by Carlyn Maw on July 26, 2013, no comments
via Jezebel From Vimeo Description Meet 97-year-old Hal Lasko. Better known as Grandpa, he spent his entire working life as a graphic artist, back when everything was done by hand. When he retired his family showed him the computer. He didn’t find much use for it until he discovered Microsoft Paint. He ws hooked. Since […]
by Carlyn Maw on July 9, 2013, no comments
I’m calling it Found @ CRASH Space and it is all about the random items that show up there and what people can do with them. The first one is about turning an old Apple iPod power supply into an Arduino compatible source of 12V.
by Carlyn Maw on August 30, 2012, no comments
For those of you who care about such things, there is a potential exploit for Java 7 (1.7) which I tragically found out about on Slate about a week later than I really ought to have had. Doh. That said, as a mac user who is squirly about installin…
by Carlyn Maw on April 17, 2012, no comments
TL;DR I’m really glad I went back and tried Wings3D. It is an OpenSource GUI based modeler that is relatively easy to use and intuitive. Documentation is lacking, but there is enough to get started and stay interested. Wings3D also supports the mo…
by Carlyn Maw on April 16, 2012, no comments
TL; DR OpenJsCad is another entry in the “model as programing problem” category. OpenJsCad has more flexibility than OpenSCAD but is currently way less pleasant to use. OpenJsCad embraces dynamic variables. Even the shapes are variables. OpenSCAD …
by Carlyn Maw on April 6, 2012, one comment
TL;DR Blender has one of the steepest learning curves of any software I’ve tried to use in a long time. The climb is worth it for the computer savvy if the end goal is to produce a character model that can be used in animations and printed out as …
by Carlyn Maw on April 5, 2012, no comments
TL;DR Just easy. Well, “just easy” after watching about 20-30 minutes of intro videos. Everything I wanted to be able to do, I could. With options comes complexity; I had to spend some time strategizing how to approach building the model since the…
by Carlyn Maw on November 17, 2011, no comments
Or the answer to – So Carlyn, what happened to the Drupal Series?It is still going, but I had an “Wordpress Emergency” to attend to. My mom has a website. She’s had it for a while but it has been neglected. I built it back in 2007 in Wordpress. Wh…
by Carlyn Maw on November 7, 2011, one comment
Chapter 4 in dgd7 is all about modules. The chapter authors start with some general notes about modules people are making “top N drupal modules” list all the time (first one is their example, 2 & 3 are mine) http://nodeone.se/blogg/modules-for-sus…
by Carlyn Maw on November 6, 2011, no comments
So In the end I followed along with all 23 videos from the NodeOne Series on Views. The tl:dr version of what I learned – What is available to you in any given menu in the admin section of Drupal changes pretty dramatically depending on what other…
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