uweschmidt.org

While a visiting student in Canada, I blogged occasionally (in German) to let my family and friends know what I was doing abroad. I used Wordpress for that purpose, which was set up as a farewell gift by a friend (who also happens to be my webhost).
When I launched my personal website (the site you're currently viewing), I decided to use Drupal but still have the old blog up in a "read-only" state.

As time went by, the Wordpress installation aged and security concerns arose due to the inevitable discovery of bugs in popular software.

On January 27, my friend Lucas sent me a link to Johnny Lee's head-tracking video on YouTube. I thought it was really cool what could be done with the Wiimote. I had no idea that it contains such a powerful camera and even does image processing. I checked out Johnny's other projects and found the Whiteboard to be the most immediately useful.

At times like this, I'm happy that I keep all sorts of electronics even if I don't know whether I'll ever use them again. My brother brought his PlayStation 2 (1) with him and wanted to connect it to a TV in order to play Pro Evolution Soccer. Unfortunately, there is no ordinary TV left in his old room because he took it with him when he moved out a while ago. So we assembled some spare electronics to get it to work...