#i also thought about a cnc machine for a second

[ekke-ekke-ptangya-zooom-boing-ni]

I give you an amount of money to buy one piece of hardware you'd love to have. What are you buying?

ooooooh i would probably get a good camera, like, one of those big chunky ones with a thousand buttons that can shoot high-resolution pictures in .raw format... also decent pictures at night...

and a good shoulder bag to bring it with me on walks, of course

[bard-owl]

I think everyone has heard the term “supply chain crisis” at this point. Manufacturing centers were first hit in late 2019 and most to the global lockdowns were in effect by the second quarter of 2020. It is now third quarter of 2022 and we are into year three of this “interruption”, it is time to discard this outdated and frankly wrong from the start system of manufacturing and distribution. Americans in particular were already caught in a state of duality in which much of the public laments that nothing is made domestically, while also discarding anything made by local shops as “overpriced hipster gear”. I have previously stated that for true domestic production to return to America there would need to be enough demand for the products to cause more competition and drive the prices down as domestic supply increased.

That is the current situation as I see it, so now what do we do about it? In the last decade one particular technology has taken off, once a novelty and hyper expensive tool for industrial prototyping, 3D printers have become affordable, commonplace, and surprisingly capable. While still used by many to produce novelty items and in industrial roles, this technology is akin to the movable-type printing press of the mid-1400s in that it represents an upset to the established order if utilized effectively. Now before this is dismissed I am aware of the limitations of what can be printed at home. More exotic and expensive versions are used to produce high strength items. But this is where it gets interesting, because it isn’t about everyone having a printer. It’s about everyone using home printers to get a head start on skills, hobbies, and trades they couldn’t afford to break into otherwise and then using those skills to work with each other.

Lathes or milling machines are both often said to be machines that make machines. 3D printers should be included in that list. Now there is nothing made on this machine that can’t be done with other tools and methods, but few that allow the low cost of entry and ease within a home settings. Open source software and thousands of free files allow anyone and everyone to make tons of tools, dies, forms, jigs, stencils, etc. as needed. I've seen sheet steel stamped on dies made from common PLA on a cheap press from Harbor Freight, or even just stuck with hammers. My cousin makes brackets for electronics with an entry level printer while his wife makes custom cookie cutters for various events on the same machine.

And that’s the thing about this, the broad range of applications combined with people’s varied and personal interests. With the addition of a chop saw and drill for extruded or tubular metal you can make strong supports for printed pieces to form a much larger machine. If you can make a drill press or milling machine, you can make a lathe, manually operated or CNC. I’ve seen people make large format CNC router tables that can quickly and efficiently cut and trim an entire sheet of plywood for assembly. If within a community most people have the ability to make their own simple plastic or resin tools and utensils, while someone has a garage metal shop, another a carpentry shop, a couple down the road a leather shop and sewing studio, someone else a pottery studio, even a small foundry for smelting and casting, you would have a far more self-reliant community than anything seen in a hundred years in much of the western world.

I was originally going to link a bunch of videos showing the possibilities and I still might add some later on about specific applications. But I really want everyone to give this some serious thought on their own. Is there a hobby or trade you are interested in but you’re concerned about the investment? Look at what the essential components are. Can the more complex ones be found used? The cheaper ones made at home? We, as in all of us, are in a massive web of unsustainable distribution and centralized manufacturing. I don’t believe the key is to change where that center is, but to replace it with local and regional decentralized networks of skilled individuals whom own their own tools and shops.

[forgottenyear]

Our current project is going well. There is nothing to show for the effort yet, however, since we are still in the puzzle-solving stage. That is why it is going so well. (The end result is good, but the puzzles are the primary motivation.)

Of course, if one projects is good, two projects is better.  On the way to the end-project, we need to complete an intermediary project.

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Caution: this is the part where eyes tend to glaze over. I do try to tone it down for most people, but if you show a little interest or understanding, I may enthusiastically launch into long and detailed technical discussions.

The main project is a bench to sit beside a heat sealer I use regularly in the kitchen, and the benchtop will have ruler markings and a moveable guide. What I need is about a foot square, but my little CNC router can only work on half of that at a time (it is modular, so with the parts I could scale the machine up, but beside being the easy way out, I cannot afford to do that just yet – I am lucky to have what I do have) (also, the material for making these things was pried from a packing crate and has markings stenciled to one side).

The router also needs a spoil board (to protect the router bits from the aluminum bed, and vice versa), so I am overengineering one that will keep the two halves of the main project’s benchtop registered as I turn it about on the machine. Of course, I am also including ruler markings on the spoil board.

By overengineering the spoil board (“boards,” the first was flawed and mostly only useful for making the second), I eliminate unfeasible puzzle solutions before the main project – making my mistakes on a piece that is intended to be spoiled eventually anyway, so the main project will be better refined.

When I have finished, I will have used the CNC machine with the router and the laser (for the ruler markings) and the 3D printer.

Years ago, I taught myself 3D graphics design (interesting puzzles). At the time, I thought I would probably have no use for the knowledge, other than to make virtual things that look good on the computer. I did not think that I would use that knowledge to make necessary (at least, arguably so) real world items.

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Okay. I am done gushing about our projects.

There are no thoughts beyond the projects, at the moment.

[iblowshitup120]

Thanks @uncle-jingo

Alrighty.......This is gunna get interesting.

5 Positive Things I like about myself (Mostly Things ive overcome)

1. I am such a different ever since recovering from Brain Cancer. I am happy, I can focus, and I am basically going through puberty a second time so its awesome.

2. Things are finally good with my ex wife so I can see my son more often now. For all the horrible things she did to me, I find myself wanting to help her get through whatever shes going through (Also an army vet) and I never thought id want to help someone who did such horrible things to me. Its humbling. Its Love.

3. Im finally comfortable in my own skin, growing up I was bullied non-stop for being an ugly little black/hispanic mudblood until about sophomore year of highschool. It had lasting effects of course until I was an adult and recently I realized I dont need to sleep with every woman who gives me attention, like I have been since turning 16 because the only person who will make me feel better about myself is me and God.

4. I can litteraly do anything I set my mind to. I set up a firearms business in less than 4 months with no help, and yet I never went to college because I cant stand the idea of disorganized beuracratic power structure in an educational environment(I was in alternative school for bad kids all the years of highschool). I am in the process of designing a new shotgun and the only thing holding me back is learning fusion360, which I am picking up pretty quickly. I bought a milling machine a year ago and got pretty good with it really fast and am about to convert it to a cnc machine. Im just sorta handy like that.

5. I feel like I have an excellent relationship with God who has gotten me to this point. God is so many things but Im not going to tell you because I would want you to find out yourself. Growing up I went to Private Christian school for 12 years and the Dogma I experienced turned me into an atheist for 12 years. When I was about 24 I witnessed evil taking place in the church of the parents of the girl I was dating. Very Conspiracy Theory type shit. If God was gunna let me know of his existence in a way I can understand, it was through that. I had to see the devil in order to realize Jesus is King. Through him I got through brain cancer treatment, prescription pain killer addiction, and my next challenge is becoming a nicer person when you are chronically in severe pain all the fricken time. But since I invited God back into my life, my life has become alot more manageable and Ive done things I havnt ever has the confidence of doing. If I can just work on not cussing and not being so hateful to people who do small things to me, I think I can learn something new about myself.

@masonicbeheadingritual @milfsagainstroadhead @unclefather @unoshallbeplayedbywe @armsnotsigns @ancaporado @librapngs

Yall are about the only other people I interact with that havnt done this.

[jayne-hecate-writer]

The Dark Side Rises...

I love to watch cosplayers on Youtube, where such luminaries as Adam Savage are inspirational but can provoke the dark side with envy of his access to a machine shop, original props for photos and friends in the movie business.

Let's face it, Adam Savage is the Holy Grail of replica prop building, and he does inspire with the fullness of his heart that other makers follow their hearts and build too. That leads other people into getting their hands dirty and in time they too become leaders in their fields as they show the skills they are developing and designs they have for fabulous replica props from our favourite movie universes. One of the best of these is one I have mentioned before and that is Dan of Buckethead Props, whose gentle fun videos are always inspirational and still show that we can make this stuff at home, with out needing access to a five axis CNC lathe! This is not to say that his stuff is poor quality, if anything the exact opposite is true, his stuff is brilliant and well beyond what I can produce, but he does inspire still.

Recently, Buckethead Props reached a milestone in Youtube subscribers and to celebrate this, they have set up a Lightsabre build challenge and for once, I have decided to give it a go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50gt9TTz3w

The rules are very simple, do what ever you like, but you have a budget of only £20. This was something that I thought about at first and then rejected, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to take part in it. A quick comment on his video saw Dan reply with a bit of gentle encouragement to his viewers and I set about designing my sabre.

There are some things I want in a sabre and obviously it has to be Dark Side, which means a red Crystal and red Blade. However, I am also a Rebels fan, so I want a sabre that will fit into their world. That leaves me the sabre of the Inquisitors, of Maul or even Vader himself, but none of them appeal, so I got thinking...

“What would have happened if Ezra had turned to the Dark Side and gone with Maul on Malachor?”

To go down this path, Ezra would have turned his back on Kanan and after Maul had blinded him it is likely that Ezra may have even killed his old master, taking his sabre. Becoming Maul's apprentice in the Darkside, it is possible that they would have followed the rules of the Sith as set out by Darth Bane and eventually when Maul had taught him as much as he could, Ezra would have murdered Maul too.

I call this sabre the Dark Ezra...

As a disabled person, money is tight and the budget of £20 was a big bite out of my monthly spending, especially given that this was effectively to be spent on something that may not even work. So I set about finding as many recyclable materials as possible and with some bits already in stock, I only had six things to purchase for it. The first item I bought was a cheap LED torch for £1.99 and a set of cheap and very low quality bicycle lights from The Range for £3.99. I wanted to fit a sound module for a light sabre and found a cheap child's toy on Amazon for £4.99. I purchased a steel bolt for a few pence from our local engineers suppliers. I also purchased a solar powered garden light for under a pound. The last (or rather the first, although I did not know it at the time) thing  was a toy pistol from Poundland, however I bought this for a costume about five years ago and I have no idea if these are still available and this was used for the sound board again.

My first task was to set about the wiring, taking the lights apart and dismantling the toy sabre too, before I attacked them with my soldering iron. Which resulted in my first major mistake when attaching batteries to the sword sound module and turned the main chip to ash. That was £4.99 wasted and left me feeling annoyed with myself, for attaching the leads the wrong way around. This was despite photographing the board so that I could see the wiring.

Putting the wiring to the side for a while, I set about constructing the chassis of the sabre and it was here that I really wanted a blaster built into the hilt, just like Ezra's first sabre. I had some old wood in the scrap pile, purchased months and years before to build a cage for our pet owl... More on her later. The scraps of wood were from the cheapest wood we could use to build the cage, unfinished beams for holding up plasterboard, cheap off cuts and recycled bits from the shed. This left me with two small offcuts, a piece of 30x75mm and a piece of 30x30mm. Using chisels and a craft knife, I took the corners off of the 30x30 for the handle, turning it into a lovely octagonal shape that fitted beautifully into my hand. I also hollowed out the other piece of wood to allow for the fitting of a crystal and the electronics.

It has been many years since I last used woodworking tools and I now bare the scars of trying to use such fine tools, with hands damaged by arthritis caused by years of extreme sport. What would have taken an accomplished woodworker no more than an hour or so, took me three fabulously enjoyable days, despite the damage I did to myself! The mess was delicious with wood shavings everywhere and the grin on my face was worth every second of it even when it came time to clean up the mess I had made. With the wood sanded back I set about finding some recyclable items that I could use and the first thing to hack apart was some broken 1990s Sony Hi-Fi equipment, from which I salvaged some micro-switches and a lot of thin, nasty cables. I did think about using the laser from the CD drive, but I was worried that I could blind someone with it, if I ever managed to make the driver work. With that idea scrapped, I salvaged some very old LEDs (which I never used in the end) and some buttons and dials that could have made some interesting greeblies. I was given some offcuts from from a plumbing job, none of which were of use to a plumber. I had some screws that came from the Hi-Fi and some strips of plastic that I could cut up. I did think about using the circuit boards, but the Hi-Fi kit was very old and dusty and frankly the resistors were almost the same size as my sound modules! The majority of this thing was going to be built from second hand junk and scrap.

The handle was perfect to hide the battery compartment and the torch came with three AAA batteries, which are the cheapest nastiest calls I have ever seen, but given that they cost me nothing, I used them. The bolt became the positive terminal and using parts from the HI-Fi I was able to make the negative terminal in the handle. I used old cables to run the power to the crystal chamber and then I had to make the crystal.

