June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
0 posts
March 2011
2 posts
diy etching solution →
he doesn’t give exact amounts but it looks like 4 parts vinegar, 1 part hydrogen peroxide and a teaspoon of salt.
February 2011
2 posts
thermocouple vs. thermistor →
A thermocouple measures the temperature of a point, whereas a thermistor measures the temperature of an area. The thermistor here has been calibrated using the thermocouple. So they may just be measuring different things. That said, they’re pretty close.
Relative temperature is more important than absolute temperature. If relative measurements are correct (i.e. the difference between...
January 2011
1 post
balancing a pencil →
this is actually three bits of advanced tech. first is the interesting gantry system design, which moves the cup, second is the AI control system, which balances the pencil and finally the retina design, which feeds back the pencil position into the control system.
December 2010
1 post
cut some cash to a flattr account to support the things I love online.
November 2010
5 posts
the other 3 billion →
google’s attempt to be the biggest ISP in the world, launching 8 satellites in 2013.
coffeedate
a vaporware program in which you broadcast your availability for coffee during certain hours. If someone from your friends list also broadcasts their availability, both people are notified. If GPS is enabled, relative distance can be an additional criteria.
Privacy is inherent as information is exchanged if and only if there is mutual availability. GPS zones can be set in which you do (or...
visualising the afghan war log
a manual for every device →
world fencing championships →
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
2 posts
Watchworth watching the sequel too.
http://esw.w3.org/WebID#How_does_this_compare_with_OpenID.3F
Watchbeing able to print your own pcbs has far more reaching implications than extruded ABS.
July 2010
6 posts
unfortunately, even the best laid plans go astray. for those considering it, the pixel qi screen is NOT compatible with a lenovo S10-3 (even if it fit in the case, which it doesn’t). the best result I could derive from this was to edit the relevant wikipedia article so as to inform others, and keep looking for an S10-2.
the formalisation of society →
June 2010
1 post
html5 shortcomings →
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
3 posts
Pixel Qi DIY kits on sale 2010Q2 →
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
2 posts
INTERNET IN SPACE →
I don’t think there is enough hype over this. We are in the future. We have internet in space. I mean COME ON. locate THAT google maps!
(Actually, according to google maps, the international space station is in Florida.)
http://www.littlebirdelectronics.com/pages/meetup-d... →
catch Marcus and shake him until arduinos fall out. Free arduinos for all!
December 2009
2 posts
Watch<3
November 2009
3 posts
This isn’t getting enough attention. The UNSW has commercialised a vanadium redox battery (a battery with liquid cathode and anode and a solid electrolyte) with multiple demonstrations, including a 2.5MW wind farm on King Island, Tasmania.
A similar device developed at MIT is an entirely liquid battery (liquid cathode, anode and electrolyte that remain separate due to their different...
October 2009
4 posts
NIN fan produced dvd →
NIN, continuing to push the boundaries. It can truly be said that the fans form part of this band.
Watchbeing a supporter of individual liberties online (read: paranoid), I’ve been following freenet development. I’m also interested in distributed computing (the internet is, after all, a massively parallel computer with no downtime). Now, these things have been combined in swarm.
the pirate bunker →
not only will they outlive threats from the entertainment industry, they may yet outlive us all.
August 2009
4 posts
fruits of the previous post’s script. a nice...
I’m sick of bad flash players that internet radio stations use. So I wrote a simple shell script to play a station. Substitute your favourite station and player.
1. Copy this into a new text file (say, play_radio.sh)
FILE=/tmp/stream-`date +%H%M-%d%b%G`.mp3 STATION=http://live.citr.ca:8000/stream.mp3 PLAYER=mp3blaster echo “buffering to ‘$FILE’…” terminal -x...
July 2009
4 posts
“Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small...”
– Linus Torvalds. “Open source” is increasingly being seen by companies as a way to come up with an idea and outsource your labour to people who will work for free.
chrome extensions are web pages! (chrome extensions are web pages).
usually, after getting all excited about new software, I end up breaking my system. fortunately, my idiocy is balanced with paranoia, and, after destroying the root partiton last night, I managed a full recovery with SystemRescueCd and a recent image.
the advent of a <video> tag in the new HTML 5 standard has caused a standoff between stakeholders in internet video as to which codec is adopted. a good discussion of this is here. a comparison between the two competing standards is here.
of that comparison, the ogg theora video loaded in firefox 3.5 natively. the other one didn’t. that pretty much decided it for me. looks like brower...
June 2009
1 post
April 2009
2 posts
a talk on copyright by Lawrence Lessig, well worth...
