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10 simple things search engines could do to save my sanity

Posted on July 30, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Uncategorized

I have felt for a while that web searching is still an awkward thing from a Human Computer Interaction point of view. So I made a wish list of simple improvements that would literally turn my world upside-down.

TaggedDesignHCIList_ofObserving society

How to make coloured text in acrylic with spray paint.

Posted on July 24, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Educational, Uncategorized

Laser engraving text on acrylic / perspex does not create a lot of contrast. This leads to the subject of painting text on the acrylic. I have developed some useful methods of achieving this that I thought I would share.

TaggedCAMFontsLaser_CutterPaint

Maze Making Software

Posted on July 3, 2015by duckmanCategories:Software, Uncategorized

This software creates mazes of different sizes and configurable appearance. It is designed for teachers. It can save the output as printable sheets or bitmap images.

TaggedEdcucationalGraphicsMazePuzzleSoftware

List of the best pages/software that empowers you to generate awesome procedural art.

Posted on June 30, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Uncategorized

  Firstly, you will find none of the “lets make homework cool” type stuff here. The Internet has become a much more stimulating place for maths, visualisation and generative images. This is in part driven by the death of those “java applets” as wonderful HTML5 based interactive maths content takes glorious hold. Trying to keep pace with …
Continue reading List of the best pages/software that empowers you to generate awesome procedural art.

TaggedArtFractalGraphicsList_of

The scientific breakthrough discovered by inserting tampons into peoples noses.

Posted on June 24, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Uncategorized

So your here because you just couldn’t resit the title… or you used some very odd search terms in Google. In any case, welcome to the article that gave me the most pause to write about so far. Background. !t was the 1960s (this decade is developing a bit of a reputation) and doctors were treating …
Continue reading The scientific breakthrough discovered by inserting tampons into peoples noses.

TaggedEmotionHuman_FaceMedicalNeuroscienceScience

What’s inside an integrated circuit? We broke one open and scanned it for you at 12,800DPI

Posted on June 24, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Educational

Because you always wondered what was inside. See if you can guess which IC it was? Useful image for teachers, overhead slides etc. NB: This is not always a good DIY or classroom activity. Be aware that some electrical components create a seriously hazardous dust when broken open. Rectifiers, Hi Power transistors, Older IC’s & IC’s with certain …
Continue reading What’s inside an integrated circuit? We broke one open and scanned it for you at 12,800DPI

TaggedEdcucationalElectronicsGraphicsHi-Res Scan

Neat maths trick with an orange. Bonus: the worst duck joke ever!

Posted on June 24, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Educational

Draw five dots anywhere on an orange with a white board marker.  There is a way to cut the orange exactly in half so that at least four of the dots are visible on one side.  Can you figure out how? Solution in this video.

TaggedBad humorHumorMathsOrangesPuzzleRubber Ducks

The worlds best rubber duck collections… because awesome is not just for giant robot dinosaurs.

Posted on June 21, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

Welcome to the se-duck-tive world of duck collecting.

TaggedDucksList_ofRubber Ducks

Crossword Software (alpha)

Posted on June 20, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Software, Uncategorized

Easy to use software to generate crossword puzzles.
This is still very much alpha software (totally unfinished). I appreciate anyone who wants to kick the tyres and let me know what they think.

TaggedCrosswordDictionaryLinguisticsPuzzleSoftware

A List of projects for .NET that are better than a poke in the eye.

Posted on June 19, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, C#, Programming

I propose “would you rather use this API or have a poke in the eye” as the new selection criteria for 3rd party projects. Here is what passes my poke in the eye test.

TaggedGraphicsprogramming

Spice Rack Plans (Woodworking)

Posted on June 18, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Projects

My Spice Rack plans and effect were quite solid. As people still remark on the unit, I will share the design. DXF included.

Tagged3D-PrintingCADCAMCNCDXFWoodwork

THE BEST PUZZLES #4 – “Hexagon”

Posted on June 17, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

Arrange the numbers 1-19 in the circles, so all the rows of 3 (between orange circles) sum to 22.

TaggedMathsPuzzle

THE BEST PUZZLES #3 – “Match Fix”

Posted on June 16, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

Fix the equation by shifting one match.
There are two solutions. I will leave them for you to find.

TaggedMathsPuzzle

Images that use one of every colour + Free Software to make your own.

Posted on June 16, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, C#, Programming, Software, Uncategorized

Its kinda captivating, an image that uses only one of every colour possible on your computer. It makes for an odd desktop background on a 4K screen.

TaggedGraphicsMathsprogrammingSoftware

THE BEST PUZZLES #2 – “Three Nines”

Posted on June 10, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

I have collected (and made) a lot of cool maths & logic puzzles over the years.
As too many Facebook maths problems today seem uninspired, I have decided to start posting from my collection.

TaggedMathsPuzzle

The Best Puzzles #1 – “The 7-11 Store clerk”

Posted on June 10, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

I have collected (and made) a lot of cool maths & logic puzzles over the years.
As too many Facebook maths problems today seem uninspired, I have decided to start posting from my collection.

TaggedMathsPuzzle

Quick Graphs to make PCB Track Width and Silkscreen Ratios easy.

Posted on March 19, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog, Educational

Recently I had to make a series of circuit boards using Eagle Cad.

I spent a lot of time calculating track widths to make sure my circuit board could handle the current I was using.
Then I had to do more calculations for font ratios. so that that all lines were wide enough to work with the silk screening process.

Sick of this; I quickly used matlab to create a few charts so I could look up the answers quickly.
I thought I would share these charts and the matlab scripts, hope they are useful.

TaggedCADCAMEagle CadElectronicsFontsMatlabPCBSample Code

Are doctors really over-prescribing antibiotics & creating super-bugs that will kill us all?

Posted on March 11, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

“Antibiotics are over prescribed by doctors and that’s creating super-bugs that will kill us all”.
I know many of my friends will hate me for this, but I’m calling bullshit.
Here is the story of how I recently changed my stance on the issue.

TaggedBullshitMedicalmedicineObserving societySkepticism

10 ways to (actually) make university IT assignments more relevant to industry.

Posted on March 10, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

I was asked how I would make assignments more relevant to industry, my response was not what they expected.

TaggedHumorIndustryprogramming

43 email sign-offs, and what they really mean to an Australian.

Posted on March 10, 2015by duckmanCategories:Blog

A list of what people are really saying when they sign of an e-mail.

TaggedBad humore-mailHumorHumourNeuroticismObserving society

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