Robert L. McIntyre's blog

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science, programming, ideas

Ideas Page

A list of all the ideas I've had that I felt like writing down for the past ~ 8 years. Some of them could be practical inventions and are "just" waiting the that 95% perspiration to bring them to fruition, some are ideas for science fiction, and some are simple observations.

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How-to Guides
Major Projects

Cortex: a virtual world for sensate AI (2014)

My MEng thesis at MIT, which won the 2014 Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Award — 1st Place! All code and text for the thesis is freely licensed.
Download PDF of thesis »     Download source code (cortex-1.0.0.tar.bz2) »

Demonstrations

  1. Creating a Virtual World
  2. Utilities that Integrate jMonkeyEngine3 into Clojure
  3. Showing off: Games and Examples

Sensors and effectors

  1. Preamble: auxillary functions
  2. Building a Body
  3. Vision
  4. Hearing
  5. Touch
  6. Proprioception
  7. Movement
  8. Integration

Pokémon Yellow Total Control Hack (2013)

Just by buying and rearranging certain items and pressing certain buttons in Pokémon Yellow, you can get the game into a state where you can completely reprogram it from the inside. It's the first hack of its kind, and it won a TAS award.

Guide to the Pokémon Yellow total control hack »

Small projects
Essays