Ged Carroll https://renaissancechambara.jp/ (renaissance chambara since 2003) Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:53:54 +0000 en hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/renaissancechambara.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-50120958447_36f6157f2e_c.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ged Carroll https://renaissancechambara.jp/ 32 32 Hyperland & more things http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/10/22/hyperland__more-things/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:02:00 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=75350 Hyperland Hyperland was a ‘documentary’ created for BBC and screened in 1990. It featured author Douglas Adams and introduced the idea of hypertext (web pages and links) along with software agents. While called a documentary it was an exercise in speculative fiction . The world has only really caught up with it now. The preeminence […]

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]]> September 2026 – the Christmas Cake edition http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/10/01/september-2026-the-christmas-cake-edition/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:10:43 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=74595 September 2026 introduction – (38)  Welcome to the 38th edition of my newsletter or as a bingo caller would say ‘Christmas Cake’. A less pleasant use of the term Christmas Cake was used in Japan during the boom times up to the 1990s..Mirroring China’s current use of ‘leftover women‘, Christmas Cake was used as a […]

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]]> Strain wave gearing & more stuff http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/09/24/strain-wave-gearing-and-more-stuff_harmonic_drive_robotics/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:03:00 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=75001 Strain wave gearing Strain wave gearing is described really well in this video. Strain wave gearing mechanisms are important for a number of reasons: Because of their complexity, they have historically only been made by a few companies in standard sizes, which limited the capabilities in robot designs and dictated the bill of materials costs. […]

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]]> Apple’s MacBook Pro at 20. http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/09/09/apples-macbook-pro-at-20/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:21:32 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=72871 Apple’s MacBook Pro turned 20 this year. Steve Jobs introduced the move to Intel processors that made the original Apple MacBook Pro possible at WWDC 2005. The reason revolved around computing power per watt. PowerPC’s offered 15 units of performance per watt, Intel’s future roadmap at the time offered 70 units of performance per watt. […]

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]]> August 2026 – the more than eleven edition http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/08/27/august-2026-the-more-than-eleven-edition/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:24:48 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=74520 August 2026 introduction – (37)  Welcome to the 37th edition of my newsletter or as a bingo caller would say ‘more than eleven’. 37 in Chinese is largely considered positive as a number, based on its component numbers of 3 and 7. On the Chinese internet 37 is used to say thank you because of […]

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