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by titchard 2y ago
This reminds me of this book I read a few years back - https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/ How much work actually goes into the cheapest toaster the chap works to make every element from scratch into a
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by titchard 2y ago
Bizarre coincidence but on way back through town today on lunch break saw several volumes of Tintin in a charity shop window and took it as fate after reading this article.
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by titchard 2y ago
I am glad the book was found in the end, I had a similar case that took me years to track down. My great grandmother used to always send on christmas a Penguin Classic childrens book and 100 brand new pennies in a handcherchief - for years
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by titchard 2y ago
its been a while since I read some of this book and enjoying it, and I remember it refering to 3bit computing in the soviet era but it might be right up your street https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262534666/how-not-to-netw
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by titchard 2y ago
I really like the idea, but as a left handed person I found it needed to have a keyboard shortcut accessible from the right hand (maybe this can be an option in the menu?)
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by titchard 2y ago
I think this is spot on - how many times have people (and I include myself) stopped on a project that is even remotely public facing because it isn't perfect-grade work before you've even learnt the first steps?
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by titchard 3y ago
Thank you for this, I am very much an amateur comic artist and prefer "analogue" methods so this list of items is exceptionally helpful for items I haven't seen before4 / didn't know the name of.
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by titchard 3y ago
Really great site - I can 100% recommend this book on the subject, really interesting https://www.counter-print.co.uk/products/arcade-game-typogra...
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by titchard 4y ago
Scratch is a great tool for teaching the entry level elements before you move onto a written code. I have been running after school classes for kids using Scratch (under the Raspberry Pi charity arm codeclub.org) and they take to it very q
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by titchard 4y ago
I've been teaching an afterschool class for the last six or so years for kids using scratch, whilst yes its aimed at that level - it does allow you to understand concepts so easy, especially as you can build, rearrange and change like
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by titchard 4y ago
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I had totally forgotten about this when Charlie Brooker spoke about it as plotting out Bandersnatch. I am a Senior Learning Technologist and currently working with lecturers for good ways for plotti
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by titchard 6y ago
Agreed, it does exist - but that model you speak of is £849 for me - that is not an accessible price. An iPad pro that is the same size is only £100 more for me, but then thats not what I am after. As ePaper and eInk has been around for a w
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by titchard 6y ago
This is what frustrates me - I would love eInk panels, or a reader in a larger format than your standard kindle and kobo affair so I could read textbooks properly. An A4 or slightly larger eReader should have existed (and not cost ridiculou
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by titchard 6y ago
I agree, mostly plant based here but rarely rely on the "fake meats". The closest is seitan, which I make myself anyway.
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by titchard 6y ago
Designing a combat robot for the UK Antweight division, which is only 150g max weight. (or 175g for some groups). Despite this tight weight budget, I intend to build something rather interesting, but it is causing me to spend a lot of time
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by titchard 7y ago
I have just found the one you use - will do some research! I do a lot of Fusion 360 work and I always feel like a trackball would help.
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by titchard 7y ago
This is an interesting project - my first thought would be to flip it, as I am left handed and would benefit from it being oriented that way.
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by titchard 7y ago
That's a fantastic way of doing it - I'd imagine you'd put on some old clothes to do the diving anyway.
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by titchard 9y ago
That is interesting, I didn't even know that was a feature that was capped on the RPi. I can see that being made into very compact 3D Scanners very quickly after launch if that was added as a feature.