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You have found the personal site of
Thomas A. McDonley. The buttons to your left will guide you to the
specific portion of the site you might be interested in.
Programming: includes EasyGL, Projects (source
code, descriptions, downloads), and Tutorials
*Looking for Sudoku? Page
Link or Download
Electronics: includes all the hardware projects
I have been working on such as Autonomous Robotics, BEAMS, and PIC
bases computing.
Math: includes all the mathmatical stuff that
I am interested in and working on. Lots of overlap with Programming
but also some new things like Fractals and Cryptography.
Writings: includes philosophical rants and a
handful of poetry I wrote and don't hate ;)
Art: includes scanned sketches, paintings (Some
real, some done with Painter 5), and computer generated art (using
Photoshop, 3DS Max, and/or Maya LE)
About Me: Get to know me better
News
(4/25/07)
I've updated the progress I've made with
my family of robots. I've also moved the videos to YouTube to free
of space and bandwidth (Also helps with people that don't have DivX).
Check out the progress and read the Reports for good how-to's and
schematics. ROBI's main page
(2/27/07)
I have been working on a family of co-operative
autonomous robots for a few months and have posted some information,
progress, pictures, and movies. As I hit mile-stones I plan to update
the site showing what I have accomplished. Eventually you will be
able to see movies of the robots performing on media/demo day at UF,
download the AutoCAD design for their mobile platforms, schematics
of systems and sensors I've designed, as well as howto code and solutions
to problems I've encountered.
You can see a short summary on the Electronics
page or you can go to ROBI's main page.
I've also updated the About Me page with my
new interestes: Bartending and Recurve Archery.
(10/12/06)
In one of my classes we are learning about
FPGAs so I spent a day and made an Atari style Breakout
game. I've always wanted to make an old video game from logic gates
so I found the results (however primative) to be very rewarding. I
also posted some new drawings I have done lately.
Two of them are done with pastels; I really would like to be better
at creating an impressionist style, but it's a start.
Recently, Sudoku was reviewed in a
small internet article from the bangkok
post. You can either search for "my Sudoku" in their
Database section. For follow this link to the review.
(08/30/06)
I've been very busy with school lately. I
just finished a summer of uP and OS. I am working on my last 20 credits!
I designed and built two guitar distortion
pedals which are featured on the Electrionics
page. I also programmed a Sudoku class
with a human style solver and puzzle creator. On top of this sits
a OpenGL GUI that turns it in a fully featured game. It's completely
freeware and offers many more features than most of the ones that
make you pay. I am still working on the program but most sudoku players
should be quite happy with the current level. Right now I am moding
RC Planes and designing a digitally controlled/configurable analog
effects pedal.
I also updated my Philosophy section under writings.
I made alot of grammar corrections but I am trying to overhaul it
to be more philosophically based. More about what I think and reason
than what I feel. Being so I deleted Beauty and Love. I made alot
of additions and deletions to the others as well. My plan is to organize
them and to kind of keep each section updated with different thoughts
and theories as they come to me.
(05/16/05)
Two new poems: A
Boy as Drawn and Prove Affection.
I drew a picture with my new Wacom tablet using Painter; although
it's not done, I posted it in the Art section (Night
Girl). I also updated the Math and Programming
Projects section. I added new formulas to calculate Pi, and a
Sorting Algorithm and Schematics Editing program respectively. Currently,
I am working on the Schematics program, some poetry, and Pogo. Pogo
is a robot my father build a few years ago. Recently, Pogo has become
ill and my father let me work on him to see if I could find a fix.
When I am done I will post more about Pogo but until then you should
take a look at Pogo's homepage
on my father's website.
(02/16/05)
Two new poems: Pretend
and Chain Smoker. I got a digitizer
tablet from Wacom, you can check out a picture I augmented in Photoshop
using it here. There should be a new drawing
very soon.
(01/15/05)
Lots of new things have happend recently.
I took some more current pictures of myself which are on the updated
about me page. I am in alot of really interesting
classes like Solid State Electronics, Electromagnetic Fields I and
Data Structures and Algorithms (yes, I took this class in high school...
no ,they didn't give me credit). I am taking an interest in rock climbing,
thanks to Cecilia. She really is the best friend I've ever had. I
have so much fun with her =). Well, hope to add some new code, drawings
and poetry soon.
(11/24/04)
I drew a new picture
and signed up for one of those online
journal things.
(10/31/04)
I drew a new picture and took photos of some
I hadn't scanned awhile back. I also reordered all of them cronologically
so you can see me improving.... hopefully =P. Check out the new pictures
here.
(10/09/04)
I wrote a new poem and uploaded it (Drops
of Jazz). Christina and I went out... but she broke up with me
about a week ago... I suppose lots more poetry is to come. Oh, I updated
my About Me picture. Who's that sexy man? =P
(06/18/04)
I wrote a new poem and uploaded it (The
Trusting Little Boy). I drew a tattoo and photoshoped it onto
my back. I have to save up alot of money, but I would really like
to get it and am very happy with how it turned out. I haven't had
the time to take screen shots of the Tenshi window manger or to finilize
the code; but I am willing to email it to anyone that would like to
take a look at it.
(06/12/04)
This is going to be brief. I met a new friend
named Christina. I drew a really cool picture in the classes I should
have been paying attention to =P. And over the break I finished the
Window Manager for Linux. I will be uploading the source for all to
see and use at will. Along with screen shots. I am very happy with
the results =).
(05/03/04)
Alot has happend since summer started. To start,
I joined the Reconfigurable Computing group (RC
Group) which is a devision of the HCS (High-speed Computering
and Simulation) deparment at UF. I am currently working on developing
my new encryption method (using fractals wouldn't you guess) which
will aide in finding how RC devices fit into crypography best. I am
also working on CARMA (Cluster-based Approach to Reconfigurable Management
Architecture) in such areas as application mapping, job scheduling,
and optimizing slow code. My focus is broad right now, but in the
next week or so I hope to dive into a specific area mentioned and
start coding poetry =).
Website specific, I have added 2 new sections, Electronics
and Math, to help encompass my deverse interests and work. New poetry
(Tulip) and two new paintings
(real ones this time =P) have also been posted.
(03/03/04)
I am not really sure how the site came down, but
I fixed it. In addition, I finished a painting you can view in the
art section. I am planning to add a new section to display the different
electronics I have build and experimented with; such as autonomous
robotics and BEAMS.
(01/23/04)
I have updated some content. Two more poems have
been added and the Programming projects have been updated. New projects
include a modular Window Manager for Linux that will look and feel
much like the Tenshi windows theme and be fully customizable and minimalistic.
I also worked on the Omega OS for a few weeks and I am now working
on a micro kernal. Soon... Soon it should have functionality resembling
early unix (pre-emptive multitasking r0x0r)
(01/22/04)
I just finished converting the old site format to
the new design. The old website was done completly in flash and with
alot of custom coding. However, I began to feel the drawbacks of doing
a website completely in flash (especially when someone is linked to
the site from a search engine they start at the main page rather than
what they wanted). So I hope everyone enjoys this design as much or
more than the last one. Thanks for all the compliments and support
:).
If you find any broken links, have comments or suggestions
email me at DarkEyes_z@hotmail.com
