SHDC#7 is complete! Great to see some new faces and new projects :)
Actually ended up being a lot of discussion and not much production!
A sumo robot appeared. It turned out one project that was being
planned had been explored by someone else in a previous life (time to
dust that off). Some playing with a cut down embedded python project.
Fiddling with motors and propellers. But mostly chatting, beer and
cake.
So dates for SHDC#8...
* Sat 14th June
* Sat 5th July
Please vote/reply to show your potential attendance and help pick a
day!
> SHDC#7 is complete! Great to see some new faces and new projects :) > Actually ended up being a lot of discussion and not much production!
> A sumo robot appeared. It turned out one project that was being > planned had been explored by someone else in a previous life (time to > dust that off). Some playing with a cut down embedded python project. > Fiddling with motors and propellers. But mostly chatting, beer and > cake.
> So dates for SHDC#8... > * Sat 14th June > * Sat 5th July
> Please vote/reply to show your potential attendance and help pick a > day!
I think I'll be repurposing a people counter module to make it an odometer for my sons pushchair. After a day out I feel like I have walked bloody miles (I often keep walking to keep him asleep, even when everyone else has stopped). I'd like to have an actual number for how far I've walked...
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Hi All,
SHDC#7 is complete! Great to see some new faces and new projects :) Actually ended up being a lot of discussion and not much production!
A sumo robot appeared. It turned out one project that was being planned had been explored by someone else in a previous life (time to dust that off). Some playing with a cut down embedded python project. Fiddling with motors and propellers. But mostly chatting, beer and cake.
So dates for SHDC#8... * Sat 14th June * Sat 5th July
Please vote/reply to show your potential attendance and help pick a day!
Cheers, Simon
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Sat 14th June is what i'm going with! So put it in your diary, reply
to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can
contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
Given we seem to be most productive on even numbered SHDC's, this
should be a good one!
> Sat 14th June is what i'm going with! So put it in your diary, reply > to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can > contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
Sorry, missed last session due to unexpected foreign travel.
> Sat 14th June is what i'm going with! So put it in your diary, reply > to this thread (or http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/713215/) so we can > contact you, and pass it on to your hacker friends!
> Given we seem to be most productive on even numbered SHDC's, this > should be a good one!
June 14th is good for me - I'm gutted missing the last few (blames
life's brownian motion).
Do you still have the mindstorm motors kicking around simon? I've got
a lego technic strandbeest that wants to live!
Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
scour the web...
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going > downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could > authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to > scour the web...
I'd been thinking that linking them in with social networking would give you: a) Too many buzzwords b) a system where you see the stuff that people like you (ie, whichever stratum of the dumb masses you belong to :P) like. Maybe have a popularity threshold above which a story that none of your friends noticed would hit your 'homepage' too? 'F-igg' could be the name...
Yup, thats about the idea! Here's the hacky bit -
1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
that carry that link.
3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
...
profit ;)
Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
digg.
I registered http://feedcake.com last week (mostly because I thought
it was a cool domain, rather than planning to build something on it).
Then again the new google app engine will give you half a million page
loads per month of nothing (if you write in python) ...
On Jun 5, 10:32 am, "Jonathan Austin" <j.m.aus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
> > downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
> > authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
> > scour the web...
> I'd been thinking that linking them in with social networking would give
> you:
> a) Too many buzzwords
> b) a system where you see the stuff that people like you (ie, whichever
> stratum of the dumb masses you belong to :P) like. Maybe have a popularity
> threshold above which a story that none of your friends noticed would hit
> your 'homepage' too?
> 'F-igg' could be the name...
oops...forgot one
4) people are just show links with high merit (feeds are hidden),
weighted by time I guess.
not sure xkcd's approach is the right way to go - it's easy to say
something uniquely dum, but when lots of people say it, then it means
something.
Neat thing here is that you can give feeds negative weights, so you
can give the xkcd's rss feed lots of negative weights to bury it. Not
that i would - tis the best thing about mon, wed & fris...
On Jun 5, 9:42 pm, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup, thats about the idea! Here's the hacky bit -
> 1) treat the things that people up/down-mod as their own feed.
> 2) links accumulate merit based on the user's weighting of the feeds
> that carry that link.
> 3) the merit of each feed is adjusted as people up/down-mode a link.
> ...
> profit ;)
> Combines the lifestreams of twitter with the popularity fest that is
> digg.
> I registeredhttp://feedcake.comlast week (mostly because I thought
> it was a cool domain, rather than planning to build something on it).
> Then again the new google app engine will give you half a million page
> loads per month of nothing (if you write in python) ...
> On Jun 5, 10:32 am, "Jonathan Austin" <j.m.aus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, tom <twake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Got some cunning ideas to stop usr news sites (reddit/digg) going
> > > downhill when the dum masses find them. The missing concept could
> > > authority - now I just need the google bot net for an afternoon to
> > > scour the web...
> > I'd been thinking that linking them in with social networking would give
> > you:
> > a) Too many buzzwords
> > b) a system where you see the stuff that people like you (ie, whichever
> > stratum of the dumb masses you belong to :P) like. Maybe have a popularity
> > threshold above which a story that none of your friends noticed would hit
> > your 'homepage' too?
> > 'F-igg' could be the name...
I'd have used the Yahoo thingy to tell you as much, but I can't remember my Yahoo ID or password (and am hesitant to create a new one, seems wasteful).
I'm going to mess about with thermo-plastics and create some mounting brackets on my bike for my sensor array / mbed-board, I /am/ going to get this project started!
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