I still need to write the assembly instructions for my tiny #robot project Wee Bug (and Moo Bug). Last time I tried IKEA-style instructions, and people struggled. I'm thinking about doing it as a comic book this time around, what do you think?
@deshipu Looks great, but it also looks like a lot of work to do the entire instructions that way. The comic style is attractive, but I’m not sure it has much influence on the clarity of the instructions in a positive or negative way. I wonder if there’s any way you could test this on real users before putting in all the work?
Hey #maker Community,
what's your current favorite CAD tool/framework for 2.5D (as in lasercutter or simple wood sheet CNC) ?
Preferably for linux or web :3
I'd forgotten how apple-like appletalk could be. Plugged in a powerbook 500 and the Q605 just happily routes away to #globaltalk in the rest of the world.
I mean sure, modern day stuff usually gets it right just as well, but to experience this running just makes me smile.
@NanoRaptor
I just notice how nicely lit up the globe looks in that AppleShare icon. I wonder, did its designer deliberately choose non-icon-safe colors for the globe and icon-safe ones for the rest?
@NanoRaptor I don’t think it’s the mask, that would just make things completely transparent. Poking around in infinitemac.org, it really seems to be the colors.
May be a coincidence from when the globe was inserted into the older AppleShare icon, but I choose to believe otherwise.
@deshipu I tried to get some of these when they were replaced at our station a while ago, but my inquiry vanished somewhere in the SBB bureaucracy. (They are less chonky than I remember though, I had guessed 64×64 pixels, but when I try estimating from the photo now it’s almost twice as much.)
@deshipu I understand your argument that on a general level formatting is a signal of code quality, but I don’t follow how leveling it makes individual problems harder to spot. Surely a sloppy coder formats sloppily everywhere, not just around the buggy parts of their code?
I’m looking forward to that lightning talk. I hope it will have examples?
@deshipu (I don’t have enough experience with reviewing auto-formatted vs. unformatted code to tell what arguments have merit. To me, the advantage of auto-formatting seems that it stops the sloppy coders from mixing random reformatting into their commits, which drowns out the functional changes.)
@bleeptrack Beautiful! Though the video did not, as I had hoped, answer the question I immediately had: What is the connection to A*? Only the pun, or does it appear in the pattern generator?
Took out one of the cheap DS-D6 fitness trackers I had lying around for years and got a current version of MicroPython running on it after some trial and error based on https://github.com/fanoush/ds-d6
@deshipu I remember hiding under the stairs at the bottom of the staircase once with a couple of classmates to avoid having to go outside, but the teacher found us and threw us out anyway…
We made a new puzzle based on the Spectre tile, the aperiodic monotile discovered earlier this year by @Chaimgoodmanstrauss, @csk, and others. It is a set of 111 tiles with a truchet-style pattern printed on them
@suhlig Thanks for the mention as well, hadn’t heard of it, that sounds like a perfect fit for my recent work! (And of course I’d like to see what @bleeptrack would do with the monotiles too!)
@bleeptrack I’m thinking of entering this https://mstdn.social/@isziaui/110997632615867762 but I’ll try to see if I can find a better material and process to make the pattern stand out more. (Our laser cutter is so good that it doesn’t char the wood enough!)
