Author Archives: Justin

Upgrade complete

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Justin

TweetShareThat’s it, the upgrade is finished for now. Seems to be ok but let me know if you spot anything wrong.

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Going dark for a while

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Justin

TweetShare I’m planning an upgrade this weekend so this blog may be unavailable for a while. Don’t worry – it will be back. Whether it has any content afterwards though will remain to be seen.

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The best laid plans…

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Justin

TweetShareGah. My MacBook hard drive failed yesterday. That’s going to put a dent in my plans for the Elite: Dangerous system build for a while. Not to worry, it will live. Eventually! J.  

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View from…

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Justin

TweetShareThe Shard It was a bit dumb of me to pile a load of quite large photos on to the blog home page in the form of a post, so I’ve moved this content over to its own page which … Continue reading →

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Death Inc. This game deserves to be made!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Justin

TweetShare#SaveOurSouls   Download the DEMO   Some of the super-smart folks behind the likes of LittleBigPlanet, the Fable franchise, Burnout and Need For Speed have teamed up to Kickstart a brand new, comical and very stylish-looking game. At the time of … Continue reading →

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This is my jam

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Justin

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What are Saturday afternoons for? Calibrating your Printrbot Jr. obviously

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Justin

TweetShareAfter many (many, many) trial-and-error attempts at printing the 5mm calibration cube step model from thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24238), it looks like there really are some settings that are getting close to the ideal for the Printrbot Jr. I owe a huge … Continue reading →

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Oh my God, we’ve killed the high street!

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Justin

TweetShareThe great Internet shopping migration The high street is looking very different these days. The stores I’ve grown up with, or got used to seeing on practically every high street or in any given shopping centre are disappearing at an … Continue reading →

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It’s an ethical pickle and no mistake…

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Justin

TweetShareHmmm. Not sure what to make of this. Designing and virtually testing a tank design against other open source contributors sounds fun, but if it ends up becoming a real thing… :-/ Wired: Darpa open sources code for building amphibious … Continue reading →

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Elite: Dangerous

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Justin

TweetShareBack it and make it possible. That is all. UPDATE: It’s official – the funding target has been met. Elite: Dangerous is GO!

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