TheZenPsycho

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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
It can do things other than be a candle. For example, you can hook it up to your tinderbox and have it alert you when the build fails, with each LED cooresponding to different thingies. If you wish.
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
There is a spreadsheet publically available. The short answer is that the way kickstarter works, 65% of whatever you take goes back out as rewards,fees,etc and It takes ~250k to tool up for manufacture. Other kickstarter hardware projects t
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
It's also a full linux computer with networking capabilities. But you know, picking nits. You are quite right though. It's not 3D when you are watching it in a 2D video.
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Show HN: A candle animation, a volume renderer, and a bundle of LEDs(dev.moorescloud.com)
21 points by TheZenPsycho 14y ago|17 comments
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
The Mythical Man Month. When it comes to software, uniformly accepting and mentoring newcomers into a project does not bring uniformly good return- and in many or most cases, will result in NEGATIVE return, that is, a bad developer can caus
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
As a fellow ABC co-worker, and platform dev on the light, Thank you.
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
Much the same could be said of most electronics. Toys gadgets gizmos. This is hacker news so I wonder how this sentiment belongs here. Nevertheless, there is a conceptual barrier here that is difficult to cross, and it has to do with the ex
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
So I have been working on an antialiased vector drawing library for the Light (called 'wuvoxels'). now the nice thing about the wuvoxel approach is that it can scale across multiple lights seamlessly- allowing software to be written that wi
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by TheZenPsycho 14y ago
clearly it's an idea whose time has come since i had almost exactly the same idea last saturday https://twitter.com/zenpsycho/status/269678506475151362 and then followed through a day later https://twitter.com/zenpsycho/status/2699422253