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Kinder für Technik begeistern: Gadgets, Plattformen, Tipps | c’t uplink
Programmieren mit Scratch, basteln mit dem Elektrobaukasten, Roboter selbst lenken – Kinder begreifen Technik auf verschiedensten Wegen. Wir geben Tipps.
#ct #ctuplink #Elektronik #IT #Journal #Maker #Programmiersprachen #Roboter #Spiele #Technik #Wettbewerb #news
Kinder für Technik begeistern: Gadgets, Plattformen, Tipps | c’t uplink
Programmieren mit Scratch, basteln mit dem Elektrobaukasten, Roboter selbst lenken – Kinder begreifen Technik auf verschiedensten Wegen. Wir geben Tipps.
#ct #ctuplink #Elektronik #IT #Journal #Maker #Programmiersprachen #Roboter #Spiele #Technik #Wettbewerb #news
#Vale Wes Smith ❤️🩹
my 90 year-old dad died last night after a very long life, a long decline, multiple hospitalisations, and the last couple of months spent in hospital & a repat facility
lots of complex feelings for me, but I’m glad he no longer needs to struggle in difficult circumstances (largely of his own creation, but still ❤️🩹)
when he was young, he travelled the world in the Merchant Navy in the loud, hot bellies of large cargo ships amongst the enormous engines with pistons several times taller than himself. he only spent a short time in each port – a tasting menu, you might say – but he felt that he had seen the entire world by the time he got married
he worked many jobs in his long career, most of them spent bending metal to his will, often shaping machines into new forms to perform tasks for which they were never originally designed. he worked long hours to provide financially for his family – which he saw as his main duty in life – but also because he loved working with machines & solving engineering problems born of metal. grease. electricity.
he was a fitter & turner, a boiler-maker, a repairer & maintainer, a “keeper-runnerer”, a tinkerer. he used tools to design & make other tools to make machines. I’m sure that some of my own interests & skills were influenced by growing up watching him execute his craft, hearing him talk about his work, & being dragged along to yet another industrial robot exhibition 😩😜
he was a life-long learner, and my own love of 🤔 – or at least facility with – computers & electronics & code (oh my!) were things he saw (and understood) and supported. in the late 1970s or very early 1980s he took a programming course (which was the spelling at the time 😜) at the local TAFE, and he took me along – a rare opportunity in that era. my first hands-on experience with code at 11 or 12 years old was in the form of mapping out & writing programmes down by hand on graph paper & then encoding them on a stack of mark sense cards with a B2 pencil to be fed into a card reader (and drawing that all-important diagonal line down the side of the stack with said pencil – #IYKYK 😆)
it wasn’t long until I had begged sufficiently & got my very first computer (that we absolutely couldn’t really afford), a #CoCo – the original #TRS80 #ColorComputer model in “battleship grey” with 16K RAM 😲, later upgraded to a whopping 64K 🤯 🤯
I still have that computer over 40 years later 😊
after he retired, he always had several ambitious plans on the boil (less charitable folks might call them “hare-brained schemes” 🙃), including a petrol-powered all-terrain tracked wheelchair for a friend who wanted to be able to travel off the beaten path under his own (metaphorical) steam. it would have ended up weighing about a tonne & absolutely would never have worked (safely), but he was determined to “help” a friend & excited to work on solving an interesting engineering challenge, once again bending metal and machinery to his purpose du jour
he was happiest noodling in his workshop, oil- & grease-stained hands deep inside a machine, wielding – or welding – a new tool of his own design. I always associated the smell of machines and ozone with his presence. until after he retired I never saw his hands unstained by years of ingrained, immovable grease
in his later years he discovered #3Dprinting and became a journeyman #maker of sorts. he was exceptionally proud (and a bit obnoxious) when he was able to “teach the professionals at #U3A a thing or two” about his new hobby. his idea of a conversation had always been (impatiently) waiting for you to take a breath so he could tell you the next thing he was interested in – usually unconnected to whatever you’d shared 💁♀️
he used a succession of smallish 3D printers to make many, many Japanese-inspired lanterns (into which he stuffed various strings of coloured flashing lights) and Chinese-inspired dragons, amazed & delighted that additive manufacturing was able to create interlocking objects right off the print bed – after having spent a lifetime creating sometimes-intricate interlocking components using tried-and-true subtractive manufacturing processes. he gave most of these prints away to others – whether they wanted them or not 😆
he was a fitter & turner, a boiler-maker, a repairer & maintainer, a “keeper-runnerer”, a tinkerer
and he was my father
#Vale Wes Smith ❤️🩹
1935-2025
#Vale Wes Smith ❤️🩹
my 90 year-old dad died last night after a very long life, a long decline, multiple hospitalisations, and the last couple of months spent in hospital & a repat facility
lots of complex feelings for me, but I’m glad he no longer needs to struggle in difficult circumstances (largely of his own creation, but still ❤️🩹)
when he was young, he travelled the world in the Merchant Navy in the loud, hot bellies of large cargo ships amongst the enormous engines with pistons several times taller than himself. he only spent a short time in each port – a tasting menu, you might say – but he felt that he had seen the entire world by the time he got married
he worked many jobs in his long career, most of them spent bending metal to his will, often shaping machines into new forms to perform tasks for which they were never originally designed. he worked long hours to provide financially for his family – which he saw as his main duty in life – but also because he loved working with machines & solving engineering problems born of metal. grease. electricity.
