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Escher’s Burr oplossen
Ik volg een opleiding tot meubelmaker op het HMC Next. Afgelopen donderdag kwam er iemand, laten we hem [de Boswachter] noemen, naar onze klas met de vraag “Wie kan deze puzzel oplossen?”. De puzzel bestaat uit 6 houten stukken die in elkaar geschoven moeten worden. Meerdere mensen hadden er uren aan gepuzzeld en konden geen …
GR 412: Tips & tricks
Wat nam ik mee: Basics: Kleding Eten/Drinken Electronica Overig What have I brought along: Basics: Clothing Food/Drink Electronics Other
Home entertainment rebuild (1)
I used to have a “home entertainment system” to play music (MP3), radio (web streams) and movies (via a beamer). The music/radio portion ran on a raspberry pi 1, the movies I played from a Lenovo desktop.However, all parts were om the edge of their usable lifetime or already broken. Old setup My old setup …
Key organizer from old shoes
I made key hangers from old hiking boots
A pouch for my passport
How I seam a pouch for my passport
Making a NAS out of my Raspberry Pi 4
I used to have a Raspberry Pi B (model 1) act as my NAS.The PI (or probably it’s memory card) died on me, and I’ve always been appalled by it’s slow, slow data throughput, so I ordered a new Raspberry Pi 3B+. Literally two days after it ordered, the Pi 4B+ was announced. So I …
Downloading tile maps
I love the website Cartesius, which has a trove of old topographic maps of Belgium.One of the maps that I consult the most is a stitch of all topographic maps of Belgium of 1969, zoomable and pannable like openstreetmaps. However, lately, the site has been acting strangely. The front portal continuously reloads, so it is …
My railway edits on Openstreetmap
A list of all things railway-related I put on openstreetmap (since october 2021)
Reasons for the housing shortage in the Netherlands
Sadly, there is not one single reason for the housing crisis in the Netherlands, or we could — with effort — fix that problem. There are reasons that have been building since the 1980’s. In a recent discussion I came up with the following reasons for the housing crisis that each for themselves would not …
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