Adrian McEwen @amcewen@mastodon.me.uk
Founder of @MCQN_Ltd. Creator of @Bubblino. Co-founder of @DoESLiverpool. Author @aBookOfThings. Ex-CTO of @GNLteam. Ramblings on #IoT, urbanism and Liverpool
Joined Apr 2017
This week's #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 809 - Printing and Plotting http://dlvr.it/Rx9PSc
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Can someone recommend a GDPR Subject Access Request template, preferably in LaTeX? Also how do I ask my data to be deleted?
I never sent one and want to try out at a provider which does not seem to offer an option for account deletion...
Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Making Art Work by W. Patrick McCray http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_making_art_work_by_w_patrick_mccray.html
Pen plotting; LED VU-meters; and shipping out product. This week's #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 808 - Shipping Product http://dlvr.it/RwkbRD
The Totaliser is slowly taking shape, as is the teleprinter. The latest #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 807 - Arrested Development http://dlvr.it/RwGtWp
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I assumed that if GPT-3 generated pickup lines, they would be terrible because they would be something like human pickup lines. Instead, they are terrible for more delightful reasons.
https://janellecshane.substack.com/p/gpt-3-tries-pickup-lines?r=1lic4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
Liverpool Council are looking to see how they can improve #cycling in the city, so I wrote up some of my ideas (not just applicable to Liverpool) http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/liverpool/some_suggestions_for_cycling_in_liverpool.html
Reading https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/one-year-in-the-indieweb (found via @KevinMarks) and thinking about how the talk of #IndieWeb being more of a social movement echoes my pondering on the #makermovement http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/thinking/is_the_maker_movement_a_movement.html. How they're both a bit messy, but tending towards action. Maybe the movement I really want is #RC2 - a random coining of "Rough Consensus; Running Code" (from the David Clark quote https://www2.cs.duke.edu/courses/common/compsci092/papers/govern/consensus.pdf). There's room for difference & imperfection, but we try to work together and deeds > words
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I just downloaded Feminist City from @VersoBooks@twitter.com, which they’ve made free to download until March 23rd (in light of recent events in the UK): https://www.versobooks.com/books/3227-feminist-city
Signs of life from the #teleprinter! In part 3 of our ongoing series Paul and I got to where we can hand-crank the transmitter and have it send the right codes! #weeknotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiYFeWBYkHs
Soldering, putting the LED boards back on sale, and chatting about measuring the environmental impact of electronics; the latest #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 806 - The Shop is Restocked! http://dlvr.it/RvgrPM
Following a session of soldering on Friday, the new, improved My Baby's Got LED boards are back in stock in the #MCQN_Ltd
Tindie
store https://tindie.com/products/mcqn_ltd/my-babys-got-led/ Here's a #timelapse of the board production!
@Snoof having looked at #physics, I found this fantastic video. Do you think Chris could recreate this with a bike pump? I can lend him my track pump if that helps... 🤣 https://mstdn.io/@sohkamyung/105309326033456891
The messy middle of prototyping, and more. This week's #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 805 - Total Chaos https://dlvr.it/RvDR6j
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Tim Hunkin is starting a 'secret life of components' series; for those who don't know him, he's a nicely crazy artist/mech hacker who does weird automaton/games, and has presented a series on 'the life of machines' (mostly home white goods) many years ago. Recommended.
Paul, Jen and I did some more work on tidying up the #teleprinter on Saturday, so there's a new video diary now out - focusing mostly on the transmitter unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsEFrzrA3Y8
Testing; talking to customers; and releasing a fixed PCB to production (RTP! I've not used that phrase since I was at Microsoft in the early 2000s!). The latest #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 804 - New My Baby's Got LED Boards Off to Production https://dlvr.it/Rtjxn5
Got the high-current capability reworked and improved for the My Baby's Got LED board. New design all worked up in #Kicad and a batch ordered, so there should be fresh boards ready to buy mid-March. Waitlist at https://www.tindie.com/products/mcqn_ltd/my-babys-got-led/ #weeknotes #ibal223
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Getting excited for #igniteliv tonight. I will be pressing buttons behind the scenes, it's more difficult than it sounds honest. You can watch us live at 7pm via http://YouTube.com/Igniteliverpool It's gonna be fun :)
It wasn't really a /hard/ decision, but it wasn't a fun one. The latest #MCQN_Ltd #weeknotes: Week 803 - Releasing Videos and (Temporarily) Pulling Products http://dlvr.it/RtDyVT
Founder of @MCQN_Ltd. Creator of @Bubblino. Co-founder of @DoESLiverpool. Author @aBookOfThings. Ex-CTO of @GNLteam. Ramblings on #IoT, urbanism and Liverpool
Joined Apr 2017
