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I am '''currently working on''':
 
I am '''currently working on''':
* a third visit to Hackspace
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* [https://icibici.github.io/site icibici], a £20 brain-computer interface; <span style="color:red">[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/icibici talk to us]</span>!
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I '''would like to''':
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* find a <span style="color:red">team interested in building an AI to play [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game) Diplomacy]</span>.  A short presentation is [http://www.wrongdoing.org/181004_Diplomacy_AI.pdf here]
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* code up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes Black-Scholes option pricing formula] in an [http://esolangs.org/wiki esoteric programming language] to add to Espen Haug's [http://www.espenhaug.com/black_scholes.html list]
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* find a good use for my [http://www.wrongdoing.org www.wrongdoing.org] domain
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* open source the [http://www.panniers.com/ Arkel]'s discontinued [http://www.velovisionmag.co.uk/showStory.php?storynum=1220 Samurai] panniers
  
 
I '''have''':
 
I '''have''':
* a [http://www.myzeo.com/sleep Zeo Personal Sleep Coach]
 
* a Suunto t3 heart rate monitor, with chest strap and watch
 
 
* a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set and First LEGO League Challenge 2011 kit
 
* a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set and First LEGO League Challenge 2011 kit
* a ZX81 (somewhere?) with 16k of RAM, and an HP-15C
 
 
* an [http://www.earthshineelectronics.com/10-arduino-starter-kit.html Arduino Uno R3 starter kit] from [http://www.earthshineelectronics.com Earthshine Electronics]
 
* an [http://www.earthshineelectronics.com/10-arduino-starter-kit.html Arduino Uno R3 starter kit] from [http://www.earthshineelectronics.com Earthshine Electronics]
 
* a Kindle
 
* a Kindle
* a Raspberry Pi (forthcoming)
 
 
* a bunch of old mobile phones (including a SE K608i, a k800i, and a Nokia E90)
 
* a bunch of old mobile phones (including a SE K608i, a k800i, and a Nokia E90)
* a pair of intact but dysfunctional Realistic TRC-201 GRS transceivers (walkie-talkies)
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* a Go and a Mancala board
* a 110 litre tropical fishtank
 
* a Go board
 
 
* a vintage Air Zound rechargeable signal horn
 
* a vintage Air Zound rechargeable signal horn
 
* a Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent
 
* a Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent
* a Sony CRX1600L (wired for North America)
 
* an AlcoSense Elite digital breathalyser
 
* a children's [http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/427858873/Weather_Station.html weather station]
 
 
* an article in [http://www.adbusters.org Adbusters]
 
* an article in [http://www.adbusters.org Adbusters]
* three children with recent incept dates (do not hack)
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* two children with Y2K-compliant incept dates (Do Not Hack)
 
* one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
 
* one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
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* <code> 3/4* round([http://www.id.carleton.ca/ Bachelor of Industrial Design]) = 0</code>
  
 
I '''know how to''':
 
I '''know how to''':
 
* pick a two-pin lock
 
* pick a two-pin lock
* write in {{Template:LaTeX}}, including Beamer and PGF/TikZ
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* write in {{Template:LaTeX}}, most enjoyably Till Tantau's [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/ PGF/TikZ] and Ulrike Fischer's [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard chessboard] and [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xskak xskak]
  
I '''would like to''':
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I '''have sourced [http://http://blinkybug.com/ Blinkybug] components''' almost entirely from London shops:
* help my children engrave their names on their Haipad M7/Herotab C8/Dropad A8 tablets, and perhaps even repair the screen on one of them
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* 5mm LEDs from [http://maplin.co.uk Maplin]
* hack my Zeo so that it can indicate how well rested I am, not just how well I'm sleeping
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* 3V 2032 Li coin cell batteries from almost anywhere ([http://homebase.co.uk Homebase] was more expensive than the local [http://www.postoffice.co.uk Post Office])
* hack my Kindle so that it can do what a Linux box should be able to do
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* guitar string (high E, custom guage 9) from [http://www.folkiesonline.com Folkies Music]
* code up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes Black-Scholes option pricing formula] in an [http://esolangs.org/wiki esoteric programming language] to add to Espen Haug's [http://www.espenhaug.com/black_scholes.html list]
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* 1.6mm OD copper tubing from [http://www.modelshop.co.uk/ 4D modelshop]
* build a roving aquatic cam-bot for our aquarium (heros: Cambridge's [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html coffee cam] and Liquid Robotics' [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17367984 PacX Wave Gliders])
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* pipe cleaners and craft glue dots from [http://www.londonart-shop.co.uk/ London Art]
* unlock my Desire HD so that I can use a foreign SIM card in it when travelling
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* [http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?CMP=i-ddd7-00001003&sku=8868557 conductive tape] from [http://uk.farnell.com Farnell]
* find a good use for my [http://www.wrongdoing.org www.wrongdoing.org] domain
 
* make an A3 e-paper device linked to Google Calendar for our kitchen
 

Latest revision as of 20:16, 5 October 2018

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Colin Rowat, c.rowat@espero.org.uk

I am currently working on:

I would like to:

I have:

  • a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set and First LEGO League Challenge 2011 kit
  • an Arduino Uno R3 starter kit from Earthshine Electronics
  • a Kindle
  • a bunch of old mobile phones (including a SE K608i, a k800i, and a Nokia E90)
  • a Go and a Mancala board
  • a vintage Air Zound rechargeable signal horn
  • a Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent
  • an article in Adbusters
  • two children with Y2K-compliant incept dates (Do Not Hack)
  • one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
  • 3/4* round(Bachelor of Industrial Design) = 0

I know how to:

  • pick a two-pin lock
  • write in LaTeX, most enjoyably Till Tantau's PGF/TikZ and Ulrike Fischer's chessboard and xskak

I have sourced Blinkybug components almost entirely from London shops: