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Richard Allsebrook posted an update in the group RepRap: 2 days, 13 hours ago · updated 3 hours, 33 minutes ago · View
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New external post Open Innovation Accelerator from the blog 100% Open in the group Open Innovation 4 hours, 14 minutes ago · View
On Sept 9th and 10th we ran our very first open innovation accelerator in partnership with Nick Jankel-Elliott wecreate. Below are the slides we used as part of the course. We’ll be uploading other content and videos from the accelerator on this blog post shortly. Also we will be running the accelerator again in April
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Sheffield Ruby User Group (@shruggers) is moving this month’s meet to 22 Sep. Koichi Sasada is in town! http://bit.ly/shrug10 #
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RT @richardathome: RT @syptweet: Missing: Police appeal for help to find missing Sheffield teenager: http://bit.ly/cep1O4 #
er – no idea why this tweet got posted here :-S
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New external post The .NET Micro Framework – Hardware for Software People from the blog Scott Hanselman in the group .NET User Group 2 days, 1 hour ago · View
I’m definitely a software person. I took EE in school and made an LED class, then a small computer like everyone else, and I know my volts and my amps for the most part, but that’s about it. The limits of my skills are somewhere around adding an LED and some resistors to leech power off a USB adapter (which I recently did while working on the Hanselcade retro arcade build ). I look at hardware guys like Clint Rutkas in awe . I mean, seriously, who builds a T-shirt cannon from scratch for fun ? Amazing. Clint sent me a "Netduino" board today. It’s similar to an Arduino [...]
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New external post Details on the 2010 Diabetes Walk and a Thank You from the blog Scott Hanselman in the group .NET User Group 2 days, 5 hours ago · View
Over the last few months I’ve blogged and tweeted about diabetes (in between my regular stuff) and you guys, Dear Readers, have be so kind as to donate over US$32,000 to Team Hanselman via the American Diabetes Association . We haven’t hit our arbitrary $50k goal, but I’m totally amazed we made it this far, using only and entirely social media . If you’re interested in learning more about Diabetes and Type 1 Diabetes (what I have) then check out some of the stuff made this summer. I recorded a podcast with Type 1 Diabetic Marathon Runner Gary Schmidt from runningwitht1.com I posted a number of times in my Diabetes category showing new [...]
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New external post Hanselminutes Podcast 230 – Continuous Deployment with Jon Tørresdal from the blog Scott Hanselman in the group .NET User Group 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
This week Scott talks to Jon Tørresdal from Norway via Skype. Jon is an Architect for a Norwegian insurance company, and an editor for InfoQ. His agile team practice Scrum and Jon shares his experiences making web deployment a no-click affair. What are the tools and techniques you need to make your automated build automate deployment to a production web farm? NOTE: If you want to download our complete archives as a feed – that’s all 230 shows, subscribe to the Complete MP3 Feed here . Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Links from the Show No-Click Web Deployment – Part 1 No-Click Web Deployment – Part 2 – Web Deploy (a.k.a. [...]
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New external post Hanselminutes Podcast 229 – OpenID and OpenAuth with DotNetOpenAuth open source programmer Andrew Arnott from the blog Scott Hanselman in the group .NET User Group 2 days, 6 hours ago · View
Scott talks to Andrew Arnott about OpenID and OpenAuth. What are these two protocols, how do they relate to each other and what do we as programmers need to know about them? Do you use Twitter? Then you use OpenAuth and may not realize it. Andrew works at Microsoft and works on the side on his open source project DotNetOpenAuth. NOTE: If you want to download our complete archives as a feed – that’s all 229 shows, subscribe to the Complete MP3 Feed here . Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Links from the Show Adding OpenAuth to the NerdDinner Sample DotNetOpenAuth Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF [...]
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@richardathome already done. we’re on the ball here, y’know?!
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New post from Twitter user shefphp in the group PHP User Group: 2 days, 9 hours ago · View
RT @gistwire: Sheffield PHP User Group is rescheduled to 16 Sep: http://bit.ly/shefphp1 #
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RT @gistwire: Sheffield PHP User Group is rescheduled to 16 Sep: http://bit.ly/shefphp1 #
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Sheffield PHP User Group is rescheduled to 16 Sep: http://bit.ly/shefphp1 #
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Chris Warburton posted an update in the group RepRap: 1 week ago · updated 2 days, 12 hours ago · View
Just to let the group know, I’ve now got a full time job with ocProducts, so the RepRap will have to move on to something of a backburner. I can’t make it to the lab now, but John doesn’t mind the machine moving temporarily, eg. to the gist lab or access space, if it’ll get working quicker (eg. via some evening tinkering by the RepRap & Shacknet people). We’ll have to sort such an arrangement out properly with John first though.
The RepRap itself, as Andy said, is pretty near completion. The Z axis is playing up (it’s been dodgy since the start), which will either need a simple tightening/lubricating/gluing/etc. which is just a matter of figuring out where; or else it may all be misaligned and need some hardcore tinkering. If Andy made it into the lab today then he’ll probably be able to give a much better estimate on this (he might’ve even got it running smoothly
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Yup spent the day with it yesterday. The Design of The Darwin Z axis is such that it nicely summs up all the friction of the four lift posts and dumps it on the one stepper motor. I realigned the frame and be yesterday and adjusted some of the tension out of the anti backlash spring assemblies. It seems to run a lot better now but is still in need of more friction reduction before it will be fit to print. It misses steps at low speeds. (may be possible to nudge the current up a little too).
Tidyed up the wiring etc too and secured the conduits.
All in all asuccesful day definite stpe change in the right direction but not yewt quite ready to pring. I will be going back next week for a nother day at it. Taking some lighter springs/spacers and some super glue to thread lock some of the more troublesome fasteners. Hopefuly soon it will be good to go.
Gratz on the job!
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Karl Buckland posted an update in the group Gnu/Linux: 2 days, 14 hours ago · View
Has anyone got any stories to share of a weird and wonderful places you’ve managed to cram linux?
My favourite project to date was converting a HP t5700 thin client into a game testing box. After trying a couple of different cheap thin clients I chanced upon this model. I upgraded the RAM to 512mb whipped out the ROM chip so it would look for boot images on attached USB devices then I installed Xubuntu on an 8GB USB stick. Once it was up and running I installed Java dev tools and now if we have a game that needs a lot of play testing on the server side I run a cut down version of the client side in command line on this little, silent, low power consuming, box and leave it running playing the game. It can play around 100,000 sessions of our games in a couple of hours.
Does anyone have linux running on their toaster?
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This is causing a stir in the MakerBot world. Some interesting comments on the Make: Blog…..
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/09/commercial_3d_printers_will_one_day.html#comments
I want one.
To be honest I can’t think of a single process that hasn’t got cheaper once it’s become commercialised. I can imagine in 5 years that you’ll be able to buy a basic 3D printer from PC world for £99. It’s much easier to bring the price down once you get into mass production.
I still think there will be a place for makers/tinkerers even when you can buy them built for less than you can make one from scratch. Hasn’t done the home built PC marker any harm