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3D Printing Minecraft World and Objects

Alex K — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:33:31 +0000

Back from Christmas holiday’s, I found a nice one on Hack-a-Day. A short article on Nudel (nickname, I hope;), who documents a way to print worlds and objects from Minecraft with a 3D printer. I guess there are more people playing with this now, but this is the first completed and well documented method I found. Be aware [...]

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Minecraft – One more block…

Alex K — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:59:12 +0000

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Most of the people that know me, know that I don’t like to pay for stuff. That also applies to one of my hobbies, playing computer games. This recently changed, when last week, I bought a copy or a licence for Minecraft. As you can read on this site, I’m a big LEGO fan and [...]

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Analog/Digital Outrun (1986) By Arduino

Alex K — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:41:30 +0000

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Most of the people who played with computers in the 80′s have played and enjoyed Outrun. Youtube user Amandris published a video of his latest creation. he built a “real world” Outrun game, controlled by Arduino. Not much more to explain, watch the video and enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsJVHc2g3ls Link: Amandris Via: Microsiervos Possibly Related: Technorati Tags: Arduino, [...]

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Something Negative Becomes Positive

Alex K — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:14:04 +0000

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Believe me, I’ve looked quite a few times at the picture that came out of my LEGO Mindstorms Pinhole camera, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I realized that the print is in Negative. Of course! After creating a positive using 1 single Gimp function, here’s the result: Possibly Related: Technorati Tags: LEGO, Mindstorms, [...]

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LEGO Mindstorms Pinhole Camera Video

Alex K — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:55:51 +0000

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I finally finished the video about the LEGO Mindstorms Pinhole Camera. Because of the latest advances of the Light meter (actually starts to work now) I´ll soon post more details here. Here’s the video. More on my Mindstrorms creation here. Possibly Related: Technorati Tags: LEGO, Mindstorms, Photography, Pinhole, Robots and Robotics

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ROMO – The Smartphone Robotics Platform

Alex K — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:27:37 +0000

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The idea is really good. Robotic construction with the use of a cellphone (read: iPhone or Android) as the processing Unit. This is quite a step ahead from the standard available robotics kits, which either come as pre-assembled or one-purpose kit with which you can only make one (or a small set of) robotic inventions, [...]

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TGIF – The Binary, a text-based adventure

Alex K — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:10:25 +0000

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Text-based adventure games are a thing of the past. That’s what most people think. Aside from an occasional remake or hack based on one of the classics, like Zork or Adventure, not a lot is going on nowadays. There’s a certain amount of logic behind this if you look at what we as gamers demand [...]

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Bitcoins… An Experiment

Alex K — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:15:28 +0000

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A while back (about a month or two) I started getting interested in the Bitcoin phenomenon. This was mainly caused by someone having all his money stolen, which got a lot of publicity. I read about Bitcoin quite some time back, but now the global economic situation is going mad and a lot of questions [...]

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Bits Of Freedom – Fundraising Thursday!

Alex K — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:22:42 +0000

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Bits Of Freedom, a Dutch organisation working in favour of Internet freedom and Protection of privacy has started a fundraising action to be able to continue their good work. One of their main achievements has been the pressure to make the Netherlands the first country to have a Net Neutrality Law. It is a pity [...]

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Mobile Theme Launched

Alex K — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:04:34 +0000

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By the end of last week, I received some comments on the bad rendering of my site in a mobile browser. Not really on an iPhone, iPad or an Android phone, but in all the other small screen browsers. I found it looked rather nice on an iPad last week! I found a wordpress plug-in [...]

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