The Crystal was a challenge, I wanted something red that would emit red light and all I had were a set of bicycle lights, until I damaged another board with my soldering iron. This was the board that ran the rear light, which was a small strip of red LEDs powered by two AAA cells. I wanted to extend the LEDs from the board into the crystal chamber, but a momentary switch started giving me problems and I almost gave up with the idea, until I decided that the crystal from the garden light worked a lot better. A white LED from the front light gave the blade aperture a nice red glow when coated with glass paint and the LED from the torch attached to the sound board from the toy pistol gave me a blaster effect that I really enjoyed. With no further electronics needed, it just needed to be put together and soldered into place...

I very nearly buggered it all up when I got confused with my wiring and after a couple of days of sulking (resting from the flu), I worked it out and set it all in place, carefully covered up and with the speaker from the pistol making the appropriate pew pew noises from out of the side of the blaster. The LED from the torch shone out through the small barrel that I had drilled into the wood and capped with the bezel of the torch.

I wanted to paint the sabre, but I also wanted it to look beaten up and well used, so I wrapped it with a small piece of ASDA tin foil and painted on top of that with no undercoat. Once the paint had dried, I was able to scratch it and make it look aged and used, especially once I had applied a bit of weathering too. I should also add that given that I had bought the toy sabre for the sound board, which I broke, I still had to use a bit of it to make the expense worthwhile. So I chopped the top off the damn thing, which turned out to be made from the cheapest plastic going. Given how much this thing cost me, I had expected a little better from it, but such is the way when you buy the cheapest shit on Amazon. Again this was painted, weathered and made to look manky.

I used the body of the front light to make the end of the handle and cover up the engineering bolt and attached to this I made a hanger from some old washers. It was then that I had a flash of inspiration. If Dark Esra had killed Kanan and Maul, maybe he would have taken the crystals from their sabres and attached them to his own as trophies, a lovely dark thought. It still needed something though and then I thought about the Loth-Owls that had followed Ahsoka around on Lothal, what if Esra had caught one and taken its feathers? So I set about our pet owl Alby with with a set of clippers! Don't worry, that is a joke, my other half keeps nice feathers when she sheds them, which happens occasionally. I wrapped the feather stems with wire salvaged from the Hi-Fi, weathered them with some paint and attached them to the hilt.

With that, I was done. It sounds so easy when typed out like this, but it took me ages and I loved every dark second of it, even when I buggered it up. I just need to total up my expenses and then work out how to use Instagram so that I can submit my entry to the competition. Ahhh, the things that these younglings do!

LED torch - £1.99

Bike lights - £3.99

Laser sword - £4.99

Garden light - £0.89

Engineering bolt - £0.75

Toy gun -  £1.00

Paper -  £0.10

ASDA tin foil fragment -  £0.10

Solder - £1.00

Owl Feathers - Lots of cuddle

Broken Hi-Fi

Piece of copper pipe

Scrap wire

Old bicycle grip tape off cut    - All free

Torn leather jeans leg

Scrap wood

Final cost  £14.81 and lots of owl cuddles

If you want to take part in this, go and give Buckethead Props some love, subscribe to their channel, watch their videos and get involved. After all, you only get one life and your Lightsabre is your soul!

[askegwene]

What Are The Advantages Of Pcd Tooling?

PcD tooling is one of the most advanced technologies utilized in the manufacturing sector, which uses a 3D printing technique.

What is pcd-tooling?

A type of tooling technique that is extensively used in manufacturing is called Pcd tooling. It is also known as the sheet mold compound made of polycarbonate, which is a type of plastic.

What are the functions of Pcd Technology?

This is probably the most important issue that people are asking about this technology. This is why, here is a description of the process to understand how it works:

In this process, the plastic material is heated to 200 ° C before being introduced into the machine. The machines will then begin the next stage of producing the product. It is a very quick process and the plastic will be processed within a couple of seconds.

Following this the plastic is then moved to the molder. The molten plastic is now able to be fed to the machines and they begin to shape the shape they want. The mold machine has been built to operate at a high speed and it can mold an object in less than a second.

Once the mold is completed the mold will be taken to the cooling unit. Here the mold can be brought down to a normal temperature. The final step is when the mold is removed from the machine, and the molding is done.

What are the advantages of pcd tooling?

Here are a few of the main advantages.

The printing time is quicker

The time required to complete this process is much less and it is also an extremely quick process. The entire process is quicker than conventional ones.

Molds are made of plastic.

It is important that you be aware that cnc hard turning inserts does do not utilize any molds made of steel. The technology is environmentally friendly and does not require any kind of mould made from steel.

The time it takes to make tools is shorter

Since this process has the capability of creating small tools in a very quick time, it's thought to be an excellent instrument for large and small scale manufacturing.

The main aim of using this technique is to decrease the time required to manufacture, and consequently the cost of production can be saved.

Why this process is preferred by manufacturers?

The following are the factors that make this process a great option for manufacturers to consider:

It's more efficient as well as environmentally friendly.

This method does not require the purchase of new machinery. It uses existing machinery.

This decreases the time to produce and costs.

Pcd technology needs a minimal amount of capital to produce.

Summary:

You've probably figured out that solid cbn inserts, is the best option for a variety of tools. This is why this process is growing at the fastest rate. This is why the manufacturing industry is a fan of it. As I said, pcd technology is among the top tools that manufacturers can use. This is the most effective option for anyone trying to establish a new business.

[cleverapt386]

Free Cad Mac Software Best

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It can really suit all CAD users using Mac! If you are looking for the best free 3D program. This computer-aided design software is perfect for any professional, from engineers to architects. It is allowing to make drafts, edit 2D projects and 3D models for 3D printing.

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Which one of these packages is your pick for the Best Free CAD Software out there?

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Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 5, WFH Overview

Disclosure

I am a Lenovo INsider (it is a customer advocacy program), but I'm way more in the super fan category, than an influencer (whatever that is these days). I did acquire this using a discount provided by Lenovo, but it was with no assumption made that I would write a review, or otherwise promote this product. Words and opinions are my own, I promote what I like.

I don’t do affiliate links, or make any money from this. I just like tech. :)

Okay!

I've been using the X1 Yoga Gen 5 as my personal machine since May of 2020. It has all my work software loaded, and I do use it to work, but it has fallen into a more comfortable use case because of the pandemic. I haven't had the opportunity to travel, and test the 4G LTE functionality as I would have liked, so this review is going to revolve around the device from a work from home perspective. When the pandemic is over, I'll update this review with a report on travel worthiness.

Thinkpad Things

It has all the usual Thinkpad goodness. Famous Thinkpad MIL-SPEC testing, perfect keyboard experience, track point, and sturdy construction.

