Z425

Servo torque to weight ratios

2009-07-10T19:19:00.000-07:00

0.16 Hitec HS-805BB 24.5kg-cm / 152g
0.16 HS-645MG 9.6kg-cm / 60g
0.18 HXT900 1.6kg-cm / 9g
0.19 Hitec HS-805BB @7.2V maybe 29kg-cm / 152g
0.30 Robotis AX-12+ 16.5kg-cm / 55g
0.37 Hitec HS-7955TG 24kg-cm / 65g
0.42 Futaba BLS152 31kg-cm / 74g
0.44 Hitec HS-5990TG 30kg-cm / 68g
0.46 JRPROPO DS6311HV 36.5oz-in / 80g
0.52 Robotis RX-28 37.7kg-cm / 72g
0.55 Robotis RX-64 64kg-cm / 116g
0.68 Robotis EX-106 106kg-cm / 155g
0.66 VSTONE V-SERVO VS-SV410 41kg-cm / 62g
0.68 VSTONE V-SERVO VS-SV1150 115kg-cm / 170g
0.85 VSTONE V-SERVO VS-SV3310 327kg-cm / 387g

The nice trend is that as you go up in torque your torque to weight ratio also goes up. So bigger robots should actually be easier to make than smaller robots. However what I also should really factor in is how much weight is required to power the servo. You could run a entire HXT900 biped on 2 A123 cells, but you might need on average a cell for each VS-SV3310 ( just a guess. )

Another thing going for the bigger bots is that the computer and censor bits take up a much smaller percentage of the over all mass.

Now for laughs.. http://www.z425.com/robot/diy-servo-project/
1.63 BILLY CRAZY DIY SERVO 594kg-cm / 365g ( no electronics )
I came up with those numbers years ago. Soon I'll finally get around to building one and see what it actually ends up at. I think I want to swap out the motor with a smaller one for physical size and amp reasons. The ratio should still end up above 1.0 with electronics. Which would be awesome.

Computer naming conventions

2009-07-09T11:48:00.001-07:00

My computers are currently named after GIJoe characters. This works pretty well because there are a lot of them and they are usually interesting names. I just work my way down the list.

I'm thinking that it might make sense to have a convention for drives as well with a sub-convention for partitions. Having all of these gives an absolute path to the existence of a file. While usually not important I'm running across the issue when syncing stuff across the cloud.

The question is what convention. The computer names are already long enough. Adding in another long drive name and another long partition name is a bad idea. One thing that also is useful is to include the name of the OS for the drive. That fails if you have more than one OS per partition, but that's really not all that big of a deal to limit things to one OS per partition. Probably a good idea anyway.

For partitions I could name them letters. This maps well for Windows, but does not make as much sense for other OS's. Though it does fit the convention of being nice and short. If I do go with drive letters I should start them down the alphabet enough so I can map them myself and not have to worry about windows reordering them.

So what happens when a drive ends up living in another computer? Does this live on via the naming convention? Maybe the real absolute path is the name of the drive and whatever computer it happens to be parked in at any give time really does not matter.

Yet another plan

2009-07-06T11:52:00.000-07:00

In February Janel's income goes up and it'll be right on the border of enough to support the family. We have money in the bank, but it'll be burned by then ( we've been burning it for awhile. ) So we're finally taking some of the "free" school money. We'll be proud Americans. With Janel covering the financials I will no longer need to both take care of the kids and pull $20K a year out my ass.

Which is good. Since I got back from Australia all the jobs I have taken were just to have an income. Shit. Most of my projects in that time have been directed towards being a way of having an income so that I could work on real projects. I'd get a job for a year or two and then spend the next year failing at making money and then have to go back to a job again. Taking a job always just ended up being a set back. The Ageia gig was particularly a bad plan. At the time I had the fastest and most robust physics tech around. Not that I would of built a company around it because that takes money ( though I should of), taking that Ageia job killed any of its potential. Of course when Havok was sold for $110M to Intel and Ageia for $35M to nVidia that was particularly "funny."

