Tag Archives: Links

SpaceNavigator controlled Lego Mindstorms NXT

Posted on September 26, 2007 by schwa

It’s my second year of coaching a First Lego League team. The experience has been fantastic, I’m teaching 4th and 5th grade children about robots and computers, and teaching them to build and program their own robots. This year the … Continue reading →

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Tiilt!

Posted on December 11, 2006 by schwa

I don’t own a Wii. But as of today I do own a Wii Remote (and a nunchuk). And I’ve had a lot of fun using the Wiimote.framework to hack up this app: Tiilt.mp4 This screencast shows a simple Quartz … Continue reading →

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Child’s Play Day

Posted on December 6, 2006 by schwa

Mike Zornek, friend, fellow #macsb-er and Mac entrepreneur is organising Child’s Play Day. Ironcoder is hosting a page with information on the event: http://ironcoder.org/blog/childs-play-day/ (Thanks to Mere Mortal Software for the badge icon)

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Lineform 1.1

Posted on June 19, 2006 by schwa

I wrote PettySVG almost a year ago as a minimal SVG renderer framework for Mac OS X. As such it works relatively well, although bugs still remain and the set of SVG functionality supported is rather low (PettySVG might be … Continue reading →

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Quickies

Posted on June 15, 2006 by schwa

Daniel Jalkut of Red-Sweater scores a hat-trick with three very interesting blog posts. Of special interest to me, is his posting about the redesign of his blog using NodeBox. I actually introduced Daniel to NodeBox, little did I know he’d … Continue reading →

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Internet Clippings to XBEL

Posted on June 3, 2006 by schwa

I have thousands of Mac OS X url clippings files on my mac. These little files are reported by the finder as “Web Internet Location” files. They’re sometimes known as “weblocs” (due to their file extension) and look like this: … Continue reading →

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Shaping future Ironcoders

Posted on May 23, 2006 by schwa

Anyone interested in shaping future Ironcoder competitions please visit and contribute to this thread on Ironcoder.org

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Stone Design ships Videator

Posted on May 23, 2006 by schwa

Andrew Stone released Videator today. I haven’t really played with it much, but it is like Imaginator but for video. It is a lot like my Core Video Funhouse and Toxic Media projects. Of course my projects were just that … Continue reading →

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Bash weirdness on Mac OS X Intel boxes

Posted on May 15, 2006 by schwa

Just a quickie (to prevent my blog from becoming a dinosaur and eventually fossil fuel…) If you’re running bash on an Intel Mac you might see some interesting behavior if you inspect the shell’s variables: [jwight@ratatosk] jwight$ set | grep … Continue reading →

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Iron Coder – Fin!

Posted on March 5, 2006 by schwa

The zeroth Iron Coder contest is now over. We had 10 (possibly 11) entries. So far all of them that we’ve seen like a lot of fun.

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