Today I discovered Low Tech Sensors and Actuators while reading Getting Started with Arduino. It’s a report about how to salvage electronics from cheap toys to make various types of systems which can interact with their environment.
Category Archives: Inspiration
How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code (hint: it’s Waterfall!)
In my feed today: How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code. He separates research, planning, and implementation phases, as he says: “Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.”
I might be the first to point out: this is Waterfall! Micro-waterfall?
X-TREME 3D RC HELICOPTER FLYING
Okay, these guys are just showing off.
DIY BluesBreaker
In this video Ruckus Audio makes a BluesBreaker for his guitar.
Solving Impossible Problems with Dan Gelbart
This interview with Dan Gelbart looks interesting, but I don’t have two hours spare to watch it! You can learn more about Dan Gelbart here: The optimistic inventor: Dan Gelbart, Weizmann-identified whiz kid, recalls a storied career. His popular YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/dgelbart.
Undeformable pen clip
I love what these guys are doing with clips and such.
How to WIN the Game of Earth
In this one Chase Hughes talks about this game we’re playing on Earth.
How A True Polymath Like Benjamin Franklin Learns
In the video we learn about Franklin’s learning principles:
- Reconstruct from memory
- The Socratic method
- Utility first learning
- Argument mapping
- Polymathematics
- Sociable learning
- Read constantly
- Follow your interests
And how to think like Benjamin Franklin:
- Follow your interest
- Think very deeply into it
- Strengthen all sides of an argument
- Experiment like an inventor
Why Almost Everything Is Actually a Spring
I have a lot of mathematics to learn!
One ROM 40 – 16-Bit ROM Replacement for Amiga and Beyond
The latest One ROM installment from Piers Rocks. He made his own PIO/DMA emulator and One ROM logic analyzer, as one does.