Playtime is also excellent.
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Playtime is also excellent.
I agree with you on that one. I always thought only using first initials was a bad idea. Let the original author decide how they want their name to appear.
Chicago and APA styles of references aren't very different. I wouldn't think it would matter much in this era of citation generators that can easily reformat them. Back when you had to take your type-written dissertation to the red pencil lady things were much more stressful :)
the English wheel
Thanks. I been busy adapting a set of period correct games for it. Once that project is done I will revisit the design files (there are a lot of little flaws hidden under putty and paint) and put together something I'm willing to release. Stay tuned. Meantime, check out the VT100 someone is sharing.
Selectively follow the followers of the people you follow or the followers of the people who follow you. I find people with a roughly equal balance of followers and following to be the most interesting.
Not a maker, but I find the posts from @patrickkapty.bsky.social to be highly inspirational.
Ask Longfellow?
The pair proved popular at the recent Rochester Maker Faire. Now I am working on building out the selection of period-correct games you can play on it. Lunar Lander anyone? Eliza?
This was the advertising image from 1970 that totally sold me on the design. Of course once I saw the tulip chair in the ad I had to get a cheap repro of that to go with my terminal (I will skip the disk packs, etc).
I got the bug to recreate an early mini-computer terminal and settled on the DEC VT-05, arguably the swoopiest of them all. It's more of a re-interpretation--scaled down, similar but not identical lines, and running text-based games on a raspberry pi.
Those are great. we use them as distance sensors in our mini sumo robots.
Remember this movie? I will be premiering my homage to Close Encounters (along with a bunch of other stuff) at Maker Faire Rochester, which will be at RIT on 11/15/2025. Be there if you enjoy fun. rochester.makerfaire.com
The coin cell provides about 16ma to the flying saucer with nothing else in the circuit. I put in a resistor to dim it somewhat (and mounted it backwards). I'm thinking about some sort of tiny pot for brightness control or maybe a LDR in a voltage divider as crude auto dimming.
I’m finishing work on my BougieVend, a self-ordering kiosk for extreme materialist wannabes. You won’t get the products, but you will get an epic receipt documenting your purchase of them!
Those look great! I've been doing a much more stripped down version with just pin backs for lapel pins and a coin cell. I've gotten a couple full days out of the ufo on the first battery and counting...
Actor James Garner leads the pack of Formula Ones in the 1966 film Grand Prix
attracted to the insects that are attracted to the lamp, I would guess.
$369 each vs $6 for 2 (plus jumpers). I think I'll stick with the traditional ones and save the blinky lights for the projects I build on them.
BoB finished this out with a snowflake effect palm rest and some nifty software. www.youtube.com/shorts/cmsYV...
Unfortunately, neither Whizzo nor my goth-bot Cuddles have been successful in competition.
Whizzo the Clown was the local TV station kid's show clown when I was growing up in Kansas City (Mo). So when I helped start up a mini sumo robot wrestling competition at my community makerspace (as we all do), I really needed to make a Whizzo bot to throw in the ring.
Your maps are very interesting. And thanks for putting me on to the NFIP interactive mapping source while looking at relocating to a flood-prone region (Annapolis area).
I keep a folder called "inspirations" full of pictures like these. What do I find so compelling about them? I guess something about practical yet ridiculous (from our perspective) solutions in the industrial era.
The final version is more egg shaped but with careful indents to encourage the fingers of variously sized hands to grip it securely.
I try to make the electronics of these projects as visible as possible to inspire conversations about making at events.
The next versions were designed to be gripped or wrist worn since the light cube responds to vigorous movement and shaking. But people at our recent makerfaire revealed that this was too cumbersome and slow to adjust to hand size differences.
discarded controller prototypes
The value of 3D printing for rapid prototyping was amply demonstrated by a recent project to create controller for a 3D light display I built. I started believing I wanted something shaped like a computer mouse. But every variant of that design slipped out of my hand when lifted of the table.
naughty or nice device
At this point the hardware is ready save for the acrylic palm rest for scanning. My friend BoB will do the software and provided fresh muffins and a quick game of Fyra at the handover.
naughty or nice device
I was asked to design and construct Santa’s ”naughty or nice” device to entertain families during the holiday season. Due to unexplained forces I think all young children will be judged “nice” after the machine checks the list and checks it twice. Adults will be at serious risk, however.
FLIR image of kettle corn
Making sure my kettle corn was fresh made by checking its heat signature on U of R's FLIR camera at the Rochester Lilac Festival.
Makerfaire Syracuse banner
I’ll be sharing some of my projects as an exhibitor at Makerfaire Syracuse on Saturday (5/3). We are expecting over 2000 people and 125 exhibitors at the event. Come and join us!
syracuse.makerfaire.com
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