Anyway.

So the new plan.

1. Ship ShapeManiac for the iphone.
2. Give up.

I am no longer going to pretend that I have time enough to get anywhere on anything. It's just the same damn cycle over and over again. It just pisses me off.

I'm not really sure what I'll do with all those superfluous hours. I can always do nothing and go to bed at 9pm. Maybe I could take up the Wisconsin lifestyle and drink a 6 pack after "work." Maybe I could be ambitious and do both. I like to be ambitious.

Two weeks off

2009-07-06T11:45:00.000-07:00

Janel finished up 3rd year and had two weeks off. That gave me some time to work.

I spent the first half of the first week on random crap I needed to get done. Stuff like finally getting our data backed up properly.

The second half was very productive and I got the iphone version of ShapeManiac to a playable state.

The second week didn't go so well. I had more random crap and over-sleeping to take up my time. Janel also needed to start taking blocks during the day. About Wednesday I started feeling that my time was nearly up and that was completely demotivating.

So the end of the 2 weeks all I accomplished was getting iphone ShapeManiac mostly done. I thought I'd be able to kick out 2 apps, but I was not even able to kick out 1. FAIL.

sugarsync

2009-06-20T08:26:00.000-07:00

I'm currently trying out sugarsync.

I like it, but it scares the hell out of me. I chose it because it works more like I do. I like that you can choose whatever folders and that you can see computers as they are. It just seems technically way ahead of the others. It looks like they solved a lot of difficult problems. At least it seems that way.. Which is what scares me.

When I think about what I want it makes me think of how to actually implement it. There are just so damn many things that can go wrong. Sync seems simple on the surface, but it really is damn hard. That's scary.

So say I put all my family pics in the cloud and have it sync to my directory. No say sugarsync gets confused because my drive letters remap because I have a USB stick during a reboot. Sugarsync sees the files missing and goes.. Oh.. I guess I should delete them from the cloud. NOOO!!

I think the real problem is that everything is backwards. What you really want is everything in the cloud and anything on your disk is just a local cache. The cloud also has unlimited storage, so if I want 20 copies of something just in case.. Fine. Except I can't because that would be damn expense.

So my plan for my critical data is to get the data into the cloud and then manually every once in awhile sync everything down to a new directory/partition/drive and then turn that machine off. It's kinda like my backup of the backup.

New plan is to go back to the old plan

2009-06-13T10:12:00.001-07:00

So not trying to work is actually much worse than working and being frustrated about not having enough time work. While working still is a waste of time at least it does not feel like a waste of time most of the time.

I finally figured out the magic word that I am not. Fulfilled. The little lobotomy stirring I get each day from childcare is just not fulfilling.

At least when the kids where younger I could occupy my brain with predicting future events so that they would not get hurt. Now that they are older I still play that game, but they almost always out of arms-reach now and there is nothing I can do about it except watch the prediction come true and that's kinda disturbing.

I guess this is why other people play Sudoku or crosswords. Too bad I hate that shit because I see it for what it is.

So the new plan is to go back to old plan. I'll work when I can and I'll try to not get frustrated when I don't have enough time to do shit.

Sounds so familiar

2009-06-10T06:20:00.001-07:00

http://www.adam-mcfarland.net/2009/06/02/patience-is-a-virtue-i-dont-have-flashback/

Time fail

2009-06-04T11:28:00.001-07:00

The plan for June was to switch over to iphone shite app dev. That's still the plan, but it's been a total fail so far. After Janel gets home I am out the door within 10 minutes. The coffee shops around here all close too early so I need to go downtown. I really should drive, but there is no way I am going to drive because it is too nice outside. So I walk downtown to Starbucks and get there about a little before 7:30 .

