- Alan N. Federman, PhD -

"Back off man, I really am a rocket scientist."

Down to Earth Rocket Science:

Science Media Presentations(Real Media, PowerPoints)
Quest.nasa.gov Webmaster, 1996-99, Sys admin 96-99, 2002-2005 This site now uses the NASA compliant frame.
It uses a lot of Javascript, but no JSP or Tomcat.
Observatorium Migrated web site - maintained 1999-2005. No longer in the NASA domain.
Observatorium JAVA and JavaScript demos
Windows to the Universe One of many mirrors maintained as part of NASA's Learning Technologies Project (1998-2005).
Robotics.nasa.gov Webmaster 1999-2003, contributor. This site uses PHP
Celestia example of Web recursive application - an interesting OpenSource software.
Western Region Robotics Forum PHP + JavaScript, managed 11/2006 - 5/2008.
NASA WorldWind Makes Google Digital Earth look pallid. Written in C# - uses XML and WML(web mapping language) Open Source.
Calendar My First perl/unix application (1995).
Weather Activity Perl Scripts, 1996. Published article (pdf)

Streaming Media

My Favorite Webcast! The Learning Technologies Project really pioneered web based distance learning.
Sample Technologies

Robotics:

FIRST robotics - won National Championship, 2000

Botball - won National Championship 2001

FIRST Home Page

RoboNexus I'm speaking 10/09/05!

The P-plan Multi Media site for my lecture on Team Success

In 2004 and 2005 I mentored Team 254. They were Chairman Award Winners - Team 254 website.

Servo Magazine, Jan, 2006 PMP Pneumatically Influenced Mobility Platfom - rover design article.

Servo Magazine, Sep, 2007 Solar Charger - article.

My Robots in Action - Real Media and YouTube Video Clips

SENSORS
RealPlayer required, will open in separate window.
This is an actual run of the program, you can see the
lego robot getting instructions (the usually invisible)
infrared LEDs flash. The wire is for power - the batteries
in a LEGO brick are not recharge-able and would die every
3 hours if left on. After the robot returns to 'base'
it sends the results of it mission to a spreadsheet for
downloading and analysis. The web site ran from 2001 to 2005.
It was shut down due to NASA security concerns.
The site ran on a single Windows 2000 box using Inet and asp.

Planetary Mobile Platform
This is the pneumatic rocker bogey chasis I built as an
experiment, and wrote up in 'Servo' Magazine.

Personal Exploration Rover
The PER(personal exploration rover) was designed by Illah
Nourbakhsh of Carnegie-Mellon University to teach robotics
to the general public. PER displays are at the Exploratorium,
National Air and Space Museum and NASA.I had one (2003-2008) of
of the 30 in service.

GoPHR General Purpose Household Robot

This is a prototype for an assisted living or telerobotic
robotic servant. Project started in 2009.
YouTube Video - in operation
YouTube Video - hardware explanation

Image Gallery A walk down memory lane.
View Resume in MS-Word .doc format.

This page uses a simple css.

Thanks for Visiting.

Experiments in Web Technologies

 
CSIX migration(June '09)  I am volunteering to help
www.csix.org  redesign and upgrade a 2003 vintage php site. First,
we need to get the old site cloned and fix the broken links(Check).
Then we will replace the old php pages with current ones.
Finally, the new art work and menu/navigation widgets will be applied.

 My 'new' twitter blog.
 Does Perl Work?
 Does Python Work?
 PHP Info on this site.
 First Stab at a 'VisualCV'(Dull Knife)
LAMP Stack Demo (Password required)


Stupid Cell Phone Tricks HTML/WML/PHP/XML 


This is a project examining if it would be possible to have a 
'virtual' cell phone on the web. This would be a replacement phone in
case I lost or broke my cell phone while away from home.

Phish Proof Email Java Applet Test: