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Notebook of an easily distracted coder: software, robotics, and experiments.
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Squashed Fly
A small collaborative engineering and robotics hub for Philip and Tamarisk McGaw.
Squashed Fly brings together the work of Philip and Tamarisk McGaw: engineering, software, robotics, and the odd experiment that escapes into the wild.
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Philip’s engineering notebook
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A small collaborative engineering and robotics hub for Philip and Tamarisk McGaw.
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6 recent postsCommon Interface Boards
When I was working for ChargePoint, I designed a set of CIBs (CIB – Common Interface Board) for allowing rapid […] The post Common Interface Boards appeared first on PhilipMcGaw.com.
Read articlePotential Divider Calculator
This calculator performs calculations for potential divider circuits, as well as giving you information about the power and current that […] The post Potential Divider Calculator appeared first on PhilipMcGaw.com.
Pressure Material Choices
Since my IPCC Track Width Calculator, I have been thinking about how to make an online alternative to Under Pressure. […] The post Pressure Material Choices appeared first on PhilipMcGaw.com.
Update: tracking my reading in Obsidian
Having finally managed to find a method of tracking my reading which I am actually willing to maintain I decided to mess with the system by attempting to port it wholesale over to Obsidian Bases. Bases is a new core plugin which provides database style functionality within Obsidian. It is simpler to use than dataview1 and much,…
Fractals in Rust
Rust and Python have a common problem: they both make it really easy to do very complex things in a single step. As a result, this video about rendering the Julia set sent me down a fractal hole. Fractals aren’t something I’ve played with much before, so first I needed to go look at some math. Quadratic Julia sets, it turns…
Aurora spotting in Lapland
We (Skippy and I) are not affiliated with either the Aurora Zone or Wilderness Hotels this trip was paid for with our own money. The Aurora Zone Despite this being a bucket list item the actual decision to go on this trip was spur of the moment so for us the whole booking and decision making process was pretty speedy. The…
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