I screw off for a half hour on the inet and finally start working at about 8pm. After I start I soon realize that there is no point. What the hell am I going to accomplish in 1.5 hours? Nothing. There is no point.. So I just get pissed off and walk home.

New plan..

I don't even try or bother working during the week. That'll at least give me some time to do other things. Maybe I'll even see Janel for more than 30 minutes a day and have a real conversation with an adult. That'd be crazy.

So I need to do all my work on the weekend. I still typically have the kids for half the day each day, but at least I'll get some contiguous hours.

Sales

2009-05-30T12:41:00.000-07:00

I guess I should post on my iphone sales.

$700 total as of last month. Not bad actually considering I've just left the apps to die. I figure doing nothing but playing the bullshit update game I could make at least $500/month from iButterToast and iToiletPaper combined. I only need to pull in $2,000/month to keep our bank account from drying out. I guess I should make some more stupid ass apps too.

JSON with inheritence

2009-05-30T11:42:00.001-07:00

Many games use some sort of inheritance for some of their content. This is basically a json preprocessor that supports inheritance using a couple of specific file location rules.

The path rules are pretty simple.

./ prefix for file scope ( internal to file )
../ prefix for file scope ( external to file )
/ prefix for global root scope
no prefix for local root scope ( traverse up to find a local root )

Path's are not absolute file system paths. So global does not literally mean the global root, just whatever is registered as a global or local. You'd never path something as c:\ or anything.

The actual inheritance is done via splitting a json name into two parts with a colon.

"goat:Animal":{ }

goat is the name. Animal is what it inherits from. The preprocessor doesn't really know or care what it means. It is just text.

To actually have the preprocessor do something you need to inherit something it knows about and the only thing that is is other .json files accessed via a path.

"goat:../Animal.json":{ }

goat is the name which inherits from the animal.json file that resides in the same directory as this file.

"goat:scripts/types/Animal.json":{ }

That'll inherit from the local root scope

"goat:/otherproject/types/Animal.json":{ }

That'll inherit from a different local root scope called otherproject.

"goat:../Animal.json/Goat":{ }

You can also go inside another file. This'll inherit Goat from inside the Animal.json file located in the same directory. Global and local root scope would also work.

"goat:./Goat":{ }

You can also locate within the same file. The parser is two pass so you can inherit from "objects" below the current object.

"goat:./something/else/Goat"

You can also go however deep you want into the file's json path too.

At this point I've not decided if I want to support arbitrary backtracking in paths ( dotdots. )

Future laptop choice

2009-04-25T20:08:00.001-07:00

The plan was to eventually pay the fat Apple tax and get the new 17" macbook. It really is quite nice, but I'm not so sure now.

For the last couple of days I've been living mostly in Win7 on my macbook and something just does not feel quite right. I just feel disconnected from my computer for some reason and it just might come down to something as simple as no physical page up/dn keys.

I use page up/dn a billion times a day. I should be used to the stupid way you have to do it on the macbook by now, but I am just not. Living in xcode I could pass it off as just one of 50 other annoying things, but now that I am back in Windows mostly.. I freak'n hate it.

So now I am thinking that it might make sense to get a PC laptop and see if I can get osx running on a partition for when I need to do iphone work. If that does not work I guess I can lug around two laptops. ugh.

Sales update + weekly

2009-03-16T07:06:00.001-07:00

15mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 52 .7 USD .99 USD US 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 13 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 8 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 8 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 5 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 4 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 3 .48 EUR .79 EUR FR 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR IE 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 2 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 2 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD RU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR 6 NOK NO 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD RU 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 EUR 0 DKK DK 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IT 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR BE 307810193 1003

