Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
One of life's reassuring constants has just quit on me: my bicycle dynamo. I bought it from a German website about 10 years ago after a German colleague told me such a thing existed. This was in the days before translation engines on the web, so I recall some trial ...
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
I first saw the video of the Chang'e 3 lunar landing at LiveLeak and have to say I thought it was beautiful: the smooth motion and clear images reminded me of looking out of the window of an aeroplane as it banks while lining up to land at a destination ...
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
This problem had me baffled for more than a few minutes: I wrote a leJOS PIDController loop for a LEGO NXT project that used one motor's rotation encoder as the input to control another motor's set point. It didn't work: the output from the PIDController's doPID(int) was reliably zero. My ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1508" align="alignright" width="293"] With the sides knotted up during the day[/caption]
I'm not keen on central heating but I don't like feeling cold in bed. The house we're currently renting never seems to get very warm: turning up the heating seems only to increase the bills and the 'musty old ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Just a quickie - I spotted a recurring comment on the web, usually shortly after someone expressed upset at some past event (I think the recent examples were outrage that Mitt Romney lost the US presidential election and / or that Obama won). Readers were apparently convinced that sufficient time ...
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