Michael Christen

Recent Posts

  • May 19, 2015

    Tainan & Kaohsiung

    Tainan (5/17 - 5/18)Forces had been conspiring around Andy and I, mainly his aunt andHsuia-Sheng, and they contrived to send us to Tainan, the home of heruncle’s. So, before we knew it Andy and I were being whisked away on abus to Tainan, along wi...

  • May 14, 2015

    Hualien & The Taroko Gorge

    Biking in HualienAfter getting plenty of sleep to counter my jet-lag, I awoke for mysecond day in Taiwan and was introduced to the newest member of ourentourage, a friend of Andy’s cousin. Her name was Hsuia-Sheng, andwas a very outspoken woman. S...

  • May 11, 2015

    First Travel Entry / Getting to Taiwan

    I’ve been keeping a travel journal while I’ve been embarked on thistwo and a half month rollercoaster of a vacation and I’ve been tryingto figure out how to distribute it to other people. I was thinking ofhaving a write up for each country I staye...

  • March 09, 2015

    Making a Digital Oscilloscope UI

    I previously setup a way for C / C++ programs to communicate to a JSclient using Thrift. Now, I want to use that framework to actuallybuild a nice frontend for the Digilent AnalogDiscovery. My friend Sam Oliver helped me by buildingthe frontend pa...

  • March 02, 2015

    Making a Simple UI for C Programs

    I’m working on a frontend application for the Digilent AnalogDiscoverywith Sam Oliver. Digilent offers a fairly straightforward SDK tocontrol and query the Discovery module with a .dll that is availablefrom a C program. I’m working on controlling ...