09mar2009 - 15mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 130 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 86 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 65 .7 USD .99 USD US 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 29 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 12 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 9 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 7 0 GBP 0 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 6 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 4 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 4 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 4 .7 USD .99 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 4 0 AUD 0 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 4 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 3 .48 EUR .79 EUR IE 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 3 0 EUR 0 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 3 .48 EUR .79 EUR FR 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 3 .48 EUR .79 EUR FR 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .7 USD .99 USD RU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 2 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 2 0 EUR 0 CHF CH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR IE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 2 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR AT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR IT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR 1.1 CHF CH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR LU 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR BE 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 EUR 0 DKK DK 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR 6 NOK NO 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD CN 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD AE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR 7 SEK SE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 7 1 0 USD 0 USD CN 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD RU 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR 1.1 CHF CH 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 USD 0 USD CL 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 USD 0 MXN MX 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 81 JPY 115 JPY JP 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 EUR 0 EUR IT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iButterToast 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IT 307810193 1003
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD TH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 7 1 0 USD 0 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD IN 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 306007398 1001

Creating a minimal iphone app without a xib

2009-03-14T16:55:00.000-07:00

I can't stand interface builder and I don't want its garbage in my apps. This screencast shows how to create a minimal iphone app without the xib garbage.

noxib.html

iToiletPaper

2009-03-14T14:52:00.000-07:00

ok. Let's link this..

http://freedomhobby.com/iToiletPaper

appstore sales report

2009-03-14T14:41:00.000-07:00

13mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 14 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 7 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 2 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR AT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD CN 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 AUD 0 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 EUR 0 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 GBP 0 GBP GB 303491343 1000

12mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 20 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 10 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD TH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 AUD 0 AUD AU

11mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 28 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 16 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 10 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 4 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .48 EUR .79 EUR FR 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 GBP 0 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD RU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR AT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD AE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001

10mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 28 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 28 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 6 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 3 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 3 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 3 0 GBP 0 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 2 0 AUD 0 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 2 .7 USD .99 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 2 0 EUR 0 CHF CH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR FR 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 EUR 0 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD IN 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 USD 0 MXN MX 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR 7 SEK SE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR LU 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 EUR 0 EUR IT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 7 1 0 USD 0 USD CN 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 7 1 0 USD 0 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 1 0 USD 0 USD CL 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 303491343 1000

09mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 7 14 0 USD 0 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 5 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR 1.1 CHF CH 303491343 1000

08mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 17 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 1.4 USD 1.99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 303491343 1000

Sales report + weekly

2009-03-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

I missed a few days there..

08mar2009
iToiletPaper : 17 US , 1 GB , 1 NL
Particle Paint : 1 US

07mar2009
iToiletPaper : 21 US , 1 DE
Particle Paint : 1 US
Time File : 1 AU

06mar2009
iToiletPaper : 13 US , 1 GB , 1 VE
Time File : 1 US

02mar2009 to 08mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 135 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 5 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 4 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 2 .7 USD .99 USD US 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD CN 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR IT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR CZ 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 1.4 USD 1.99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR ES 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Time Fill 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 306462332 1002
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD VE

Sales report

2009-03-05T07:45:00.000-08:00

04mar2009
iToiletPaper : 25 US , 1 GB, 1 AU
Particle Paint : 1 US

I don't really understand why the iToiletPaper sales keep going up. Maybe it was posted somewhere that I don't know about? Maybe I am getting some sort of network effect. I'm baffled.

I think I am going to add the global highscores earlier than I was planning. I probably should start experimenting with cross-marketing the titles between apps.

Sales report

2009-03-04T08:43:00.000-08:00

03mar2009
iToiletPaper : 23 US
Time Fill : 1 US

Hey.. Someone bought Time Fill!

Last night I got an update build of iToiletPaper ready. I'll be uploading it today and we'll see what type of bump it gets after the approval.

sales report

2009-03-03T06:58:00.000-08:00

iToiletPaper : 19 US, 1 ES, 1 AU
Particle Paint : 3 US, 1 CZ
Time Fill : 0 Ouch!

Yesterday I added a games->racing secondary category to TP and that might be the cause of the bump. Maybe it'll stick.

