[Fran] and [Bil] are back again for the first Dinosaur Den of 2015. Highlights of this edition include a surprisingly young tri-power supply and Nixie display cards from 1965.
The game of Go has been turned into a sequencer. That’s a project from [Kristian Gohlke] and [Michael Hlatky]. It’s an industrial camera placed above a Go board, and some computer vision algorithms to detect stones on the board. There’s a 16×16 section to create drum patterns (black stones) or synth notes (white stones). Below that there’s a 16×3 grid for the bass notes, two 3×8 grids to control filters and effects, and a 3×3 grid to play percussive loops.
HOW TO REMOVE A GPS ANKLE MONITOR. We had to get the SEO right on this one. Here’s how you can ditch your probation officer for a weekend. Great news: his parents used their house for bail, now an entire family is homeless. Lesson learned: use a burner phone and call forwarding until you’re out of the country.
The Computer History Museum is doing a great series of interviews, and this one is with [Bob Dobkin], former director at National Semiconductor, and co-founder of Linear. Analog design isn’t wizardry, you just need a decade of experience.
[Simon] over at the Hack42 hackerspace finally found the time to repair their old Holborn 9120 terminal – the most space-age terminal ever built. The keyboard is an old Keytronic unit, and the foam underneath the keys had turned to dust. This was replaced with an Ikea mousepad, foam tape, and the foil from a discarded bag of chips. It worked, and they got their terminal to load our retro edition:
If you have some old hardware, try to point it at our retro site, take a picture (or post a writeup) and send it on in.
Hmmm, shouldn’t that read “How NOT to Remove A GPS Ankle Monitor”? Swinging it around from a ceiling fan might make it look like you are pacing the floor, 24/7.
I thought those ankle bracelet monitors have tamper-proof straps that would alarm the authorities when sliced off?
Cheapest state approved contractor wining the tender (with possible backhanders) comes to mind. And ageing hardware, I’m sure that not all of the GPS trackers in rotation are the latest state of the art technology when it comes to tamper-proof protection.
The article author says ‘sliced’, the marshals say ‘removed’ and on the picture it does not look ‘sliced’
And they say ‘GPS tracker’ when we all know indoors GPS is highly unreliable to work and those things use a base station in the home.
And seeing it had motion sensors and a possibility to communicate with the wearer and what not I don’t think it was all that old or poor tech.
Ungh, that Holborn is sexy.
I should realy visit Hack42 :P anyway great links so far HaD :D