Instructables
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I mentioned in the last post that I had a fun topic to share to help get the new decade started. Well, here it is! I've been collaborating with Elias Cohenca from our Tel Aviv office on and off over the last few years: Elias managed to port the THREE.MeshLine JavaScript library to work with THREE.js r71, making it compatible with the current releases of the Forge viewer. We've made heavy use of this library in Dasher 360 to represent skeletons and streamlines, for instance. I've also been mentoring Elias, something I mentioned in this post from the middle of…
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To celebrate this year's Halloween, we went along to Instructables (like several million other people – this is the site's big ticket event of the year, apparently) and found a really fun project to make, Halloween chocolate skulls. Living in Switzerland is great, but sometimes I miss the ready availability of various products that we enjoyed when living in the US. Getting started was easy enough: we managed to get Fimo very easily from the local shops (it's a European product, after all), and – with the help of a YouTube video and a few pictures – I used that…
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I've started to find time to start playing with the Arduino Experimentation Kit I bought myself for Christmas. So far, I've just embarked on the first two example circuits provided with the kit. The first one blinks an LED, the second blinks multiple LEDs in sequence. Hence the name of this post, which I've borrowed from the excellent Eels album. At my son's request, I modified the code from the second project very slightly to blink the LEDs from the middle outwards, but otherwise I followed the (very clear and straightforward) instructions to the letter. Nothing very exciting, I admit,…