The crap Time Fill showing was kinda expected. I was trying to find the bottom for a minimum app and it looks like I found it. I still think that it'll end up being worth my effort. I did learn a couple things, but even if it pulls in a sale here and there it'll pay for its 5 hours of work.

One super interesting thing I learned for the Time Fill release is apparently I didn't actually know how the live drop goes down. Here is my current understanding..

The live drop is the minimum of the "Ready for Sale" date and the date you set it to go live on. Which is horrible because you can't really control anything. You still need to play the daily bump game, but as soon as you see it go live you need to just push it into the store immediately.

So this week I have a couple of things to do.. Get those other two games out. Start another two games. Update the 3 apps in the store. Next week I think I might give a try at localizing actual app content.

Time fill app is up

2009-03-02T09:18:00.001-08:00

Wow. Be amazed!!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=306462332&mt=8

सलेस report

2009-03-02T07:11:00.001-08:00

Hmm. I think the title messup is related to some sort of auto-correcting. It only happens after a word is delimited by a space.

1mar2009
iToilet Paper : 11 US, 1 CA
Particle Paint : 1 US

I also have weekly sales

23feb2009 - 1mar2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 38 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 18 .7 USD .99 USD US 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 4 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 2 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 2 .48 EUR 1.1 CHF CH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD 10 MXN MX 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR BE 306007398 1001
Freedom Hobby LLC Particle Paint 1 1 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 306007398 1001

Here's the first week one since I don't think I posted it in full..

16feb2009 - 22feb2009
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 61 .7 USD .99 USD US 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 7 .36 GBP .59 GBP GB 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 3 .76 AUD 1.19 AUD AU 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 3 .48 EUR .79 EUR DE 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR ES 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 USD .99 USD CL 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR 1.1 CHF CH 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR AT 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .7 CAD .99 CAD CA 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR 6 DKK DK 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR CZ 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR FR 303491343 1000
Freedom Hobby LLC iToiletPaper 1 1 .48 EUR .79 EUR NL 303491343 1000

सलेस report

2009-03-01T08:57:00.000-08:00

Uhh.. I dunno why my titles are in another language up. Go blogger!

I don't think I put up sales for Friday. Here they are..

iToiletPaper: 5 US
Particle Paint: 1 US

Ouch for Particle Paint!

Saturday's sales were unexpectedly high consider how shit they were last week..

iToiletPaper: 11 US
Particle Paint: 4 US, 1 GB

Time Fill is ready for sale but I'm holding off until tomorrow to make it go live. This will be an interesting one since it is so incredibly basic ( even compared to iToiletPaper )

न्यू अप्प

2009-02-27T10:28:00.000-08:00

I'm getting rather frustrated with the performance of the iphone. This is not the third time I have brought a prototype to near completion to find shitty performance. My apps have been very simple too. One interesting bit is that all three of these poor performing apps were doing in Unity. So maybe Unity is the real problem. The device is "just" powerful enough to make something and the Unity overhead pushes over into the shit.

So maybe I'll get the App I have been working on for the last two days out today. Maybe not.

Sales update

2009-02-27T08:02:00.000-08:00

I decided to stop spamming facebook with status updates about this, so stuff like this will mostly be here now.

Particle Paint : 5 US, 1 CA
iToiletPaper : 4 US, 3 GB

Mind control your lights

2008-12-07T22:48:00.000-08:00

anti-patent.

You can now buy some magical device to stick on your head to control a game with your brain. If you could track locations either absolute or relative to your head you could control things as you walk around. There are a lot of ways to track objects absolute / relative to other objects ( ultra-sonic, camera, etc. )

So knowing the location of an object relative to your head ( or absolute of both ) you could train yourself/device to activate that object. A good use would be all the lights in your house. For most any point of view there would only be a few visual and they would not usually be near each other. If you could train yourself/device to operate in only a very quantized version of your FOV you could easily control lights even if you are walking around. You just look at the light and it could be turned on and off at will.