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New WiFi Arduino released – MKR1000(arduino.cc)
5 points by bjpirt 11y ago|2 comments
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by bjpirt 11y ago
Robot maker here so had to chime in with an obligatory plug :-) I produce Mirobot which is designed to teach kids about everything from the engineering aspects of how it's built to programming it using a number of different methods. It
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BBC micro:bit delayed until 2016, predictably(wired.co.uk)
1 points by bjpirt 11y ago|0 comments
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by bjpirt 11y ago
The article is wrong (at least partially!) - the module they used (the ESP-01) only has a limited number of pins brought out, but the chip itself has a 10 bit ADC on board and there are plenty of modules that bring out the pins. I've b
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by bjpirt 11y ago
I'm sad that it didn't work out, but kudos to you for doing this. Behaving decently feels like it's becoming an increasingly rare attribute of doing business these days. I'm curious if you feel it could have worked out d
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by bjpirt 11y ago
Maybe it should be 2002 words, if a picture is worth 1000 words.
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by bjpirt 11y ago
I hadn't realised that the barge was called "Just Read The Instructions" and it's just brightened up my day to see life imitating art like this. The names of the spaceships in Iain M. Banks' Culture series is one of
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by bjpirt 12y ago
Great name - nice Asimov reference
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by bjpirt 12y ago
That's a good professional resignation letter - keep those bridges unburnt and leave on a positive note.
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by bjpirt 12y ago
This might be of interest for getting rid of that command prompt window: https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-...
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by bjpirt 12y ago
I only had about 2 of my roughly 500 pledges that didn't go through when it came to the time to collect the cash.
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by bjpirt 12y ago
Cassandra is very good at storing ordered sets of data which you can then pull out the nearest value to a key. There are a load of layers on top of this that are more specifically time-series which it probably makes sense to use rather than
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by bjpirt 12y ago
I found this a frank and pretty fascinating inside view of how hackers operate in the wild. Thanks to whoever it was for publishing it. It's a must-read for anyone running any kind of IT services. Well worth running through these steps
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by bjpirt 12y ago
It makes me very happy to hear this. I've always been sad that the initial promise of Pachube being an open place to store and exchange data was subsumed by corporate overlords. This is as close to the mindset of the original Pachube
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5 things I've learned from doing a Kickstarter(mirobot.io)
1 points by bjpirt 12y ago|0 comments
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by bjpirt 12y ago
Thanks for the link - I've used OpenSCAD previously and enjoyed how easy it was to do parametric modelling but grew frustrated with its interface and a bunch of other annoyances. I'd been wondering about making an online version t
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by bjpirt 12y ago
I think the node one is http://cylonjs.com/ All are pretty great, and I'm looking forward to adding support for Mirobot ( http://mirobot.io )
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by bjpirt 12y ago
Thank you! It's what really got to me about existing robots for schools - they don't give you any insight as to how they work. Hopefully this one will...
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Mirobot – a WiFi robotics kit for kids(kickstarter.com)
3 points by bjpirt 12y ago|2 comments
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by bjpirt 13y ago
When I first read this headline I just assumed he'd had a child. Low paying: check Early morning: check Exertion requiring: check Not that it's not extremely worth it of course.
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by bjpirt 13y ago
Try Gandi: http://wiki.gandi.net/en/contacts/login/2-factor-activation (note to self: activate 2FA)
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by bjpirt 13y ago
I love these cheap linux modules that keep on springing up. I was just wondering whether DPTechnics actually designed and built this themselves or just ordered a bunch in from China - it looks identical to this module I found on Alibaba: h
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by bjpirt 13y ago
This is a great article, and although it may raise the ire of some of the REST purists out there, I completely agree with the pragmatic approach. It prompted me to finally publish some of my thoughts on API design that complement the more t
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User-centred API Design(pirt.co.uk)
3 points by bjpirt 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjpirt 13y ago
Fantastic project! My wife and I spent the day making rings for each other here: http://www.weddingringworkshop.co.uk/cms.php?pageid=2 which is highly recommended, but sadly we didn't have the option to add an inductively powered LED ligh
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by bjpirt 14y ago
The statuspage.io link on that meta page is broken btw - the : is missing from the url. Edit: really like the service - considering using it for our status page
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Software I love - what's your favourite software?(pirt.co.uk)
1 points by bjpirt 14y ago|0 comments
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by bjpirt 14y ago
Location: London, UK We're hiring at Cosm ( http://cosm.com ) - we're a service for getting devices onto the Internet of Things We're looking for good developers (Ruby, but other languages are always interesting) and have an excellent engin
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Hybrid SQL / NoSQL with PostgreSQL and Backbone.js(pirt.co.uk)
6 points by bjpirt 14y ago|0 comments
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by bjpirt 14y ago
I'd been meaning to publish this post on doing a similar thing with Backbone and Node.js. Now seems as good a time as any... http://pirt.co.uk/post/25095198148/hybrid-sql-nosql

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