Tokyo Fist - Movie

Posted on June 23rd, 2008 in Geeky Uncategorized movie

I’ve been watching much japanese B grade movies lately but before I say anything about it , I have to first define what I mean by B grade. It essentially only means low budget but not necessarily qualifies it as a lousy movie, it’s just non-mainstream. Anyway, those that i’ve watched are mostly violent ones. Why did I even get started on violent movies with blood splurting out like a fountain and limbs being cut off in every other scene. It started off purely as my interest in samurais and ninjas with movies like death trance . Then I discovered more and more of these indie movies and I must say some of them are really warped and psychotic. This one movie I watched today is Tokyo Fist.


The summary sounds ordinary and cliche enough but when you start watching it you immediately know it can’t be such a movie. Here goes,

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway.

Tajuki is working as a semi-professional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance, Hizuru.

After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.

This is one movie that either says alot or nothing, depending on how you perceive it. I found it scary to watch as I follow the developmentof the characters( the plot wasn’t much). To me this movie is more about the characters than the plot. Everyone was going crazy and I felt at some point that it was getting to me as well , for most part I didn’t really understand why things were happening but then I thought its just not a movie to expect to know why. What the movie was saying to me was not about boxing or losing your girl, it was purely about losing your mind and the experience of it and also how fragile humans can be.

Tajuki is working as a semi-professional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance, Hizuru.

If anyone is interested, here’s a link :)
http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/CRSeries_-_Tokyo_Fist_-_Movie . I seriously don’t recommend this
to anyone who watches mainstream hollywood stuff all the time cause u wld prob scold me after watching it.

Reading multiple sensor inputs from arduino to processing

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 in Geeky arduino processing

I used to have this naive thinking that reading a sensor input from arduino is just a few lines of codes that I can copy and paste over and over again , probably because I worked with quite a lot of sensors in my last project “portable windows” as well, but for portable windows I was doing everything in arduino. So when I really wanted to start bringing in a few different input from the same port, I was completely stoned. Thankfully, I got myself a copy of “Making things work” by tom igoe and I saved myself back there. So i’m going to share this code with everyone, I modified it a little, its all about assigning variables so it should be easy. I would love to help if anyone needs any (not that i’m good) , but i’ll try.

here goes : processing.

import processing.serial.*;

int linefeed = 10;
Serial myPort; // The serial port

int one, two, three, four, five;

void setup()
{
size(512, 200);
// always start Minim first
println(Serial.list());

myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
myPort.bufferUntil(linefeed);

}

void draw(){

background(0);
if(two>0){
five=two;

}
else{
two=five;
}
println(”five =”+five);
delay(1000);
}

void serialEvent(Serial myPort){
String myString = myPort.readStringUntil(linefeed); //the ascii value of the “|” character
if(myString != null ){
myString = trim(myString);
int sensors[] = int(split(myString, ‘,’));
//now assign your values in processing

if (sensors.length == 4){

one = sensors[0];
two = sensors[1];
three = sensors[2];
four = sensors[3];

println(”one =”+one);
println(”two =”+two);
println(”three =”+three);
println(”four =”+four);

}

}

}

For arduino’s part, its per normal but when you do a serial print u need to add a “,” after each sensor’s data. And after the last println it should end with a “|” println. What this does is that it recognises every data as an input denoted by the comma and ends every loop with an “|”.

Example :

Serial.print(gas,DEC);
Serial.print(”,”);
Serial.println(retTemp, DEC);
// Serial.print(”|”);

hope that helps.

Geekiness

Posted on March 21st, 2008 in Geeky

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Dawn of a new multimedia era

Posted on January 31st, 2008 in Geeky say say say

Some of you might have already noticed the new Wall along the entrance / exit of the Orchard Mrt station , it was the first for me and it was more than just pretty lights for me. This wall is lighted up by thousands of led lights controlled by a system and they placed it behind these milky glass that diffuses the light and what we get is some very dreamy ambient lights. I must applaud them for finally doing something different, this is definitely a benchmark in the interactive/multimedia installation business and it is good news for me. I took a look at the interior of the glass panels being the geeky investigative me and immediately I thought wow, this is kinda overkill because that is not even a rgb screen display. Well anyway they have the money so why not. Have a look at it anyway.

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Idog - Itune’s pet

Posted on January 27th, 2008 in Geeky music

I got one of these cute looking Idogs today. Not that i’m bored, its actually for one of my toy hacking class project but this turns out to be quite cool. You have to try it to know. idog2410.jpg 

RFID World

Posted on January 26th, 2008 in Geeky

This morning I went to the Bedok Camp to do my physical fitness test, while I didn’t do as well as I hoped to be, I was quickly distracted by the new system that they were using. Everything was automated! You just have to scan your card and you are good to go, it was so convenient and time saving. While I was waiting, I couldn’t help thinking about what technology they used and at the same time I thought ” Hey welcome to the RFID and sensor World!” In case you wonder what the hell RFID is, it is basically something that everyone uses. Yup. Our train cards have a rfid chip embedded in it that stores data and communicates with the card reader to exchange and store information. There is a wide range of applications for it. So anyway, I think this is a post interactive syndrome that I got from school.