- What it's like to own an Apple product -
- "Ball of Light" light graffiti -
- RedBlueCNC: A modular CNC -
- DSLR pinhole lens -
- laser-etched brain model -
- Lego NXT R/C boat -
- Embracing decay at Sid's Machine Shop -
- Bees in the Bell Jar -
- $147.50 - 7" Touch Screen TFT LCD Google Android 1.5 Tablet PC w/ WiFi/Camera (ARM926EH-S rev5) -
- Truetype Tracer 4.0 is released -
- Brian Cox: Why we need the explorers - Brian Cox (2010) -
- Making liquid nitrogen at home -
- Inexpensive 3 axis mill… -
- BeagleBoard Gives New Power to Open Source Gadgets… -
Month: June 2010
Forssa half-marathon
I was a bit too far back in the start, and had to criss-cross among slower starters for at least the first 3 km. A strong side/aft wind made the first few kilometers easy downwind 'sailing', and luckily the route took a more protected less windy road after the turn at 10 km. After around 13km when it was windy again, now a side/head-wind, I slipstreamed in tour-de-france-style in the wake of a group of runners to avoid the worst wind. This course is very flat and fast, and I caught up with the 2-hour pace-runners(dressed in black tuxedos!) somewhere between 19 and 20 km.
Results and info: http://www.suvi-ilta.fi
While driving home through Perniö I saw some serious long distance runners taking part in a 100 km race. These people do 20 laps on a 5 km course, some in under 8 hours...
Links - 2010 Jun 10
- How to run further – Increase you running distance with the following tips -
- iPhone Hacked to Run Android 2.2 -
- Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight -
- Yosemite Nature Notes - Episode 9 - Frazil Ice -
- NASA Captures First Photos of Massive 'Arm' of Oil Slick (Hundreds of Miles Long) -
- Sculptris v1.0 - looks like a seriously cool 3d freeform designer!
- Which Bits Of London Get Photographed The Most? -
- Konrad Delong: 5 things you can do with a Python list in one line -
- GCC begins move to C++ -
- Walking On Water -
- Video: Diet Coke and Mentos-powered car is a blast -
- 30 Unique Logo Designs That Actually Say Something -
- Shanghai: 1990 vs. 2010 -
- Venture Capitalists Lobby Against Software Patents -
- 05 June 2010 – Some More Panel shots - PyVCP has progressed very nicely from its humble beginnings in January 2007 to where it's fairly mainstream and a lot of EMC'ers are doing new things with it. See: http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/01/extending-axis-with-pyvcp/
- Drawbot produces portraits… very slowly -
- $156.70 - GH-625M 1.5" LCD Sports Training Waterproof Wrist Watch GPS with Heart Rate Monitor - I wonder if all these chinese "Garmins", "iPads" and N8 or Android phones can be trusted...
- Mock 1 -
- Clarifying my thoughts re: Facebook and Twitter -
- Nexus One gets USB host driver from a dude with an oscilloscope (video) -
Wednesday Ten
4x1k @ ~5:00/km
This is certainly a very different way of running an 11k at an average pace of 6:28/km. All the training programs for half or full marathons recommend some form of intervals. Recommended distances range anywhere between 400 m to 1 mile (1600 m) with a few minutes of walking or easy jogging between repeats.
I'm not sure how/if the garmin 405cx can be set up for interval training, so I just did 1k of walking/jogging between my "fast" 1k's at ~5:00/km. Those slow resting km's took over 7 min, which is probably a little too much rest between repeats.
There are a lot of 4 hour-target-time marathon training programs out there. Finnish running-site "seppola" has these 1k at 5:00 pace intervals. I think Kuehls book talks about up to sixteen 400m repeats at 5:00 pace, while Galloway's program has 4-8x 1 mile repeats at 5:20 pace and Janne Holmen's program (see also here) has fewer long 3-4k repeats at 5:18/km or so.
There's a race in Forssa on Saturday(which I haven't signed up for...yet)
Winch drum machining video
99mm diameter winch drum for arm-winch type sheeting with powerful (e.g. HiTec) digital servos. CNC-machined in aluminium. four M3 threaded holes, weight 21 grams, price 30 euro/pcs.
Friday 20k
PIKANTO nr 3 completed
Jari has added fittings, radio-installation, bulb, and foils to PIKANTO hull nr 3. Note the aluminium cnc-machined winch-drum for the HiTec winch-servo.
While we have developed a good looking cnc-machined steel finmould, ruddermoulds, a bumper mould, etc. we are still not producing hulls in any larger numbers for sale due to various reasons. Stay tuned.
Links - 2010 Jun 3
40 Mbps broadband
Probably triggered by Sonera laying down optical fiber and offering 10 Mbps for 10eur/month initially (a 24 month contract, rising to 20eur/month for the second year) the local cable-TV company Welho was forced to rethink their products and pricing. I've upgraded to the M-option which is 40 Mbps for around 36eur/month.
At some point Finland was pretty cheap when it came to broadband and cell-phone contracts. Anyone want to comment how these speeds/prices compare to other parts of the world?