techninja42

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by techninja42 4mo ago
Greetings HN! My name is James, @techninja on Github, and I'm a long time HN watcher and learner. Just this past 6 months I decided crazily to follow some random thought I had about trying to do anything with my DNA data, now I guess i
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Show HN: Asili – open-source, privacy-first in-browser DNA PGS scoring(github.com)
3 points by techninja42 4mo ago|1 comments
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by techninja42 10y ago
What a beautiful hack by nature. I wonder if you could create a lens with a similarly shaped pupil/iris and see the chromatic aberration in a black and white camera correctly focused on the output. Would make for a fun weekend project
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by techninja42 11y ago
Abstracted color getters! This seems to be the biggest issue with users. You have to wet the brush and wiggle on the color to actually get anything on the brush. They can't seem to get that far.
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by techninja42 11y ago
I'd love to implement your work in RoboPaint, might even be able to pull some color information to make portraits from black sharpie outline with your implementation and watercolor fill. I've completely failed at any attempts to m
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by techninja42 11y ago
And joshu was too! Talked to him about drawing algos. He's too smart for his own good ;) Oh I would probably do something along the lines of adding simple shapes (Circle x/y & radius, ETC), auto re-inking of last color for lon
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by techninja42 11y ago
HA! Well, that's hilarious. I was just talking to @eliot at Hackaday supercon about making this with WaterColorBot and CNCserver at his suggestion, I guess if it's out there it's out there. Definitely a different setup than I
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by techninja42 16y ago
Oh dear... Might have to build this now hmm? I'm not sure it counts if it's got a arduino in it and a cat 5 sticking out the back. The water is also an issue.
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by techninja42 16y ago
Yep, made an account just for this! I check the oursignal.com aggregator regularly (though the delicious.com content it adds is of seriously dubious quality). The hackernews and reddit posts are almost always interesting, insightful, or rel
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by techninja42 16y ago
Yep. Making a show is in itself an amazing discovery of what you could do. We keep everything simple, the script is only a basic guideline and she takes an active role in every part of the production. I'm simply hopeful that as she blossoms
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by techninja42 16y ago
Sylvia's dad here, Great to see the hacker news crowd has found the show entertaining and useful! We glossed over a lot of the programming aspect because the physical aspect of making something is far more immediately comprehensible for kid