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GLSL Sandbox on the Raspberry Pi
I hope many of you have seen the excellent and fun WebGL GLSL sandbox at http://glsl.heroku.com/. This live editing of shaders is an excellent learning tool, as it allows you to watch the consequences...
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RaspberryPi birdfeeder webcam
This isn’t so much a Howto (as other people have already written that up very nicely) but a post on what I am using one of my Pi’s for. The first gotcha is that for some unknown reason, the default,...
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CBM 1000 thermal printer hack
(Rescuing this page from the spam-ridden pbworks Microprinter wiki) Notes and settings I used to get this printer to work and accept input. The main problem with this printer is the low baud rate...
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RETRACT ALL THE THINGS!
PLoS has just put out an editiorial titled “The role of retractions in correcting the scientific literature” where they make a number of suggestions around retracting papers once the consensus of...
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Why ignorance can be helpful and Learned Helplessness
I’ve had a bit of a problem for the past few months. I couldn’t seem to finish and write about any of my personal projects. I felt blocked. I’d sit at my desk, staring at a mostly blank draft post,...
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Birthdays and Boardgames
Monopoly is the game that killed my interest in boardgames. Why? Its depressingly long-winded, yawnsome play is based more on luck than skill. The crushing inevitable win by the player who got ahead...
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Open Source Cola –“Cube Cola”
From their site: Standing on the Hands of Giants We are wildcrafting our own cola from an open source recipe reverse-engineered from the original Coke. A process merging domestic and scientific...
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Exploring Locksmithing and Lockpicking as an intellectual pursuit
I am fascinated by complex things and always have been, whether they are mechanical, chemical, mathematical or other, similarly elegant pieces of “clockwork”. I was the clichéd kid repeatedly told off...
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Gloomy education? (Creative writing and card games)
This isn’t a rant about the state of modern education. Rather, I want to talk about a somewhat melancholy card game called ‘Gloom’ (info) (amazon). Gloom is a game of “inauspicious incidents and grave...
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Conway’s Game of Life, interpreted in sound.
Some videos you find on Youtube fill you with questions. Questions like ‘why did I just spend 2 minutes of my life watching that?’ or ‘what is this?’ Sometimes though, you find videos that fill you...
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