he was a fitter & turner, a boiler-maker, a repairer & maintainer, a “keeper-runnerer”, a tinkerer. he used tools to design & make other tools to make machines. I’m sure that some of my own interests & skills were influenced by growing up watching him execute his craft, hearing him talk about his work, & being dragged along to yet another industrial robot exhibition 😩😜
he was a life-long learner, and my own love of 🤔 – or at least facility with – computers & electronics & code (oh my!) were things he saw (and understood) and supported. in the late 1970s or very early 1980s he took a programming course (which was the spelling at the time 😜) at the local TAFE, and he took me along – a rare opportunity in that era. my first hands-on experience with code at 11 or 12 years old was in the form of mapping out & writing programmes down by hand on graph paper & then encoding them on a stack of mark sense cards with a B2 pencil to be fed into a card reader (and drawing that all-important diagonal line down the side of the stack with said pencil – #IYKYK 😆)
it wasn’t long until I had begged sufficiently & got my very first computer (that we absolutely couldn’t really afford), a #CoCo – the original #TRS80 #ColorComputer model in “battleship grey” with 16K RAM 😲, later upgraded to a whopping 64K 🤯 🤯
I still have that computer over 40 years later 😊
after he retired, he always had several ambitious plans on the boil (less charitable folks might call them “hare-brained schemes” 🙃), including a petrol-powered all-terrain tracked wheelchair for a friend who wanted to be able to travel off the beaten path under his own (metaphorical) steam. it would have ended up weighing about a tonne & absolutely would never have worked (safely), but he was determined to “help” a friend & excited to work on solving an interesting engineering challenge, once again bending metal and machinery to his purpose du jour
he was happiest noodling in his workshop, oil- & grease-stained hands deep inside a machine, wielding – or welding – a new tool of his own design. I always associated the smell of machines and ozone with his presence. until after he retired I never saw his hands unstained by years of ingrained, immovable grease
in his later years he discovered #3Dprinting and became a journeyman #maker of sorts. he was exceptionally proud (and a bit obnoxious) when he was able to “teach the professionals at #U3A a thing or two” about his new hobby. his idea of a conversation had always been (impatiently) waiting for you to take a breath so he could tell you the next thing he was interested in – usually unconnected to whatever you’d shared 💁♀️
he used a succession of smallish 3D printers to make many, many Japanese-inspired lanterns (into which he stuffed various strings of coloured flashing lights) and Chinese-inspired dragons, amazed & delighted that additive manufacturing was able to create interlocking objects right off the print bed – after having spent a lifetime creating sometimes-intricate interlocking components using tried-and-true subtractive manufacturing processes. he gave most of these prints away to others – whether they wanted them or not 😆
he was a fitter & turner, a boiler-maker, a repairer & maintainer, a “keeper-runnerer”, a tinkerer
and he was my father
#Vale Wes Smith ❤️🩹
1935-2025
Let the games begin!
Clue #1 is out for the latest Stephen West MKAL called MusiKAL. This one has a real good vibe. Clue #1 is a bit of a challenge but fun, like most of his patterns are.
Want to join in? Clues every Thursday.
#MKAL #WestknitsMKAL2025 #WestknitsMysteryMusiKAL #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
Let the games begin!
Clue #1 is out for the latest Stephen West MKAL called MusiKAL. This one has a real good vibe. Clue #1 is a bit of a challenge but fun, like most of his patterns are.
Want to join in? Clues every Thursday.
#MKAL #WestknitsMKAL2025 #WestknitsMysteryMusiKAL #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
Bonjour le Fédivers !
La tournée 2025 du "Fabriqué en Occitanie" se clôture à Montpellier les vendredi 17 et samedi 18 octobre place du Nombre d'Or de 10h à 19h.
J'y présenterai mes créatures qui mélangeront leurs rêves avec les vôtres : Kamishibai (boîte à histoire), Hakomorebi (boîte décorative lumineuse) et Horinowaku (gravures sur bois) seront là pour vous rencontrer !
Il y aura aussi Ma Machine Et Moi du @RoseLab
#artisanat #local #marché #lasercut #fablab #maker #Montpellier #occitanie
Portland Prepares for War
#portland #pdx #politics #casPol #casPolitics #cascadia #CascadiaStrong #knitting #maker #oregon
Today, at the Maker Faire, someone came to my booth...after a brief look at my art, they said "oh! I see your work on Mastodon!"
Turns out they see it when @artcollisions boosts my posts.
Things may not go "viral" here, but the connections are more important...more human....more real.
And yes, they bought some of my art.
I also met someone today who told me about a safety class for laser cutters...here in San Francisco! Super big win, for me!
Portland Prepares for War
#portland #pdx #politics #casPol #casPolitics #cascadia #CascadiaStrong #knitting #maker #oregon
Today, at the Maker Faire, someone came to my booth...after a brief look at my art, they said "oh! I see your work on Mastodon!"
Turns out they see it when @artcollisions boosts my posts.
Things may not go "viral" here, but the connections are more important...more human....more real.
And yes, they bought some of my art.
I also met someone today who told me about a safety class for laser cutters...here in San Francisco! Super big win, for me!
Someone here recently was looking for size-inclusive knitting patterns. These 20 are all dupes, sized up. See link!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator @Crafters #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
I am on the hunt for people who make things. Physical things. Physical things in a workshop. Or at home. Or in a studio. Or outside. But they have to be physical things. And you make them. Handmade or with machines.
I’d like to follow you and see what you make.
Please can you boost this post so that I get some reach on this post.
Many thanks.
#maker #crafting #crafts #workshop #handmade #woodworking #metalwork #paper #fabric
Before I give up on it, does anyone have a schematic for a subzero SZPA-P88 PA system? Usual places have drawn a blank, and I suspect it’s not available anywhere. #makershour #maker #repaircafe #repairs #fix #electronics #paSystem #UK
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