What's a little different is the CNC aluminum chassis. I've owned a few other laptops that boast this material and build, and they are nice, but Lenovo has done something with it I can't quite describe. Aluminum products always feels a little sloppy in the hand. Depending on milling tolerances and anodizing, things made of aluminum seem blobby and lacking precision when looking at a product. The X1 Yoga Gen 5 almost doesn't feel real, held in the hand, knowing what it's made of.

I don't find myself pressing my thumb against any part of it, and wishing the chassis met up a little better, or wanting the lid to close more uniformly. Most aluminum chassis laptops are just off, somewhere, throwing them off everywhere. Even my very premium Lenovo C940 Yoga, made of aluminum, feels off in the way everything comes together. The X1 Yoga Gen 5 doesn't suffer from any of that, everything feels straight and true on the laptop.

Whatever Lenovo did here, they should keep doing it, if they're going to have more laptops with an aluminum chassis in their lineup.

Work From Home

On those days that I don't want to leave my couch, or mess with a charger, the Low-Power Display options has been really nice. At night, I can turn the display down really low, and during the day it'll get close to 400 nits. This is really nice because I can wake up with my laptop, carry it around with me all day, and have it on during the evening to poke at work, or personal projects.

I mention this because my Lenovo Yoga C940 has a UHD IPS, glossy, HDR 400, 500 nits display, that I can't use comfortably in a dark room. Even at the lowest setting, the screen is too bright. It's not a complaint I thought I would ever have, but here we are. If I was carrying it to a brightly lit office, or coffee shop, and using it to run presentations for clients and customers, it'd be great. Working from home all day, not so much.

If you're getting anything for work from home, definitely look for matte finish, low-power display options, with a 400 nit brightness ceiling.

The 720 HD Webcam and four array microphones (360° far-field) work better than expected for video chat. I'm on camera 2-3 times a week for about 15 hours during the day and night. I've not had any complaints about the ability of others to hear or see me during meetings, or Dungeons & Dragons on Discord. There was the usual battle with Windows 10 to find the microphone hardware, and get things set up, but smooth sailing after that.

For handwriting capture and light artwork tasks, the Lenovo Pen Pro housed in the silo on the right side of the machine does the job well. Pen input with the included stylus is good, latency also good. I would recommend buying a second stylus if you're going to do any serious artwork requiring comfort and precision.

WFH Accessories

If you're looking to really up your WFH game, I recommend these:

The Lenovo Mod Pen

I don't know why, but all the marketing makes this look like a chubby marker as opposed to an elegant writing instrument. The image of the pen isn't formatted properly on the website. That said, it is a fantastic pen stylus, with Wacom Pen Protocol goodness, tilt, and rechargeable. Just got one of these, love it.

ThinkVision T34w-20 34-inch Curved 21:9 Ultrawide Monitor with USB Type-C

Connects to the X1 Yoga Gen 5 with one cable, and has the screen real estate of two screens. It has a Low Blue Light color mode that makes it perfect for dim conditions, and the color profile pairs nicely with that of the Low Power display on the X1 Yoga. The monitor has a USB hub, with an always on port (you activate in the monitor settings menu) to charge your phone or Lenovo Mod Pen.

Lenovo Bluetooth Silent Mouse

There's a point, working from home, where I get really sensitive to every little click or sound. Usually, I'll just go to a place with a lot of soft background noise, like a coffee shop, to reset. The pandemic makes that hard, so I'm always looking at ways to make computing a little quieter. I really like this mouse, both in the feel and shape, and in the reduced noise it makes.

When I actually get to travel, I'll update this review with what I like to take with me, including the service provider I end up using for LTE in the US (or elsewhere).

Charging Accessories

Lenovo makes a bunch of keen charging accessories, I’ve tested them, all good. My favorite two have gotta be these for anything that is 65W (Smart Phones, Nintendo Switch, most Tablets, UltraBooks), and charges over a USB-c / TB port. Lenovo 65W USB-C GaN Adapter

Lenovo Slim USB-C 65W AC Adapter 

Had another INsider report that they got a whine from the GaN Adapter, but that hasn’t been my experience. I usually have headphones on, anyway, but after hearing there might be an issue I spent about 90 minutes reading beside my laptop while it was on, charging up from about 12 percent.

All good, but the GaN Adapters are new tech, and like anything, there’s probably some bugs still to be worked out. The Slim USB-C is just a little slimmer in the bag, and lighter on the shoulder to carry. If you really like to optimize your daily carry situation, I highly recommend it.

Conclusion

It feels like I was often making comparisons between my Lenovo C940 Yoga, and the Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 5. It is worth mentioning that I have some fabricating and purchasing experience with aluminum products, and when it comes to how they are made, I am the prettiest pink princess. Most people won't be able to tell there is something off with one aluminum chassis when compared to another, or have any criticism. If you are a PPP like me, and the details really make or break a purchase, the Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 5 delivers like no other aluminum product I've held in my hands.

The Lenovo Yoga C940 is still a favorite product of mine, and I've written a review of it here.

It makes me curious about the Lenovo X1 Titanium Yoga, because it has everything I feel like the X1 Yoga Gen 5 is kind of missing; 3:2 aspect ratio with a 2k display option (there is perhaps nothing better than this), and a premium graphics option, Intel Iris Xe. If they've been able to work aluminum this well, I'll bet a Titanium product will be just as good. One thing you do lose with the Titanium model, the Lenovo Pen Pro that slides into the chassis. The Titanium Yoga is just too small and thin (almost a half pound lighter than the X1 Yoga Gen 5) to accomodate it.

Thinkpad X1 Yoga 20UBCT01WW Configuration Details

10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10610U Processor with vPro™ (1.80 GHz, up to 4.90 GHz with Turbo Boost, 4 Cores, 12 Threads, 8 MB Cache)

Integrated Intel® UHD Graphics, 16 GB LPDDR3 2133MHz (Soldered), 1 TB PCIe SSD

14.0" FHD(1920x1080) IPS Anti Reflection/Anti Smudge 400nits Touch, IR and 720 HD Camera with Shutter, Mic, WLAN antenna, Gray

Intel® Wi-Fi 6™ AX201 802.11AX (2 x 2) & Bluetooth® 5.0, WWAN - Fibocom L850-GL 4G LTE CAT9

ThinkPad Pen Pro, Fingerprint Reader, RJ45 Extension Connector, Backlit - US English, 4 cell Li-Polymer 51Wh

Standard Ports

1x USB 3.2 Gen 1, 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 (Always On), 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 / Thunderbolt 3 (support data transfer, Power Delivery 3.0 and DisplayPort™ 1.2), 1x HDMI 1.4b, 1x Ethernet extension connector, 1x headphone / microphone combo jack (3.5mm), 1x side docking connector

Battery

Integrated Li-Polymer 51Wh battery, supports Rapid Charge (charge up to 80% in 1hr) with 65W AC adapter

Operating System Options

Windows® 10 Home 64, Windows 10 Pro 64, Linux, Ubuntu Linux

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Royal Docks London Bench Designs

Royal Docks London Bench Designs 2020, Pews and Perches Design Contest Photos, News

Royal Docks London Bench Design Winner

17 December 2020

Royal Docks London Bench Design Competition News

Pews and Perches Design Contest news

London Festival of Architecture and Royal Docks Team unveil winning designs for 2020 ‘Pews and Perches’ competition

17th December 2020 – A series of five new benches designed by emerging architects – the winners of a competition organised the London Festival of Architecture and Royal Docks Team – have been unveiled across the Royal Docks.

The competition, now in its second year, invited architecture and design students, recent graduates and emerging practitioners to deliver a playful new take on street furniture that can celebrate the Royal Docks and the communities at home in the area – a series of conversation starters to re-connect everyone with nature and the docks’ built environment.

From a bench that makes use of the wind to perform as a riverside instrument to a design inspired by an unusual shipment of elephants over 70 years ago, the ‘Pews and Perches’ benches combine imaginative design approaches with creative, sustainable material choices to provide locals, visitors and Londoners with unique new spaces to sit and make the most of their surroundings.

All photos © Luke O’Donovan

ELE-Bench by RAB Studio Thames Barrier Park

Referencing an unusual delivery of 20 baby elephants to the George V Docks in 1947, the ELE-Bench helps bring to life this moment in the docks’ history for future visitors. Inspired by the gait and rhythm of the elephant’s stride pattern, this simple, colourful bench creates a striking elephant silhouette from afar. With a comfortable seat made from cork, the design offers shelter from the wind as well as space for both back-to-back seating and for multiple family members to sit together, encouraging visitors to pause in this location.

This bench is supported by Crafted By Design, Hanex UK and Wyliewood limited.

Water, water everywhere by Betty Owoo and Quincy Haynes Royal Victoria Gardens

With piles of rubbish such as plastic bottles and face masks still commonly thrown into the Thames, this design seeks to start a conversation about how we can inspire people to treat our waterways better and reuse these objects. Water, water everywhere uses these found objects and suspends them in resin where they seem to be floating in water, and jesmonite, where they are almost riverbed fossils waiting to be uncovered. Frozen in time, the result is a bench simple in form but complex in materiality, providing a sculptural seat for people to gather and connect with the water’s edge.

This bench is built in collaboration with Helen Caulfield of the Redundant Architects Recreation Association (R.A.R.A.) and supported by Sophie Percival and Priscilla Wong.

The Royal Resonance by CAST (Chutimon Suetragulwong, Austin Joseph, Sonam Dahya, Tyler Natdanai) Outside UTC College

The Royal Resonance tackles the topic of the pandemic and social distancing with playful urban furniture that allows people to be together while remaining safely apart. In a design inspired by nature, several aluminium poles vibrate in the wind, performing as a riverside instrument and an art form. The modular design promotes both isolation and relationships between people and nature, forging local interactions as well as social distancing as a community safely.

This bench is supported by Jian Jun Hayashi, Jeremy Tay and Karakusevic Carson Architects Workshop.

Afloat by Ben Child and Luca Luci Connaught Crossing North

Referencing the docks’ marine context, this design recycles rowing oars to create a crossed structure for the bench. Building on this, Afloatsees different oar lengths used to support the back rest and armrest, which also includes a small table. The back rest and seat itself are made from marine plywood, cut with a CNC machine. Finished in a bright teal colour and engraved with ‘Royal Docks’, the bench stands out from afar, creating a contrast with the wooden texture of the oars and highlighting its structure.

The Rocking Bench by Duncan Graham Thames Barrier Park

A call for playfulness and for a bit of fun in today’s less than fun world, the Rocking Bench stands out with its bright, yellow colour, and seeks to encourage interaction while keeping people safely apart. Inspired in part by the beam scales once used in the Royal Docks to weigh imported goods, the bench uses a simple rocking motion to provide a connection for friends, family, and neighbours, but also calls out for companions for those sat alone. The bench consists of CNC cut plywood fastened together with steel rods, and was manufactured entirely within the Lee Valley.

Once London’s gateway to world trade, the Royal Docks is one of the UK’s most important regeneration stories, as it re-emerges as a thriving and diverse commercial and cultural hub with a welcoming new waterfront. The winning teams and the Royal Docks Team have worked closely with local communities to develop their designs, ensuring that these are in keeping with the communities’ needs and aspirations for their public space.

This project also expands on the legacy of the first edition ‘Pews and Perches’ competition, which sees three benches remain installed across the Royal Docks waterfront, where they are still enjoyed by the public. Building on this success, these five new benches will continue to champion the Festival’s mission to support and showcase emerging talent. In response to the regulations put in place due to coronavirus, they will not only bring a fresh, new design perspective but also provide space to safely enjoy the Royal Docks.

The teams have each been awarded £2,000 including a design fee of £500 to develop, build and install their benches, which will be in place for the next year. The competition was judged by an expert panel including Dan Bridge (Programme Director in the Royal Docks), Tamsie Thomson (Managing Director, New London Architecture), Frances Williams, (Technical Editor, Architects’ Journal), Pedro Gil (Founder, Studio Gil), Rawnak Jassm (Community Engagement Officer, Royal Docks Team) and Kevin Twyford (Principal Landscape Architect, London Borough of Newham).

Tamsie Thomson, Managing Director of New London Architecture, said:

“This year’s Pews and Perches collection is a series of imaginative and thoughtful responses to the unique setting of the Royal Docks and the times we find ourselves in. Thanks to our brilliant design teams, these benches draw upon the Royal Docks’ rich history, offer commentary on our environmental impact, and reconcile our desire to be together while remaining socially distant. Every year I’m inspired by how the winning teams address the brief, and I hope that many people will enjoy these benches and experience the difference that great design can make to our everyday lives.”

Background

The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is the world’s largest annual architecture festival and showcases London as a global architectural hub. The LFA’s mission is to support London’s architectural and design talent, enthuse and engage with the public, and find new ways to look at familiar places. In 2020 the LFA has explored the theme of power, and celebrated innovation and design through a digital events programme in June. The 2019 edition of the LFA inspired over 600 events across the capital, attracting over 800,000 visitors and a global audience of 138 million. A year-round programme of design competitions, design charrettes, campaigns and other activities also champions London as the best place in the world to practice and enjoy architecture.

