What Are Your Side Projects?
-
I like to make tools and utilities to automate manual tasks. That means spending a month creating a tool that can do a manual job that takes 2 minutes once a month. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I hate command line stuff, so I build UIs around those to be able to use my favourite rodent. And I get really annoyed by UIs that are sloppy. (outlining slightly off by 1 pixel :doh: ) So I try to build them again, but better.....
-
I wouldn't be surprised if a first-time home brewer who want to do everything right, getting all the right equipment in place for his first brew, would end up with that price per bottle. For his next brew, the price would drop to not much above half of that. For his third brew, probably below $10 a bottle. For his 50th, only slightly above the price of the consumable raw materials. Depending on how he obtains them, the quality, and how much processed they are (grain? syrup?) I wouldn't be surprised if he gets down to $1-2 a bottle.
True. Basic 1 gallon beer making kit, including ingredients, jug, tubing, etc, is about $50. Makes 9-10 bottles (12 oz) depending on spillage. After that, the "recipes" ran about $16. This from first outfit I purchased from. The original kit was a present so, "free". The last 18 gallons were from an outfit in Canada, each recipe makes 23 liters. I make 1 gallon at a time, so conversions are required. I brew like I programed: "Oh, about this much". The last batch usually comes up short. The yeast is a problem so I play government: I throw money at it, buying individual 1 gallon mix packets. SWMBO lays an eyeball on the hops and divides them into 6 portions (23 liters is "about" 6 gallons, 6.07). I like this outfit because the wort comes in a liquid which avoids the boiling process. It is the consistency of molasses. I use purified water, from reverse osmosis process ($1.20 a gallon). Please don't tell me they fill the jugs from the men's room. So far, I have not purchased many recipes, mostly presents from relatives to keep me from bothering them. I have purchased bottles, caps, Capper, and hydrometer. So, my cost per bottle (so far) is actually negligible. My beer runs about 6% alcohol and a gallon lasts a month or so depending on friends and relatives to help with consumption. I am not much of a "drinker" and the wife doesn't like beer (hooray). I have one friend who comes over about once a week and we have 1 beer, sitting on my patio, solving most of the world's problems. We are veterans and regale each other with war stories. Difference between war stories and fairy tales: Fairy tale: "once upon a time..." War Story: "this ain't no stuff"... :)
>64 There is never enough time to do it right, but there is enough time to do it over.
-
I like to make tools and utilities to automate manual tasks. That means spending a month creating a tool that can do a manual job that takes 2 minutes once a month. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I hate command line stuff, so I build UIs around those to be able to use my favourite rodent. And I get really annoyed by UIs that are sloppy. (outlining slightly off by 1 pixel :doh: ) So I try to build them again, but better.....
Quote:
I hate command line stuff
Easy, peasy. I have a macro pad. Use it for VM passwords, most of the stuff I input to command line (Linux). About $50.
>64 There is never enough time to do it right, but there is enough time to do it over.
-
I used to do some coding on personal projects, but lost interest in messing with any significant coding outside of work. Currently my main hobby is winemaking -- I have nearly 100 gallons in production, which will be bottled between May and November of next year. The fall grapes arrive in late September and October, so the cycle will start again.
-
Follow link and in menu on left click on Projects. Sewing Cabinet
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness". PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
Wow. Very, very nice Mike.
Software Zen:
delete this; -
Wow. Very, very nice Mike.
Software Zen:
delete this;Thanks Gary. She likes it but the finish I put on it takes 30 days to cure so she won't get it in time for xmas.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness". PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.0 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: SimpleWizardUpdate
-
Contributing to Stride, C# game engine (MIT). GitHub - stride3d/stride: Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)[^]
-
Recreating the Battlefield of Gettysburg. With blocks.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
My dad's side of the family is from Gettysburg. Definitely not the same town it was when I was a kid. Much more crowded with general commerce that you see in any town and less touristy.
-
Organizing family photos. Scanned over 11,000 photos since June of this year. Many front and back. Wrote a program to join the two sides into a single image. Uploaded all to GCP this weekend for its OCR and have JSON files with text. Working this week on a program to parse and organize the text to create an index of who is in the photos. Then putting on USB sticks and delivering to family in 6 days..... Then I can relax next year :)
Hogan
-
1. An Android lottery winning prediction program, since I noticed the numbers are not entirely random. 2. A human language learning app, transforming existing text into a modulated learning sequence of words and phrases. 3. A little Teddy Bear that walks and talks as in iRobot, since my son asked to make one 20 years ago. 4. A collapsible, folding piano keyboard that feels and sounds like a grand piano and fits in a briefcase. 5. Answering questions like this one.
-
- I teach horsemanship and retrain problem horses. I ride my own horses(10) 4-5 days/week. 2) I farm 200 acres, growing primarily hay for cattle...and horses of course. 3) Playing with Linux development --- currently writing (more like re-writing over and over) a programming language. 4) Sometimes I sleep.
