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The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures in Midair.
“Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time. Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, watch the video above to see the thing in action. The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks who recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the miraculous little devices that utilizes a special plastic which is heated and instantly cooled to form solid structures as you draw. I don’t know about you but for me this might have just won the most impulsive Kickstarter purchase in history. Check it out.”
This thing looks amazing.
(Source: iraffiruse)
I put this at the end of my first assignment for Computer Security and Ethics (which is due on Valentine’s Day tomorrow). I hope he likes it!
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(Source: shawarma-palace, via thedistanceinsidious)
It may not look like much yet, but this is Eyereen, the conqueror and main heroine in Eyeroni!
Eyeroni (Pronounced Irony) is a game about an eyeball who must find her missing love, Eyeroni! This is a project I have been working on with my girlfriend since November, but recently began to become something more tangible and possible thanks to my ditching of DarkBASIC and picking up of C# and XNA 4.0
Thanks to object-oriented programming, my life has gone from “AHHHHHHHH!” to “Ahh, so that’s how it works!”
Look for more updates in the future, especially once playable demos start being made available! ;)
Launch This Year
Thinking of Building an App? I just stumbled across a website called Launch This Year which teaches you to do just that. The website doesn’t teach you how to code, but it does help you on your planning and execution process for your app.
Right now, the site is invite-only, but if you click this link right here, you and I can each get $10 worth of special features on the site. If you’re going to sign up anyway, you might as well get something out of it (and help me out too :P)!
If you hate helping people, then simply going to launchthisyear.com will send you to the invite page.
Alternatively, you can also enter “lifehacker” as an invite code when signing up to get access immediately, courtesy of lifehacker. That code is only good for the first 3,000 people to sign up with the code, so don’t be surprised if it isn’t working soon!
Screenshot from the Website
Launch This Year has helpful steps that make you answer questions to help you get on your way to launching that app you always wanted to make, but always had trouble executing (even though you know you can do it). The site updates each week with new things for you to keep in mind and set up to make your app launch this year (or sooner, if you want)! No, this isn’t a sponsored post, just though I’d share a useful website with you all!
I accidentally figured it out when I was playing around with what I had done so far.
This is NOT the AI doing the moves itself, but now I know some patterns to look for!
The Peg Game AI is coming along nicely!
That being said, the AI doesn’t actually do much yet. As of now, it can determine which pegs can move, where they can move, and how many possible moves each peg (and all pegs) can make.
I’m doing this project mainly because I want to find the best possible combination of moves for every initial setup of the peg board. If anybody wants to thumb through my code, feel free to PM me and I’ll send you a link (it’s in C#). I keep my code very well commented and try to keep it as brute-force-less as possible (although a lot of things are brute-forced :P).
I made a peg game today in C#. Soon, I’ll start to work on some AI that finds the best possible combination to leave just one peg.
The real-life peg board says that if you leave just one peg, you’re a genius. What will I be if I create a genius, a genius’s father? I’ll settle for that…
Update on Learning Ruby
“I’d be intrigued to know what you’re using to learn the language. Have you got a project in mind that you’re using ruby for, or are you just toying with it?” - cjbrowne
A couple semesters ago, a course in my university was learning ruby on rails. I was in the book store and saw this book (and had some left-over school debit), so I picked it up, even though I wasn’t in the course.
Since then, I haven’t really looked through it much, but I’m starting to now. The book isn’t terrible, but isn’t especially amazing in any way either. The book isn’t about ruby on rails, just plain ol’ ruby, but I just wanted to get some syntax down before learning rails.
I’ve used some sites that are very helpful with rails such as Rails for Zombies. It uses video tutorials and, although I’m not very keen on video tutorials for coding (since I like to study and re-read things 100 times before, while, and after I write code for the first time), it’s filled with some very useful information.
Right now, I don’t really have a project in mind and I’m just toying with ruby, but eventually I’d like to create something useful using the language (or rails).
I’m learning Ruby!
Oh look, my logic compiler is working!
Anyone wanna try to break it? It’s in C# if anyone wants to give it a shot. Still working on a couple tiny bugs, and I like getting things bullet proof.
Also, I REEEAAALLLLY don’t wanna work on my C- compiler that’s due tomorrow!