Twitter: @LFArchitecture Instagram: @LondonFestivalofArchitecture https://ift.tt/18UHe3d

Royal Docks Enterprise Zone:The Royal Docks Enterprise Zone is a joint project between the Mayor of London, the London Borough of Newham, led by Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz, and the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP). It has the potential to deliver 35,000 jobs, 4,000 new homes and more than £5 billion of inward investment by 2037/38. As London’s only Enterprise Zone, the Royal Docks has a special government designation that means new business rates in the Zone are reserved and reinvested into the area. This has enabled plans for £314 million of investment into the area over the next 5 years to revive the area as a distinctive location for business and culture.

www.royaldocks.london @YourRoyalDocks

Royal Docks London Design Competition information received 171220

Previously on e-architect:

Royal Docks London Design Competition News

Transforming London’s Royal Docks with water sensitive urban design – new open ideas design competition is announced.

Royal Docks London Contest Design: Heatherwick Studio image from London Development Agency Royal Docks London Design Competition – proposal by UK designers Heatherwick Studio

Albert Island, Royal Docks London Development – 2018

Silver Building in the Royal Docks, London – 2017

Royal Docks London Regeneration Proposals – 2016

Royal Docks Cable Car – 2013

Another Royal Docks London design on e-architect:

Royal Docks Business Park Design: KCAP with Maccreanor Lavington Architects image from architect Royal Docks Business Park

Location: Royal Albert Way, London, England, UK

London Buildings

Contemporary London Architecture Designs

London Building Designs – chronological list

London Architecture Tours by e-architect

London Architects Offices

London Architecture

Royal Docks London Regeneration Proposals

London Olympic Stadium HOK Sport – Peter Cook

London designs by Thomas Heatherwick – Selection:

Paperhouse, Kensington & Chelsea, west London Paperhouse : Newspaper Kiosk design

Rolling Bridge, west London Rolling Bridge

Key design by Thomas Heatherwick:

Shanghai Expo – UK Pavilion, China Shanghai Expo UK Pavilion

Another Royal Docks building on e-architect:

Silvertown Quays Farrells Silvertown Quays Royal Docks

The Shard Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)

Royal Academy of Arts London

Royal Courts of Justice London

Royal Danish Embassy

Comments / photos for the Royal Docks Redevelopment London page welcome

London

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Agilenano - News: Fiio m5 portable high-resolution music player review