-
In the summer months I make wood working projects that I sell at the local Independent Pharmacy The profit is donated to Meals on Wheels 50 years ago a friend who owned a pharmacy gave me this display box when all the soap sold Buy the Vintage 1971 Village Bath Handmade Soap Box Wood Advertising Display | GoodwillFinds[^] These were batch produced but very exact so I decided to make my own out of Half Inch Baltic Birch Plywood no glue just screws. they are stained various shades and 5 coats of my home made wipe on oil based Polyurathane Price is $30.00 to $50.00 based on the wood used and workmanship. As of now after 5 builds I can work to a tolerance of 1/32nd of an inch My other product was to copy this box design with no screws and just glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-KtUUtRvY Built a few workbenches but where I live everyone is a DIY'er so sales not so good plus they are massive 60 in by 36 in and 36 in tall with twin screw tail vise made with 10 year old red oak 30 in wide jaws. They tip the scale at 250 lb
-
pondering the mysteries of Christmas .
-
Writing a program to calculate fractals rigorously (i.e. being certain that a point is inside, outside, or "unknown" as yet) Writing a full implementation of the IEEE 754-2019 Floating-Point Standard, with the intention of expanding it to higher-precision types Learning all the Physics that I missed out on by becoming a software engineer Converting the WINFRACT (FRACTINT for Windows) program to run on Win32 or Win64
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
may i inquire which Physics topics / authors you are studying assuming of course you have time for such whilst writing great code .
-
may i inquire which Physics topics / authors you are studying assuming of course you have time for such whilst writing great code .
I've always wanted to actually understand General Relativity. The undergraduate degree that I did in Physics only covered Special Relativity. I've been going back to the original papers - Einstein, Minkowski, etc. for the physics, and studying Tensor Analysis from a few different books (M.L. Boas - general math, A. Lichnerowicz - Tensor Calculus, ...). At the rate I'm going, it will probably take me a few years to thoroughly understand the subject, but I'm in no hurry... :) Ditto for everything else. These are hobbies, so I have no deadlines.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
-
I've always wanted to actually understand General Relativity. The undergraduate degree that I did in Physics only covered Special Relativity. I've been going back to the original papers - Einstein, Minkowski, etc. for the physics, and studying Tensor Analysis from a few different books (M.L. Boas - general math, A. Lichnerowicz - Tensor Calculus, ...). At the rate I'm going, it will probably take me a few years to thoroughly understand the subject, but I'm in no hurry... :) Ditto for everything else. These are hobbies, so I have no deadlines.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
do you have a copy of Gravitation (book) - Wikipedia[^] i use mine as a door stop as i have yet to finish Classical Mechanics (Goldstein) - Wikipedia[^] . it required several readings with an overly lengthy interruption in order to begin to understand virtual displacements as utilized in deducing LaGrange's equations . i have to read it again to consider if my understanding is correct . re/ tensors i viewed a few years ago a superb YouTube series on the subject . unfortunately i no longer have the link . also do you have a copy of "Spacetime Physics", Second Edition by Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler . i also have a oopy of Einsein's GR paper . i did not find it helpful . the references to Mach and his ideas i have yet to understand . i wish you great success in this fine pursuit .
-
do you have a copy of Gravitation (book) - Wikipedia[^] i use mine as a door stop as i have yet to finish Classical Mechanics (Goldstein) - Wikipedia[^] . it required several readings with an overly lengthy interruption in order to begin to understand virtual displacements as utilized in deducing LaGrange's equations . i have to read it again to consider if my understanding is correct . re/ tensors i viewed a few years ago a superb YouTube series on the subject . unfortunately i no longer have the link . also do you have a copy of "Spacetime Physics", Second Edition by Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler . i also have a oopy of Einsein's GR paper . i did not find it helpful . the references to Mach and his ideas i have yet to understand . i wish you great success in this fine pursuit .
I have a copy of Gravitation, but not the other books. I have a copy of Einstein's GR paper, and am trying to collect the papers that Einstein referenced (and in some cases - the papers that they referenced). The problem is that many of them are available only in German - and I don't read German.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
-
I have a copy of Gravitation, but not the other books. I have a copy of Einstein's GR paper, and am trying to collect the papers that Einstein referenced (and in some cases - the papers that they referenced). The problem is that many of them are available only in German - and I don't read German.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
of course it may be useful to steady the original papers . however it seems to me you are eschewing the modern texts . if so i do not understand why . don't forget papers published in scientific journals are terse and not meant to be edumakational exempli gratia Einstein's original GR paper to now a 1,000+ page tome by Wheeler et al . also i am a believer in multiple authors / texts . by the way my undergrad physics instructor was kind enough to give to me the gift of a Xerox "orignal" copy of Michelson's "SPEED OF LIGHT" notebook complete w/ tea cup stains and his fine penmanship .
-
of course it may be useful to steady the original papers . however it seems to me you are eschewing the modern texts . if so i do not understand why . don't forget papers published in scientific journals are terse and not meant to be edumakational exempli gratia Einstein's original GR paper to now a 1,000+ page tome by Wheeler et al . also i am a believer in multiple authors / texts . by the way my undergrad physics instructor was kind enough to give to me the gift of a Xerox "orignal" copy of Michelson's "SPEED OF LIGHT" notebook complete w/ tea cup stains and his fine penmanship .
I didn't say that I intend to neglect modern treatments of the subject. I just want to start from the original papers, and take it from there. I know, for example, that in order to understand GR I must review Tensor Analysis, study Differential Geometry, etc. before even trying to tackle Einstein's papers, to say nothing of later texts.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.