Since I pay as little attention to the polis as possible, I've not noticed them getting younger.

What is a sign of increasing age is that electronic components are getting smaller ( Read more... )

You know when you're writing something and you find an article that you think breaks everything, but it accidentally makes everything much better? That.

Many other things are a vast amount of no fun at all, mind, so I guess it all balances out.

A five-minute Arduino lash-up.

(When I get around to writing more code) Sending me a tweet will cause the pointy birds to rotate around the watcher. Anointy-anointy.

It uses one of the stepper driver boards that I was pointed towards here, and five lines of code. £1.50, some rubber bands and a small amount of soldering. Bargain fun, I think.

Gah. I rarely write about the business of posting stuff to LJ because that way lies moaning about how no-one ever posts any more and that quickly becomes reductive and tiresome. However, it's just as easy to fall out of the habit as it is to fall into it ( Read more... )

( Still with the blaming other people. Or was it belming? )

( I blame Alison )

(Appropriately enough, Boards of Canada again.)
Several months ago, andrewducker and oletheros pointed me in the direction of thisI am forced to admit that it is very good indeed. Bus stop missing good, in fact. Ok, the Whovian bits are somewhat ho-hum[1], but speaking as a Culture fanboy, the rest is spot on ( Read more... )