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To What Extent Do Candidates Support Each Other Redux – A One-Liner, Thirty Second Route to the Info
In More Storyhunting Around Local Elections Data Using Gephi – To What Extent Do Candidates Support Each Other? I described a visual route to finding out which local council candidates had supported e… more →
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How do you get your parents (or kids) to listen to you? Trick them.
wrote 7 hours ago: If we lived together and I told you to avoid eating refined carbs, how successful do you think you … more →
Juice Fast Follow-up
wrote 8 hours ago: Quick post on my juice fast results: I lost body fat and gained abdominal definition (yes, after a s … more →
My First App
wrote 2 days ago: After months and months of getting to grips with app design, the little idea I had last year has fin … more →
June: Water Sculptures, insects and preparing Holiday camps
wrote 3 days ago: Carrying the water for the next project… Creepy Crawlies camp is over but there’s more i … more →
Quick2Wire Analogue Board - Connecting to Raspberry Pi
wrote 3 days ago: This is a short report on how to connect Quick2Wire’s analogue board directly to a Raspberry P … more →
Speaker Amplifier
wrote 3 days ago: I happened to find some opamp ICs and wanted to see what I could do with them. My first idea was to … more →
Quick2Wire Analogue Board
wrote 4 days ago: Last night I assembled the Quick2Wire analogue board. The software setup took a little bit of fiddli … more →
Quick2Wire Interface Board - Assembly and Troubleshooting
wrote 5 days ago: Last night I assembled the Quick2Wire interface board for the Raspberry Pi. Assembly was straightfor … more →
Robert Planter
wrote 6 days ago: Every summer the little lady and I say, “We should have a garden!” And at the end of eve … more →
An example illustrating tinkering
wrote 6 days ago: In a previous post I defined chance cognition (or chance-seeking) as a form of prospective cognition … more →
Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire!
wrote 1 week ago: Hey Chicago! Tomorrow is the Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire! If you haven’t heard: Maker F … more →
Chance cognition or chance-seeking?
wrote 1 week ago: I’ve been interviewing students and collecting data about chance-seeking for about 2 months so … more →
idk
wrote 1 week ago: “the first stirrings of hideous insect life…” -William Burroughs, Naked Lunch … more →
Perpetual Beta
wrote 1 week ago: I have had a great deal of time to think these past few days: I’ve been holed away in my bedro … more →
Monitoring Home Electricity Consumption with a Raspberry Pi - part 2
wrote 1 week ago: 1. What you need A Raspberry Pi A Current Cost Meter A RJ45 to USB converter cable 2. Setting Up the … more →
Monitoring Home Electricity Consumption with a Raspberry Pi - part 1
wrote 1 week ago: Preamble A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to be given a Current Cost Energy Meter like the o … more →
The Tinkering Table Comes to Class
wrote 1 week ago: A wearable puppet theater made by a student in the Perspectives on Learning class. Perspectives on L … more →
PiRadio
wrote 1 week ago: INTERNET RADIO ON THE RASPBERRY PI Below is a photo of my Raspberry Pi, playing Miles Davis & Mo … more →
PiFace - the very basics
wrote 1 week ago: PiFace is an IO board for the Raspberry Pi computer — 8 buffered inputs, 8 outputs, and two re … more →
