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 …

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 …

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 …

Scanning keys

Now that I deciphered where everything goes and how everything works, it was time to make sure I build a foundation to make the I/O a little more usable, instead of fetching raw data. Fist stop: make the input buttons accessible. Working with keypresses is actually not as simple as I intuitively thought. If you …