Sven Krasser's Blog

To watch SpaceX’s Hakuto-R M1 launch, my wife Shannon and I made the trip to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in November. Alongside the primary mission consisting of a lunar lander and two rovers, the launch will also get the Lunar Flashlight CubeSat mission on its way to the moon, which Shannon worked on. Lunar Flashlight will enter lunar orbit to search for water ice using its laser.

October has been busy with travel. After coming back from a work trip to Goa to meet the CrowdStrike Data Science team members in India, I’ve embarked on a road trip with my wife with stops in Yosemite and Napa to then return home along the Pacific Coast Highway. In addition, we managed to make a brief visit to Sacramento to see the city and to spend a few hours at AmiWest for a quick retrocomputing fix. Here are some pictures from our journey through California, taken with my Fuji X100T.

After releasing my Commodore 64 game project on the Zzap! 64 covermount disk a couple of weeks ago, you can now download the latest version directly from Itch.io (see link below).

My Commodore 64 game project has now been officially released and is available on the covermount disk of Zzap! 64 Magazine Issue #10. You can get a copy from the magazine’s Patreon page.

Since last year, a lot more coyotes have been moving into the neighborhood. Here are a couple of pictures of one that likes to lay out in the sun shining on our backyard hill. Captured with a Nikon Z 6II and Nikkor Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR.

Here are some pictures from a recent trip to Maui. Above the surface cameras: Fuji X100T and iPhone XS; below the surface: GoPro Hero 4 Black.

Recently I found a tad more time to work on my C64 game, Cab Hustle. There is also a new video on my YouTube channel showing some of the changes (you can watch it at the bottom of this post). Let’s take a look at where things stand and what is new since my last post about the game.

There are a couple of new articles I penned in recent months on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in cybersecurity:

• How Human Intelligence is Supercharging CrowdStrike’s Artificial Intelligence – CrowdStrike Blog
• Why AI is now Table-Stakes in Cybersecurity – Digitalisation World

And in case you’re also a German speaker:

While my next sewing project has seen little progress (I’ve been working on a knit t-shirt, but the stretchy fabric is killing me), my wife just published a new post on her blog about her adventures sewing, wiring, and programming space pants with Arduino-driven twinkling stars, i.e. LEDs.

The most recent family trip was to go skiing in Mammoth, CA, and I brought my latest lens with me, the TTArtisan 11mm F2.8 Fisheye. It’s my second third-party lens for the Nikon Z system. Like my Tokina SZX 400mm f/8, the TTArtisan is a manual focus non-CPU lens. But those commonalities aside, it is the polar opposite of the Tokina. It has a fast f/2.8 maximum aperture (exclusively controlled over an aperture ring since the lens does not exchange any data with the camera) in contrast to the slow fixed f/8 aperture of the Tokina. And with a focal length of 11mm it is squarely in the ultrawide angle territory, compared to the Tokina with its 400mm super-telephoto focal length at the other end of the spectrum. It ships in a nicely designed box, and considering its compact dimensions it brings some weight to the table: 439g according to the manufacturer.