Nothing important here, just some last minute ramblings while reflecting back on 2011… January – Spoke at the ATT Developer’s Conference about a few of my Android projects February – Bought my first DSLR: a Nikon D3100 March – Discovered HDR photography April – Released first version of ViewerCV into the wild (Android Market) May … Read more
April 2011 Abstract As a final project for my Computational Photography class at Georgia Tech, I created an application that uses a single video camera to create tonemapped HDR images in real time. This project’s inspiration comes from Soviet Montage Production’s DSLR HDR video. The app runs on Linux PCs (using USB or Firewire … Read more
I got an incredible opportunity to travel to Las Vegas and give a short talk at the 2011 AT&T Developer Summit on a few of the cool Android projects I’ve done in school. I was given only ~5 minutes to present 3 of my projects: RoadBump, FeedSpeak, and SPRIME – giving a student’s perspective on Android programming. … Read more
May 2010 FeedSpeak reads your Google Reader RSS news feeds aloud to you using Text-To-Speech. FeedSpeak started as a class project, but I now continue development on my own free time. Read the XDA-Developers blog post about FeedSpeak! (Note: reviewed for v1.9.6) FeedSpeak Pro for Android on AppBrain FeedSpeak Lite for Android on AppBrain … Read more
April 2010 Simple Powerline Remote Interactive Monitor and Enforcer SPRIME is an outlet that allows you to monitor power consumption and control power usage remotely, using a computer or even an Android phone. SPRIME is an open-source smart-grid technology. SPRIME GT-RNOC poster: SPRIME pictures: Awards SPRIME has made it on Hack-a-day! SPRIME has won … Read more
April 2010 I find graphics card programming fascinating. I presented a UROC Poster on GPGPU Molecular Dynamics analysis and visualization on the GPU at the 2010 Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium. I also had a cool demo set up of the system running (above), along with my Android bonds visualization client.
These are just a few examples fresh in my head to write about. The Simple Powerline Remote Interactive Monitor and Enforcer (SPRIME) started as a simple open source class project. It turned out to be much more… The GaTech Convergence Innovation Competition happened to be going on at the same time. Our SPRIME project technically … Read more
I just upgraded from the original Droid to the Droid X. Since PCWorld’s article comparing the original Droid and the new Droid X is just sad, I decided to do my own comparison. I’ll do my best to list some first impressions, and highlight the key differences between the phones, based on actually owning and using … Read more
Yesterday, I was stoked about FeedSpeak getting posted on the front page of the xda-developers site! This was totally unexpected and definitely made my day. A few days ago, a friend had recommended that I advertise the app in the xda-developers forum, so I created a simple post for FeedSpeak Pro. After posting though, I learned … Read more
My name is Chris McClanahan In my [little] spare time, I am passionate about photography and technology. Academic / Professional Chris McClanahan is a senior software engineer at Google, focusing on on-device computer vision. He has a M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and previously worked on 3D 360 VR video stitching at Condition One, … Read more