This is parts of a series on making a RepRap.
Because we’re not used to working with electronics, the BOM (Bill of Materials) of the RepRap (as found on the RepRap wiki) looks pretty frightening at first. After a second, third and fourth look things became a bit clearer.
RepRap is an open source replicating rapid prototyper, available under the GPL license. You can assemble it with (most) parts available in your local hardware shop. More then fifty percent of a new RepRap can be printed out by other RepRap’s. And we are building one…
Last weekend, a bunch of enthusiastic geeks participated in a competition to create a website (-app) build on Ruby on Rails in just 48 hours – Railsrumble.
On the Web 2.0 Expo in NY, Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library) did a talk called “Building personal brand within the social media lan” that I just don’t want to keep from you;
Although I was pretty skeptical about the schedule at first, I decided to attend dConstruct, a conference that was on my wishlist since I’ve heard about it.
dConstruct is the affordable one day conference for people designing and building the latest generation of social web applications.
Steven Johnson kicked it off with a talk on the [...]
I’ve just uploaded the blog to wordpress 2.5.1.
With this, I finally installed a theme I’m considering for a long time now.
Let me know what you think about it!
Yesterday I heard about a project I just love.
Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo (33 yrs) started hitch-hiking in Milan heading for Jeruzalem. She wanted to promote world peace with this project and did it dressed as a bride.
I just love how people can do extraordinary stuff for the wellbeing of others.
Funny no-one (including me) in [...]
This week I played the target, a citygame by La Mosca organized by Plugmedia.
A dangerous gangster has just escaped from prison in The target. He is terrorising the city because a client will give him money for every crime he commits.
Three policemen are sent to catch the man before he has managed to collect [...]
Started the day with a session about Red5 server by Chris Allen. Really want to start playing with that stuff.
Next session was about Stylizing Flex Applications by Joey Lott. Was a bit dull and the half of the presentation was a lesson in CSS .
Before lunch break I went to see Andre Michelle with [...]
After another English breakfast, day 2 of Flash on the beach started. A bit tired from the previous 2 I kicked off the day with “Flex and ActionScript 3 Worst Practices” from Ted Patrick. Nothing really new, but a nice enumeration of some good and bad practices.
Next speaker I saw was Craig Swann with his [...]
