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blinry, 2 months ago to random

I want to try the "make 50 of something" technique again!

So this week, I'll try to find 50 things to do with a Software Defined Radio! 📻

I'll use this simple USB dongle, which you can get for around $30.

blinry, 1 year ago to random

My current monthly challenge is to eat at a 1000 kcal deficit for 30 days! :breadnommed: Posting about my challenges here has been really motivating in the past, so I'll do it again!

I started on Tuesday (Day 1), where I consumed the amount of energy required to charge my smartphone battery 92 times!

blinry, 7 months ago to random

Germany currently has a ticket that allows you to use all regional trains in the whole country!

Today, I wanna play a game of random travel with it!

And I need your help: During my trip, I'll post a couple of short-running polls, and you can vote for which train I should take, or where to get off. 😆

My hope is to see new places and get lost! I'll make up the rules as I go.

I will start at Hamburg Central Station. First poll soon! #randomtrip

blinry, 7 months ago to random

As has become a nice tradition, I'll post an #inkdiary drawing every day this month! :)

I'm using a new shape every year! And of course, this year, it can only be David Smith's hat tile! <3

blinry, 9 months ago to random

I've always wanted to build a compass belt, which indicates where north is using vibrations!

Today, I got the very first prototype working: A setup that vibrates when you point your smartphone north! 🧭

I point my smartphone in different directions – when it is in a 1/8th range of north, an attached microcontroller activates a vibration motor. A magnetic compass is shown for reference.

blinry, 4 months ago to Electronics

Hey #electronics folks! <3 I want to build a CO2 sensor with a battery life of several months. First using prototyping boards, then maybe as a custom PCB.

Some questions:

1. What kind of approach/device would you suggest to measure the power consumption of such a device? I hope to end up in the single-digit mW range.

2. What would be the lowest-power components required to drive a small e-ink screen?

3. Does the 328P seem like a suitable controller, if I don't need any connectivity?

blinry, 4 months ago to random

My Framework laptop is here! ✨ It's a modular, repairable laptop that I've been hearing really good things about!

This is the "DIY edition", so let's assemble all the pieces together!

blinry, 10 days ago to random

Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓

Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it!

@piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go!

:yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:

blinry, 11 months ago to random

I've now left Kyoto for Japan's southmost main island, Kyushu. I'm in Beppu, a town known for its natural hot springs! ♨️

I'm visiting Beppu's "seven hells" today – here's 血池地獄, the BLOOD POND HELL! There's red clay in the ground, which gets dissolved in the hot water.

(Is the steam also red for you colornormies?)

blinry, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Just heard about this in a podcast, and I'm really curious:

Do you have a voice in your head that talks to you?

blinry, 9 months ago to random

Goodbye #cccamp23! <3 @flauschzelle and I are now on our way to @HackenOpenAir by bike! :)

blinry, 6 months ago to random

Sooo, @rash's recent toot makes me want to put all my stuff in Euro containers! :D

So, I'm curious – what experiences have y'all made with Euroboxes? Which sizes do you like? Where do you put them? How do you label them? What has worked well for you? 🤓

blinry, 8 months ago to random

Exciting announcement: @bleeptrack and I will create a 2.0 version of our open-source Git learning game https://ohmygit.org! 🎉

For the first time, you'll be able to play the game directly in your browser, using a real Git in a tiny Linux VM!

And for people whose first language isn't English, the game will come with other language versions!

Thanks to the @PrototypeFund for funding these often-requested features!

blinry, 1 year ago to random

I'm leaving Tokyo for something more rural today.

blinry, 1 year ago to random

Welcome to this year's #inkdiary, where I'll draw about what moved me each day. Here's day 1!

blinry, 11 months ago to random

Fun things are happening in our roof garden! The cucumber is trying to climb in! :D

blinry, 2 months ago to random

I'd like to collect "hyper-interesting pages"! 🤯📄

Self-contained, single-page artifacts that can nerd-snipe you; that you could hand out at an event, and it'd keep people interested/busy for a while, or teach them something!

Examples:

• The hexagonal regex crossword from the 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt https://puzzles.mit.edu/2013/coinheist.com/rubik/a_regular_crossword/grid.pdf
• My Toki Pona cheat sheet https://blinry.org/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/
• The Dutil-Dumas message zine https://blinry.org/dutil-dumas/

Do you know more documents like this?

What do you wish existed?

A Toki Pona cheat sheet, that explains the full grammar of the constructed language.
A message in an alien font.

blinry, 3 days ago to random

Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to #emfcamp, a hacker camp in the UK! #emf2024

Getting excited! 😆 This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

blinry, 6 months ago to random German

I thought I could control the power of the yeast. I was wrong.

blinry, 8 months ago to random

Earlier this year, @piko told me that the distance-learning university @fernunihagen offers an Open Access Studies program ("Akademiestudium"), where you can enroll in almost any course they offer!

For me, as someone who's curious about anything, that sounded fantastic! 🤓

So I looked through their offered courses, seeing what would excite me most –

– and I guess it was inevitable: I'm now studying the basics of German law! ⚖️

blinry, 16 days ago to random

You might've heard this concern about veganism: "I couldn't live without cheese!" 🧀

And indeed, the vegan cheese that's available in supermarkets is often… not great so far.

So I wanted to show you how to make a simple, quick & cheap cheese from cashews! It's tangy, savory, and has lots of protein!

blinry, 9 months ago to random

You've been warned! #HOA23

blinry, 1 year ago to random

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Abstract We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author — superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever’s name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LATEX, BIBTEX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.
Bias. A fundamental limitation to any approach that lists the authors in a fixed order arises when citing papers with several authors. In the body of a paper (as opposed to the bibliography), it is most common to write “X et al. [#]” when referring to a paper [#] whose first author’s surname is X. In author—year styles such as APA, this is even built into the citation itself, e.g., (X et al., 2023). As a result, author X gets their name effectively promoted with every citation, which is inconsistent with multiple or all authors being equal. In our own writing, we try to avoid this practice, and instead write all authors’ surnames whenever citing a paper, e.g., “X, Y, and Z [#]”. But this workaround becomes impractical for refer- ences with over a dozen authors, such as some of our papers (four examples with a lot of author names overlaid on top of each other, with publication years.)
Figure 3. Circular arrangements of the authors of Fisimindon (2020). Drawn in Inkscape using Circular Align and Distribute, onto a circle of radius 50 (left) or 200 (right); followed by 90° rotation (left); and rotating 180° to make names upright (bottom). 4. Future Work A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read. It may be possible to write names in a way that has no first name but still makes all names clearly readable. For example, a circle has no beginning or end, so arranging the names in a circular pattern avoids arranging any author “first”. Figure 3 shows some initial experiments in this direction. Related, traditional round- robin documents (Wikipedia 2022) are signed by authors in a circle to prevent identification of a ringleader (such as mutineer sailors). It remains unsolved how to fit such circular arrangements in with the rest of a text document, which feels inherently sequential. Circular arrangements also seem difficult to apply to small numbers of authors such as 2.

blinry, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

The latest innovations from Japan: A speaker which you can put around your neck!

blinry, 2 months ago to random

Is there a name for this type of diagram that helps you pick the best subway car, depending on where you want to get off?

And have you ever seen some outside of Tokyo?

Because I want more of those, and I'm thinking about whether it's possible go generate them from existing data… OSM might help, but the staircases might often be missing, I guess?

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