Tom Leverstone
A blog about a mixture of hobbies, work, and other interests
bibo is a command line reference manager with a single source of truth: the .bib file. It is inspired by beets. After 3 years in the making I believe it's ready for other people to use.
What are the advantages over mendeley / zotero / etc. you ask …
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After more than 4 years online, the Krihelinator was shut down today. The idea behind this project was to propose an alternative to github's trading page by highlighting projects with high contribution rate instead of stars. I'm a bit sorry to let this project go, as it was one of …
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Yet again, I have a new portfolio site. Actually, it's just a redesign. Wanted to simplify the previous over-the-top site. Check it out at leverstone.me. Here's a reminder for how the old one looked like.
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As if there were not enough different topics mashed together in the blog, here's another one. I'm into board games, and recently got Dead of Winter: The Long Night. This blog post is about the box the game came in, and what I did to make it usable.
Below you …
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I recently drawn into the rabbit hole of modular synthesis. This week I finished building my first eurorack case. It's a 3U 84hp skiff. Or in humans language, it is a relatively small, beginners sized case, to accommodate my first modules.
I have access to a laser cutter …
In a previous post I wrote about my assignments for the sound recording module I took as part of my PhD. Here, I will present the projects of the Interactive Digital Multimedia Techniques module.
In the first major project of the module we were required to find …
I recently shared some of my first experiences as a PhD student in the Media and Arts Technology program, Queen Mary University of London. Now, when the first term is over and the second one is about to begin, it is a good time to show the projects I have …
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My band, Malinka, released a new video. It's the first release from our live session at Mooki's Raphsoda, so expect more to come... Meanwhile, you can come and here us live:
This project convert sign-language / gestures to speech. You can read more about it on github or in my site. I just uploaded a video demo of the project. Feel free to comment.
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The following animated renditions are a byproduct of the video tracking an analysis of my MA thesis second experiment.
The figure above shows a schematic diagram of the experiment design. The videos are of session 1 to 3 of each of the groups (the last session wasn't analyzed). They have …
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