I've been using a computer keyboard for the best of the previous 30 years. However, I never properly learnt to type and I'm still hammering my keyboard with mosrly 2 to 4 fingers. Of course, I have a bad wordage per minute and my error rate is touching the skies.I have tried various kind of …
Author: Florent Revelut
Books and drone
I've just read a book which left me a strange feeling. I have micro drone that I love flying - actually I need to repair it to fly it again but that's a different problem. Beware that some spoiler might be incoming. There is a lot oof ppublic feeling against drones, either RC or autonomous. …
Week end activities
Last week-end, I did 2 crafting activities with the kids. First, my daughter had a doll clothes hanger that she broke. That's the cost of a very untidy room. So we decided to work on building a new one. She sat on my laps and did the measuremnt of the broken one, I used inkscape and explained …
New computer hardware
I've had new toys to play with over the WE, here is a first hot status. The first one was linked to installing some new computer hardware. I have ethernet sockets in my wall, only using 4 wires (2 pairs), hence limiting to 100mbps. As I have a NAS, I needed much higher bandwidth. I tried …
Misc Week 15-33/24
This week (and the previous one as there was not enough for a full post), my world changed the following way: I discovered the joy of pentagonal tiling. New tiling discovered and the previous ones. Someone liked self-driving cars and wrote nicely about it. I love driving, however I feel like I'm ready for a self driving …
New interesting game
I use steam almost exclusively nowadays for my game purchases. There are many reasons behind that: I can buy whenever I like (undertand, late while wearing only underwear), they make nic offers from time to time (winter/summer sales), you can share the game amongst multiple computers/platforms. One oif the feature I like is the wishlist …
Misc Week 15-32
This week, the following happened: Very nice woodwork We made water rockets with the kids. Need to find a way to put pressure in them now, currently, mostly a fail (except the excitement of actually building them). Next time, I'll try to work it in advance and have correct bottles. Next steps: be awesome!. It seems …
Misc Week 15-31
This week, the following happened, on line and IRL: new website to procrastinate : https://microcorruption.com/cpu/debugger Have fun disassembling and hacking for glory. Did the tutorial and a few challenges, don't have enough time to make actual progress puzzle week at work : more procrastination. Each day, 3 puzzles to solve. Had fun, solved 10 of 15 Youtube is …
Misc week 15-30
Not much happened for me on-line last week, cause I spent an awful amount of time travelling: ZRH -> ZRH airport: tram + train ZRH - airport -> Milan airport: flying Swiss Milan airport -> Shanghai airport: flying Air China, need to get my luggage and checking in again forced me to spend 6 hours …
Designing gears with inkscape
For a hush hush project, I need to use gears and I plan on designing and laser printing them. Theory I found this old article which explains a lot on how to make gears with (older) inkscape. It relies on the following technical reference. With new version 0.91, things have been a bit simpler. Unit can …
Bruce's hideout 