Music player provides retro music-playing experience that may not be worth the cost. Born in the early 1980s, I was lucky to experience the transition from cassette tape, through compact disc, through standalone MP3/MP4 players through various generations of iPhones. Our ability to listen to portable music has certainly expanded since the advent of the Sony Walkman in 1979. As smartphone tech has expanded, many of the features of standalone devices have become integrated into them. Now we can use our phones to navigate via maps/GPS, to watch movies/TV, to read magazines/books, to compose messages/articles/papers, to draw, and so much more. Streaming services and digital sources have reduced the need to purchase hard copies of music. It has become quite convenient to pay a monthly subscription instead of paying for music or larger hard drives/storage options. With an iPad/iPhone/Apple Watch/iPod Touch, you can still choose to purchase music, download what you want from the cloud, and then delete it without the need to ever hook your device up to a computer. I have not missed searching through a stack of SD cards to find the desired file, messing with a card reader, or the need to manage libraries/files on my computer. Other than for my Nintendo Switch and DSLR camera, I really have no need for SD cards. I received the FiiO M5 Portable High-Resolution Music Player for review and questioned the relevance of the device in the era of the smartphone. I would not consider myself an audiophile but I have tested several players and headphones. I wanted to give it a fair chance, based on its own merit but struggled to understand the cost to value. The M5 Portable Music Player arrived in an attractive 3 5/8 inches wide by 5 15/16 inches tall by 1 inch thick hanging retail package.  The clean white packaging served as the perfect backdrop for the colorful square image of the music player, which reminded me a bit of my Apple Watch.  The FiiO company name, in bold black font, was listed along the top left of the cover and you will find two square icons denoting Hi-Res Audio (Wireless) to the right of the FiiO name.  Along the lower section of the cover panel, you will find the “M5 Portable High-Resolution Music Player” name and four icons: Qualcomm aptXHD, Qualcomm aptX, Bluetooth, and LDAC.  With the cover facing up, the side panel to my left displayed “FiiO” in silver/grey font and the opposite side had M5 in the same silver/grey font.  The top panel housed the semi-opaque hanging tab and the bottom panel was left blank.  The rear panel provided several of the product manufacturing labels and copyright/legalese information. To access the product, I removed the thin outer plastic, gripped the hanging tab, and pulled upward. The inner box smoothly slid out of the surrounding slipcover.  Within the outer layer of the box, you will find two smaller boxes.  Along the top, you will find a 3 7/16 inches wide by 3 1/8 inches tall by 9/16 inches thick foam block with included M5 player.  Along the bottom, you will find a 3 7/16 inches wide by 2 5/8 inches tall by 7/8 inches thick accessory box with a 32 1/2 inches long USB-A to USB-C cable and a clear plastic belt-clip case.  Beneath the foam layer with M5 player, you will find a 3 7/16 inches wide by 3 inches tall by 1/2 inches thick box with an included screen protector, multilingual Bluetooth instruction manual, and a warranty disclaimer booklet (1-month guarantee for replacement, 1 year of free maintenance, no warranty for the accessories). Lastly, you will find a multi-lingual quick start guide, with three pages for each language.  I turned to the English language section and found a useful labeled diagram of the 1 5/8 inches wide by 1 3/4 inches tall by 9/16 inches thick music player.  The 36-gram device had a 1 1/8 inches square touch screen on the front panel, a 3.5mm port, volume down/up buttons, dual microphones, and power/lock buttons along the top panel.  On the bottom panel, you will find the USB-C port and the Micro SD card slot (not included).  To activate the device, hold the power button, and enjoy a brilliant touchscreen image displaying “FiiO Born to Music.” After a few seconds, the player will display a large pink triangle with the words “Now Playing” beneath it. You can change screens by swiping to the right or to the left. As you swipe from left to right, you will scroll through several screens: Category, Step Counter, Recording, Settings, BT Receiver, and Browse Files. My favorite feature of the M5 Portable player was the BT Receiver mode. Once the device was powered on, I swiped left to right several times until the BT Receiver icon was present on the screen. I tapped the Bluetooth symbol to “Enable Bluetooth” and subsequently navigated to Settings, selected Bluetooth, and then FiiO M5 from the list on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. This feature allowed the M5 player to pair with my iPhone, similar to other Bluetooth headsets. Thanks to the included 3.5mm port, you can plug your favorite pair of wired headphones into the M5 player to enjoy a pseudo-Bluetooth listening experience. Since the device does not have embedded speakers, you will need to provide your own at added cost to the virus. I paired my RHA IEM earphones with the M5 and listened to many of my standard headphone test tracks and a few new 8D options through Spotify and Amazon Music Unlimited. I also used a pair of 1More wired IEM earphones as well. I added the M5 device securely within the clear belt clip and listened for several hours. The 550mAh LiPo battery lasted approximately 10 hours and charged in about two and a half hours. I was pleased with the sound, with the portability and with the ability to remain handsfree from my iPhone. The volume up/down buttons quickly changed the volume of the headphones and I was able to play/pause music with the button on the top. Unfortunately, the RCA headphones lost the function of the inline button control. Despite the M5 feature, I already own several 3.5mm to Lightning and 3.5mm to USB-C dongles (iPad Pro). It was for that reason that I found the $99.99 price tag hard to swallow. If you want to add your corded earphone/headphones to your smartphone, simply purchase a headphone dongle for $9. While testing the device, I repeatedly found myself trying to find a feature/function that my iPhone 11Pro Max could not do for me. I liked being able to carry the lighter weight M5 while jogging/riding my bike. I could have my iPhone 11 Pro Max in the saddlebag of my Trek Mountain Bike but I could have placed the FiiO M5 on my lapel for music. Again, I found it difficult to beat a pair of Bluetooth headphones. Throughout the testing, I could not stop thinking about the laughing Apple Dongle video and that I might have the most expensive iPhone Dongle that currently exists. Since nearly everyone has a smartphone, I did not compare the price of the M5 to the purchase price of an iPhone. The M5 paired well with my iPhone and remained connected throughout my tests. In addition to the Bluetooth receiver test, the M5 had the ability to act as a Bluetooth Transmitter through SBC, aptX, and LDAC formats. I paired it with a Tribit XSound Go speaker and was pleased with the sound output. To test this, I played the sample track that came with the player. I also paired the M5 Player with a pair of Tranya Bluetooth Speakers. The downside to the music player was the need to have onboard music. As an added benefit, the M5 player had a built-in pedometer, and dual microphones along the top to capture high-quality audio (need a memory card). Again, my iPhone can capture audio and I do not also need to purchase/format a microSD card (up to 2TB). The website states that there are several accessories for the M5 to include a clear belt clip and a watch accessory. The CNC machined aluminum alloy M5 is available in Meteorite Black, Radiant Red, Starry Blue, Dreamy Silver, and Moonlight Titanium. You can wear the device with the included clear belt clip, or you can purchase the watch accessory from the website. At first, the user interface was pretty easy to navigate and the functions of the device were not difficult to learn. However, after several days of using the device, I found myself struggling with the clunky touchscreen. It did not want to respond to my finger swipes and this problem was exacerbated by the included screen protector. I was disappointed that they did not include even a small micro SD card with the kit. Personally, I find it time-consuming to try to add music to a memory card to then insert it into the device for a portable player. The thought of doing that brought up several memories of Napster and my college days of MP3 and data files. With modern streaming services like Spotify, Amazon Unlimited, and YouTube, you can listen to whatever you want, when you want to, from your smartphone. I am sure that there will be some audiophiles who feel that smartphone sound is terrible and a DAP is the goto setup. Since I did not notice much of a difference in sound quality from the M5 or my phone with wired or bluetooth headsets. The M5 does not have its own speaker and thus it relies on the quality of headphones that you select. By the time you have purchased the device and memory card, you will likely be quite close to a reasonable pair of Bluetooth headphones. In fact, some like 1MORE have their own App that allows you to gain EQ functions. As another downside when compared to an iPhone, the device did not support video playback. For the price, the device should have come with a memory card, possibly a silicone strap, and should have had covers for the USB-C, 3.5mm port and micro SD port. I did not find any mention of waterproofing, which decreased the utility further. So unless you want a retro MP3/MP4 experience, I would recommend that you save for a better quality pair of earphones/headphones and continue to use your smartphone as your jack-of-all-trades device. I appreciated the watch like structure, the ability to rotate the screen, and the equalizer functions. However, I disliked the screen’s lack of responsiveness. The user interface felt basic, the device had no radio transmitter, and I was unable to see what was playing when in Bluetooth Receiver mode. I read several other reviews to try to see what I was missing but continued to return to my original question of “what does the average person gain by purchasing this device?” Learn more about the FiiO M5 Player. Follow FiiO on Facebook and Twitter. #FiiO #MusicPlayer #Accessory

Agilenano - News from Agilenano from shopsnetwork (4 sites) https://agilenano.com/blogs/news/fiio-m5-portable-high-resolution-music-player-review-1

[wintergatan2000]

Wintergatan Album-less Tracks

These “secret tracks” are not really secret, but they are tracks that aren’t on a Wintergatan album, making them a little more obscure. I’m posting them to collect them all in one place. I suppose one could think of it as “songs with no official studio release”, which is a more accurate way to put it.

Originally posted Aug 2 2017.

Updated Aug 16 2017, added “Marble Machine X VS the Original”.

Updated Sep 27 2017, added “ Programming Wheel Skeleton - Building MMX Ep.#7″

Updated Dec 11 2017. Replaced “Marble Machine X VS the Original” with “Movingtofrance_2014intro.wav”. Added songs found in “Channel Update & Music Machine Mondays Finale Week”. Misc fixes.

Updated Dec 12 2017. Added “Music Machine Monday theme song”

Updated Jan 8 2018 with Hammered Dulcimer etc

Update Jan 15 with Moon and Star

Update Jan 31 with a track from Marble Demagnetizer - it's Mechanical! / Marble Machine X #24

Update Feb 7 - new link to Jelle’s Marble Runs BGM

Update Feb 14 with new tunes from MMX # 25

Update Feb 19

Update Apr 12 with Olivier, Local Cluster

Update May 23 2018 with Midi Demo 2 (MMX 33), Atlanten

Update May 30 with MMX 36, Prototype T

Update Jun 27 with MMX 41

Official Singles

Officially released on Bandcamp or other official webpages, but not as part of an album. The songs listed in the other sections haven’t been released in any official capacity.

