wgrover · HackerTrans

3 か月前議論

Fans of the band Wilco will recognize one of the Conet Project's recordings as the source of the woman repeating "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" in the song "Poor Places" from the eponymous album. Wilco failed to license the sample and the resulting lawsuit gave the Conet Project a portion of Wilco's royalties on that track.

wgrover

4 か月前議論

Yes! And every day the California Citrus State Historic Park is open for tours and tasting of various citrus varieties:

https://www.californiacitruspark.com

wgrover

10 か月前議論

And I remember going to Radio Shack at the mall as a kid and wanting that Armatron robot so badly! Being able to get these things now for pretty cheap and fixing them and playing with them with my kids has been such a treat.

wgrover

10 か月前議論

A parenting tip for those with geeky kids:

You can get some of these (like the smaller TOMY robots) for pretty cheap on eBay. They're usually broken, but the innards of these robots are so interesting, just taking them apart is a learning experience. TOMY was brilliant at making seemingly sophisticated toys that were actually run by a single DC motor; all the movements, sounds, sensing etc. were implemented using gears and cam shafts and other mechanisms. A great way to learn about simple machines, and a bonus if you (or your kid) can repair them and bring a 40-year-old robot back to life.

wgrover

昨年議論

In the site's defense, it is emulating like ten different operating systems as you scroll.

wgrover

昨年議論

Here's a cross-section through the theatre portion of the Barbican showing the complexity of the engineering:

https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/5w9ep7/cross_...

wgrover

2 年前議論

I'm guessing the title was meant to be a nod toward the meaning of the English word iota, "an extremely small amount".

wgrover

2 年前議論

Yup - the first few minutes of one of Technology Connections' videos on electromechanical pinball machines shows this mechanism in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo

wgrover

2 年前議論

Your post reminded me of Mark Twain’s very funny short story “The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm”:

https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story...

wgrover

2 年前議論

Here's a Python script I wrote that generates storage bin labels and prints them using a cheap 2" by 3" label printer:

https://github.com/wgrover/jamie

The name 'jamie' is in honor of Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman's meticulously labeled storage bins at M5 Industries.

The code uses a brute-force search to fit the specified text on the label using the largest possible font size.

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