November 2016 interesting link dump

What has interested me in the month of November 2016

Projects

• Open Source Car Control - The Open Source Car Control Project is a hardware and software project detailing the conversion of a late model vehicle into an autonomous driving research and development vehicle.
• Quickdraw - Google AI learning. Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles? See how well it does with your drawings and help teach it, just by playing. AI Experiments.
• A 4-bit Calculator made in cardboard and marble
• ESP8266 + MQTT LED Controller - ESP8266 / H801 RGB controller using MQTT and WiFi onboarding - With programming via the Arduino IDE This is based on the following sources
• ESP8266 + double H-Bridge RC car - Espruino code to control a remote control car, using ESP8266, double H-Bridge, Websocket server and client. Control itself is provided by iotUI.js which is based on riot.js and HTML device orientation API on iPhone.
• Sparky, a DIY electric boat - An eletric boat made out of coroplast.

Books

• The Effective Engineer - First book in my works book club. It was a great refresher of good pratices.
• The Pragmatic Programmer

Knowledge

• Path to craftsmanship: Dont buy awful safety gear - A good guide on how to keep yourself alive when working on projects. It also includes a recommendations on what equipment to buy.
• Critical Making - Critical Making is a handmade book project by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work ‐ making.
• Doomsday planning for less crazy folk - When ever doomsday talk starts I point people at this article.
• Guerrilla guide to CNC - A great guild to setting up a CNC.
• What happens to Obama’s @POTUS Twitter account when he’s no longer POTUS - All his @POTUS tweets will be transferred to a new handle, @POTUS44 and Trump will gain control of this twitter account.
• The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji Or, How Google Brought Poop To America
• Master Class - Masters of their craft teaching others via video tutorial.
• Aphorism - noun - a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”.
• ESP barebones build environment - ESP barebones build environment focused on minimizing code size, as little as 131 bytes to boot up and blink an LED. It also “supports” some new, insane clock rates (like 346 MHz) and crazy development cycle speeds.
• Adafruit Neopixel Uberguide - A great refresher guild on how to power control WS2811, WS2812 LEDs
• Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - Running Ubuntu user-mode binaries provided by Canonical. This means the command-line utilities are the same as those that run within a native Ubuntu environment. I have been really impressed by bash on windows.
• STASH Storage Techniques for Art, Science and History - This website provides information and tools so that institutions of all types, sizes and resource levels can learn how to create safe and appropriate storage solutions. These solutions were written by and for collection care professionals in all fields.

Tools

• AliSeeks - Better way to search aliexpress.
• Parts Box.io - Electronic parts inventory management software. HAD
• winnie - Discover family-friendly restaurants, kids activities, playgrounds, shopping and more.
• Circle CL - Continuous integration and delivery for software.
• Mine Modular Midi Montroller - Mine consists of a matrix of 8×8 (rows columns), that allows the insertion of a maximum of 64 modules.
• Maslow CNC - a $500 open source 4 by 8 foot CNC Machine.

Talks/Videos

• Autodesk Product Innovation Keynote - Amar Hanspal

Art

• Bubble ceramics - Makes intersting patterns on ceramics with inky bubbles. This video describes her proccess. , etsy.
• Haute Circuits - PCB design as art. A join project between Eletroncis master Boldport aka Saar Drimer, and accomplished still-life photographer Mitch Feinberg
• Makers of Japan’s Traditional Amezaiku Candy Art.

Fun/Intersting

• Boldport Club - Beautifully designed eletronics projects each month.
• Crushing a camper with a vacuum
• Robot teamwork - Video of making a spring. an entier channel of these types of videos.
• Simpsons quote generator - Frinkiac has nearly 3 million Simpsons screencaps so get to searching for crying out glayvin!
• Music For Programming - A series of mixes intended for listening while ‘+task+’ to aid concentration and increase productivity
• Tesla coil powered film canister gatling gun - This has all the geek keywords you could ever want. Includes a video as well.
• Baby Iguana being chased by snakes - Possibly the greatest scene in documentary history. Reddit
• Web Bloat Score - Calulates the web bloat score of a page.
• Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Scarlett Johansson Movie - I have very fond memories of the animaited version from 1995.

• Slightly Left of Centre - Love The Way You Move (LTWYM) Official Music Video