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Brighton mini maker faire 20120
I follow a lot of people that are into making things, and so the various maker faires around the US hit my timeline. I normally feel a pang of jealousy with these as I live in the UK, and have no real chance of attending. But this time had been different, this was a maker…
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Rubber band gun – MODOTCHAO clone
I would love to claim that I designed my latest project, but all I did was find this video, and be inspired to try to copy the design. I have always been a fan of making things with mechanisms, and so the incredible collection of rubber band guns that ogg craft has designed and built…
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Custom MakerGeek playing cards
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I have the best wife in the world. On this occasion her awesomeness is demonstrated through the medium of playing cards. A deck of cards designed by her just for me!
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Rotating wine rack
Some time ago I blogged about using openSCAD do design a wine rack. Well I’ve finally finished the wine rack.
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Android development – Unfortunately *your app* has stopped
So upfront I will admit that I am not one of life’s readers-of-instructions. I tend to skim through manuals and instructional pages and just get a sense of what I need to know then dive in and start pressing buttons.
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Setting up a new development environment – Android
It’s been a long while since I was doing any personal coding projects and even longer since the last time I gave much thought to the development environment and tools that I would use. However, that time is upon me again…
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Lessons from QCon Part 2 – Working Distributed
The team I work on is split over 3 time zones, with an Office in London, Bermuda and Vancouver. Giving us an 8 hour time different to work around.So I was interested by the distributed teams track at QCon and I attended a couple of sessions to pick up some ideas about being effective with…
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Lessons from QCon: Part 1 – Sympathy with the Machine
At my recent trip to QCon London I had the opportunity to hear some great talks given by some really good speakers.
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Getting some much needed inspiration – QCon London
This week I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to go to a developer conference called QCon in London.Its a four day conference, but I was only able to go for the last 2 days. However that was more than enough to get a huge, (and much needed) dose of inspiration.