourced Blinkybug components almost entirely from London shops:

• 5mm LEDs from Maplin
• 3V 2032 Li coin cell batteries from almost anywhere (Homebase was more expensive than the local Post Office)
• guitar string (high E, custom guage 9) from Folkies Music
• 1.6mm OD copper tubing from 4D modelshop
• pipe cleaners and craft glue dots from London Art
• conductive tape from Farnell