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by callumprentice 11mo ago
https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind... My daughter and I made this 10 years ago for the NASA Space Apps Challenge and I notified a whole bunch of folk at NASA but never heard anything back
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by callumprentice 2y ago
I keep meaning to get back to my suite of equirectangular image functions - viewers, editors, authoring etc. and this reminded me to resurrect the Viewer. https://equinaut.surge.sh/?eqr=https://raw.githubuserconten
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by callumprentice 2y ago
There is one in the Three.JS example suite with source: https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_loader_usdz.html
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by callumprentice 2y ago
I have a real soft spot for Lisbon and Nazare - hoping to live there one day after I retire. Lots of similarities with the last city I lived in - San Francisco: Big red suspension bridge that spans the gateway to the ocean (same vendor), ca
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by callumprentice 2y ago
Oh wow - thank you. I can't wait to re-read it.
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by callumprentice 2y ago
Crocodiles are scary. I remember reading a short story as a young man where a heart surgeon discovered crocs had over centuries, developed a chronic cardiac condition that left them comparatively sluggish and 'weak. He kept operating
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by callumprentice 2y ago
Nice. I felt the same way - read that book from cover to cover many times. I could never afford a BBC Micro when that came out and certainly not the Archimedes but I always admired from afar.
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by callumprentice 2y ago
Good grief - 64K - what on earth did you do with all that storage :)
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by callumprentice 2y ago
I purchased an Acorn Atom in 1980 (the prebuilt one - a friend opted for the self-assembly and regretted it) and I still remember the thrill of setting it up and turning it on for the first time. It feels like I didn't sleep for a wee
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by callumprentice 2y ago
Yes that’s the one.
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by callumprentice 2y ago
I’ve turned off all my social media feeds and use Tapestry now which presents posts from some of them in pure chronological order. This include this site, Bluesky, RSS feeds, YouTube and more. I am enjoying it a lot. I no longer see Faceboo
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by callumprentice 2y ago
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2007/03/second-lifes-resp... Our legal dept (person) did this in 2007 and it made me so happy.
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by callumprentice 2y ago
He would get so excited by the challenge of fitting the miles and miles of pipes efficiently into a small 3D space and it was of course long before the advent of computers so he had to figure it out in his head. I remember having an Atari 4
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by callumprentice 2y ago
My dad was a draughtsman and worked on the piping layouts for some of these reactors. We used to spend hours talking about them and he would often sketch out portions of the design from memory. He passed away on my 50th birthday (quite so
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by callumprentice 2y ago
My first thought at seeing something pretty in so few bytes was: “perhaps you could just run through every value in each of those 484 bytes and find other gems in there too” then I did the math - or tried to… :)
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by callumprentice 3y ago
That makes sense.
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by callumprentice 3y ago
fascinating - thank you!
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by callumprentice 3y ago
I don't think that's an axe, I think it's a (poorly drawn) tip of a tube of YELLOW paint.
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by callumprentice 3y ago
https://fxtwitter.com/ShimminyKricket/status/172562744637490...
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Thanks for all that info and the links. Much appreciated.
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Thanks for the links - I was actually looking for a new Camo stand and those look handy. The idea is that the desktop would send the content of the rectangle occluded by the phone screen and the phone displays it, appropriately tweaked, tin
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Some of the things I considered: * Connecting wirelessly to the computer would be ideal. Camo and Apple's own Continuity Camera do this so it's certainly possible * There should be a computer companion app that lets you tweak the
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by callumprentice 3y ago
I use the Camo software that turns my phone into a webcam and the quality is astounding but it still suffers from the "appear to be looking elsewhere" issue. I have sketched out a design for a bracket that dangles your phone upsid
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Dismayed by recent news, my 12 yo and I made a 3D temperature anomaly viz(callumprentice.github.io)
2 points by callumprentice 3y ago|4 comments
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Dismayed by all the terrible climate news recently, my 12 year old daughter and I spent a weekend making a 3D version of the ubiquitous Climate Spiral visualization - she's hoping to present it at her school.
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Somewhat related, I came across a YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival ) that I never would have guessed I'd enjoy but now I am hooked. The host disassembles a high-end mechanical watch each episo
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Interesting - thank you. Near the top of my bucket list too.
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Thank you but that's a bit far from me in SoCal.. I do see a lot of out of state plates in shopping malls here for some reason so one day, I plan to explore a couple.
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by callumprentice 3y ago
A few years ago, I set out to take a snapshot of a plate from every state. My rules were that I had to take it personally, it had to be a regular set of numbers and letters for that state - no vanities - and I had to be able to clearly see
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by callumprentice 3y ago
Like many other posters here, whenever we travel, I put AirTags in all our checked bags as well as hand carry (in case we lose them or they get stolen). I also made my own sturdy luggage tags with a laminator that has our contact info on it

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