James Fator

Iron Man VR

28 January 2020

I was messing around in Unity for the first time and made a VR app which allows you to fly around like Iron Man using the Oculus Touch controllers.

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WIRED article

22 March 2017

I was mentioned in a WIRED article. That's pretty cool, but I've got to give credit to Sajid Anwar for continuing the effort in Radiant Player. I never had intention on extending it like he did and I think it's a much better experience because of his work.

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Dumb smart lock

12 February 2017

I made a thing. Here's how I made this thing using 3D printing.

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Finishing school, starting Facebook

05 April 2016

I started this blog as a way for me to post the cool stuff I made and use it as a journal through my academic career. With that said, I'm finishing up school, about to graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at RIT.

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Controlling YouTube and Netflix with the media keys

05 January 2016

It would be cool if I could press the play/pause button on my headset and cause the current video I'm watching to react accordingly. A feature like this has already been built in the form of a Chrome extension, but there were a few tweaks I wanted to make.

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Plex Player - Creating standalone media apps from web pages

07 April 2015

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The Google Music Mac (GMM) project has been really popular among people who use Google Play's All Access service. It's only a bit of code wrapped around a web page though, which means if other web apps behave similarly to the Google Play Music page, we can create a standalone app that takes advantage of the OS X media keys for that web page simply by replacing a URL.

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Script to enable and configure password-less SSH logins

11 March 2015

This isn't anything new, there are plenty of sites out there that show you how to do this. Those sites show you step by step what to do, which is great and all, but I want a script, dammit!

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Quick and dirty web app for testing

10 March 2015

The WattBuddy app that I have been working on with WattB scans residential electric meters with nothing more than an iPhone camera. This gives home owners that don't have smart meters the ability to track their usage in as much depth as they would like.

During development, I want a way to test the meter reading features in different configurations and that led to the creation of this simple web app. Using very basic HTML and Javascript, I came up with a web app that simply overlays images of dials over a blank image of an electric meter.

Check it out here!

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