links for 2011-03-09
TCP client and server – C and C++ Programming Resources A very simple c++ TCP client and server tutorial that i use to teach others about sockets. (tags: tcp sockets c++ source tutorial)
Author Archives Steven Smethurst
links for 2011-03-04
MonoDroid – MonoDroid MonoDroid is a development stack for using C# and core .NET APIs to develop Android-based applications.MonoDroid will be a commercial product licensed in a similar fashion to our Mono for iPhone product MonoTouch. (tags: android c# development mobile .net) Tempo :: The tiny JSON rendering engine by TwigKit Tempo is a tiny JSON [...]
links for 2011-02-23
Make: Online » Super Awesome Sylvia builds the MiniPOV Today we’ll be building the awesome MiniPOV kit by Adafruit, available in the Maker Shed. It’s your own little persistence of vision display in the palm of your hand. Lets go! (tags: POV elet) MiniPOV3 – Make There are a few tools that are required for [...]
links for 2011-02-22
I Love You Pop-Up Card | Flickr – Photo Sharing! I Love You Pop-Up Card (tags: paper papercraft popup)
Super Happy Crafter House 1.0
A short timelaps video from Super Happy Crafter House 1.0 Super Happy Crafter House is an open event intended for crafters of all kinds. Those interested in papercraft, origami, technology exploration, sewing, knitting, spinning, weaving, felting, crocheting — and beyond! We’re open to new ideas and craft projects and would love to see you there! [...]
Two layer Stencils
More stencils this time we used two or more colors. The next steep is a custom 5-10 color image. one that takes me the night to cut out and do.
Status update Feb 15
Ray Gun Revival has been launched. We sent out 8k unsolicited email newsletter to anyone that had anything to do with the old site and only ~50 people followed the link and signed up for the newsletter. Showing me that spam just doesn’t work. Ray Gun Revival teaser trailer was released a week later then the launch but more [...]
links for 2011-02-12
Things We’ve Learned: Josh Schachter, Quotes of the Day – James Governor's Monkchips That was really good. First session at the Carson Summit. Bad Carson for the socialtext deal though – I need to register with socialtext to use the Web apps wiki? That sucks. Bad Carson – as per comments from mr delicious below… (tags: del.icio.us [...]
links for 2011-02-11
flipcode – vsscanf for Win32 I don't how many times I've been irritated by the fact that Microsoft chose to implement all the v*printf family of routines, but for some odd reason decided to leave out all the v*scanf routines. It is all the more frustrating that the functionality is actually present inside their crt [...]
links for 2011-02-10
The External World on Vimeo
links for 2011-02-01
Color Wheels Color theory is a little obsession of mine. You’re here for startup advice, but this week I’m taking an indulgence. Leave a comment if you want to see more or fewer of these little distractions (tags: science color design webdesign art) Million Song Dataset | scaling MIR research The Million Song Dataset is a [...]
A perfect example of why you should use the same password on different websites.
Plenty of fish stores your password as plain text in their database. I know this because they send you a weekly email with updates to the site and puts your password at the bottom of the email so you can easily login. Plenty of fish was hacked and their data was stolen by a 3rd party. They [...]
What I have been up to in January 2011
Its been a busy month, the start of the year always is. Built my first Android APP with Phone gap. Its a happiness survey that lets users report there current happiness level once an hour. The reports go back to my website and get stored in a database. I hope to run this survey for a year and see if [...]
links for 2011-01-29
Fritzing virtual breadboard Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. We are creating a software and website in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and [...]
links for 2011-01-28
YouTube – Peak Commercial-Jordan & Steven To create this video, we downloaded several days worth of the Peak's 12 hour playlist, then wrote a program that downloaded the lyrics to each song from the web (we're only fabulous commercial producers at night. During the day, we're software engineers). (tags: video projects contest)
links for 2011-01-26
In vitro meat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In vitro meat, also known as cultured meat, is an animal flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal. Several current research projects are growing in vitro meat experimentally, although no meat has yet been produced for public consumption.[1] The first-generation products will [...]
links for 2011-01-23
Giant vat of non-newtonian fluid We want to set up a GIANT VAT of it on the playa next year, and get people to run across it as a "rite of passage" thing. We'll do it up like a parody of those corporate retreats where they walk on coals, with tiki torches, mock inspirational speakers [...]
links for 2011-01-22
YouTube happy childeren I wish i was this happy. about anything. (tags: happy funny)
links for 2011-01-21
LED P.O.V. Globe « Pyrofer’s Projects (tags: pov globe projects led)
links for 2011-01-19
google-refine – Project Hosting on Google Code Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase. (tags: google data) Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator (tags: funny tools)