Posts on Ivan Hawkes

All HTML Elements on one Page

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A test page for CSS.

Windows 10 - Moving In

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Moving into a fresh Windows 10 installation. A short list of useful software I usually install.

First Steps with FPGA

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The title of this post suggests that this is the first step into programming an FPGA, but that’s not quite true. We need to take a few steps back into the past to see the real truth.

Jump back 31 years and you will find a very young version of me taking his first steps into the world of computing. My options at this point are limited in ways I wouldn’t be able to see for decades.

Building A Joystick (Part 1)

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The long and boring story of how I went from a 12 year old boy in the 80’s to a 50 year old man in the 2020’s making a joystick to play retro-arcade games from the 80’s.

Building A Cheap Motion Capture Studio

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A while back I became interested in motion capture as a means to easily get basic animations into the game I am working on. Using reasonably priced software from Brekel and a cheap Microsoft Xbox Kinect camera you have the beginnings of a motion capture setup.

Overcoming Inertia

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A few weeks have passed with very little development occurring. I have hit that most dangerous of problems, the lack of inertia.