Plants

I was browsing Reddit when I saw this cartoon. I immediately related to it, because I sometimes forget to water my bonsai and at one time I actually killed one dry. And I bet I’m far from alone in this.

07 de agosto de 2018

NASA open-sources its mini Mars rover, turns out to be a son of a (r)Pi

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) developed a mini version of the Mars Curiosity Rover, and open sourced the design and software used. The source is hosted at the agency’s Github account. The project uses mostly consumer off-the-shelf parts. One of them is a Raspberry Pi, used as the “brain” of the rover. From the Github repo: JPL is always looking to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and roboticists to help us explore and learn about our solar system (and beyond!...

02 de agosto de 2018

note-keeper, a script for your note taking needs

note-keeper is a small bash script to simplify the creation, editing and management of notes. It uses the text editor set up in the $EDITOR environment variable, but if that variable is empty it defaults to Vim in insert mode. (the image from this post is the one found in the script repository at the time of this article publishing)

02 de agosto de 2018

Luis Peixoto e a fusão do cavaquinho com a eletrónica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xapNZm2pg1o Acabei de conhecer esta maravilha através do Reddit, no /r/listentothis. Se gostaram e quiserem conhecer mais trabalhos do conimbricense Luís Peixoto, podem visitar o seu canal no Youtube.

30 de julho de 2018