Pour changer, voilà un article en français. J'ai longuement hésité à le faire, puis je me suis lancé. Avec 10 ans de retard, je découvre youtube. J'ai un peu honte, je travaille dans la technologie, j'ai travaillé dans l'industrie des médias et c'est seulement maintenant que je m'intérèsse à ce nouveau média. Pour moi, youtube, …
Author: Florent Revelut
Egg shape and camshaft
Introduction For some tinkering, I wanted to be able to draw a standard, egg-shaped cam and compute the displacement it was generating. I thought this was a trivial problem, but I couldn't find anything, so I'll describe the path I used. As a side note, the end-goal was to generate some 3D animation with persistence …
Chromasquad
I've recently had to fly oversea (yesterday) and this is usually for me the opportunity to try new things: can't really sleep, in-flight entertainment is usually crappy, so here I go. I tried a new game called Chromasquad. Reason why I tried this is simple : I recently got it in a humble bundle (monthly …
Youtube and me, second round
My first try with youtube was such a tremendous success (ahem) that I had to try again. The main problem of previous video was a really crappy sound. I did lots of tests since and discovered that my headset is producing decent sound quality with audacity. However, if I try to record directly from lightworks …
Youtube and me
I'm from a generation who was taught that the ultimate source of knowledge are the books. I managed to evolve on my own and found that internet is a wonderful place where lots of people share lots of interesting stuff. I was pretty happy with that situation : look for a blog post or an instructable, …
Monthly Humble monthly: december edition
Recently (november 2015), humble bundle decided to have a subscription based bundle: instead of buying a game bundle, you opt in for a flat fee (12 USD) and you got a surprise package. I like this concept as it forces to discover and try new games while limiting the budget impact to almost nothing. Games are …
Windows or Android
I got yesterday a nice old-ish tablet that was not working any more. Namely, a Nexus 7 first generation which was flat-lined (and previously made snow on the screen, which is never a good sign in our all-digital era). After some random thoughts and lots of internet searching/buttons fumbling/battery disconnecting/cables checking, it finally decided to …
Screen/laptop holder
Until recently, main screen was resting on thick book to be slightly higher and end up in front of my eyes. As part of a revamp of my setup, I decided it was time for an upgrade. I had some specific needs: my screen needed to be roughly 10cm higher than desk I have a …
Celtic knots
Technical wednesday, I'm back. One of my (new) hobby to kill a few minutes is to draw celtic knot. I've already been into this ~10 years ago and it feels good to do it again. For those who don't know, a celtic knot is a twisted loop. The fun part: there is some serious theory …
Reading challenge
I took the goodreads challenge this year and aimed at 26 books. I aimed higher last year and failed and wanted to have a reachable goal. It's currently begin of september and I got the notification that I had completed it: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/2424656 While reading 26 books in itself is not much of a challenge, it allows …
Bruce's hideout 