Harishankar

An ordinary human with huge passion towards electronics design from childhood. Later seduced by computer programming & became software architect by profession.

Google AI Challenge Ants 2011 - Post Mortem

Dec 30, 2011 5 min read AI-Contest

As a 3 week hard work and sleepless nights, I took the 127th rank in Google AI Challenge Ants 2011 and 1st in my country India. I thought the experience was worth sharing

Hacking iPhone 4 into a Digital Microscope

Oct 29, 2011 1 min read iPhone

I was always eager to zoom in to things to see if I can find microbes. This time I took a step forward and opened up one of my old DVD drives to

Kinect + Box2D

Sep 27, 2011 1 min read kinect

Past few days I've been trying to arrange a marriage between my Kinect Algorithms and Box2d and it finally came up very well. As they both didn't really love

Complex Gesture Recognition using Kinect

Sep 8, 2011 hacking

Like I said earlier, I was working on some complex gesture recognition system that can recognize numbers. The whole system was built with Embedded systems in mind, so its just c++ and no

Clean Background removal with blob detection

Mar 31, 2011 1 min read kinect

Yes, am a little ahead in the background removal. I have now removed the background noise that escaped from my first layer background removal algorithm. I've added a second layer of