Visa Från Utanmyra -- on Youtube. a traditional song, given a Wintergatan touch. A short making-of documentary is available here.

Tornado: Bandcamp release. A song that was played during Wintergatan’s 2013 tours. Never made it onto an album. Still cool though.

Marble Machine--okay, y’all already know this one. Next.

Emerson -- Bandcamp release. a song that appears towards the end of the video “Building the 90 Degree Kick Drum Fail”. Unreleased 2011 demo that was cut for “having too many things going on”.

Prototype 1 -- Bandcamp release. A song that appears in the Wintergatan Wednesday video “Prototyping Marble Machine X - Mute System”. The song was made in a day, just for that video, so it won’t be released on an album.

Multiverse (Twinsters Documentary Opening Scene): Bandcamp release. BGM for 3D Printed Drums - Marble Machine X. 

The track is the opening scene from the "Twinsters" documentary soundtrack that i composed a while back.

Somewhat frustrating: the version in the video is different from the version on bandcamp...

...which is still different from the original song from the documentary! That version is under Unofficial Songs.

Provence / Provence (With Intro): Bandcamp releases. Piano improv backdrop for 3 Days in Provence / Marble Machine X - Part 7 .

Another track found in the rejected demo folder -- Bandcamp release. Used in the Welcome back to Wintergatan Wednesdays (and Mondays!) video.

Wily’s Castle. Youtube. a demonstration of the Modulin’s capabilities. Also, dope as hell.

Music Machine Mondays Theme Song

Music Box, Harp & Hammered Dulcimer - Bandcamp. BGM for a WWednesday vid. Starts as a remix of All was Well, but becomes completely new, ending on a riff on Slottskogen Disc Golf Club. Trivia: It’s the first song recorded in the new music studio in France.

Moon and Star - Bandcamp, BGM for a WWednesday vid. A remix of “Telescope” -- see below.

Sandviken Stradivarius- Bandcamp. BGM for the video Channel Update: Beta-Testing Youtube Sponsorships

“Olivier” -- A lo-fi remix(?) of Pedro. Really it’s just Pedro with the drum kick removed, so it’s only the piano. BGM for the video where Martin Molin makes olive oil, for reasons I have forgotten.

Local Cluster -- A jazzy track in the style of Tornado , found in the rejected demos. BGM from Making a Lego Powered Lazy Susan Photography Turntable .

Atlanten -- A synth track from another Swedish band, Teleskärm . Marcus Sjöberg plays drums, Martin Molin plays Modulin. BGM from MMX 35 (3d Printer Calibration). Marcus Sjöberg is a core member of Teleskarm so debatably their band is Wintergatan-adjacent?

Official Remixes

Officially-released remixes of Marble Machine, All Was Well, and other songs off the Wintergatan 2013 album.

Marble Machine (Concert Mix Götaplatsen 2016): Bandcamp release. A remix of the Marble Machine song. They couldn’t tour with the original Marble Machine I (too fragile, too hard to transport).

All Was Well - Music Box & Modulin Version. Bandcamp. Performed in a video, and across various venues in 2016.

Marble Machine - Piano Version. Bandcamp. By popular request.

Wintergatan Live at Victoriateatern. Bandcamp. The entire Wintergatan 2013 album, remixed for their 2016 tour. Some notes:

Intro: a prerecorded version of All Was Well, with more synth.

All Was Well: another version of All Was Well, featuring more melodica and synth sound, whistling, and no modulin.

the Giorgio by Moroder and Telescope tracks aren’t in this bandcamp listing for some reason. Copyright? They’re listed below, at any rate.

Unofficial Songs

Songs with no official release. Remixes and originals. Usually BGM from Youtube videos.

Sommarfågel (Music Box Mix) -- a simple remix of Sommarfågel, played at the end of the original Sommarfågel music video, in 2013.

Intro (Demo 2013) -- a prerecorded electronic track, played as a demo before concerts. Appears in Roskilde 2013.

Wintergatan at Roskilde. Their 2013 tour had some remixes of their studio album, which are different in turn from their 2016 Victoriateatern performance.

Wintergatan live at Debaser Strand. Some more from their 2013 tour. I don’t have the time right now to see if there’s any differences, but I think there are.

Multiverse (Original). The “original” version of Multiverse...? Or at least, a different version. Claims to be the original OST version. And yes, it is different from the official version of Multiverse.

Testing 3D Printed Drums for Marble Machine X: https://youtu.be/XbQjtEoK0Cs?t=2m10s.

“Building” -- the BGM in “Using a CNC Machine to Build Marble Machine X” . A remixed version appears at 5:05 of that video, but is better heard in “The Marble Machine is Finished! 2000 marbles, 3000 parts   ”.  Also appears in the video “Wintergatan 2017 Plans - Double Album, etc".

Unclear if it’s a scrapped demo, made for announcements, or a preview of the next album. It gets used a lot though!

"Movingtofrance_2014intro.wav” Appears in the video  Marble Machine X VS The First Marble Machine . at 7:30, and Trigger Mechanism - Building MMX Ep.#10 at 12:02.

Super leaked track that was only shared in the comments, and the download expired after a week. Martin didn’t want to release this one because it still had a click track in it, which he thought was unpolished. I still have it though.

"Behind the Scenes” -- BGM from Wintergatan’s video “Sommarfagel at Haldern Pop 2016: Behind the Scenes”. It’s got a unique sort of “rolling” sound, which sounds a bit like the turning crank of the Marble Machine 1. Possibly a preview for the next album, though it could also be a one-off.

"Pedro” -- untitled BGM from a Wintergatan Wednesday video, “90 degree Kick Drum Solved” [9 min, 5s]. A melancholy piano-focused track, apparently found in a scrapped demos folder. Appears (without drums) in Magnet "Midi" Music System - Marble Machine X #25  [5:43], as like a joke sad thing.

Martin Molin calls it Untitled, but I named it after the person who helped Martin Molin with the 90 degree kick drum.

“Skeleton”  -- untitled BGM from Wintergatan Wednesday, “ Programming Wheel Skeleton - Building MMX Ep.#7″. @0 minutes 45 seconds

Telescope (Concert Preview) -- a currently unreleased track. Part of Wintergatan’s concert set from 2016.

Telescope (2017) -- a remix of Telescope, above--set to be released on Wintergatan’s double album. The song appears in the video “Channel Update & Music Machine Mondays Finale Week”, at 0:00 and again at 11:53. We got a sneak peek!

“120 RPM/Volfpeck/Procrastination Meter” - BGM from Marble Demagnetizer - it's Mechanical! / Marble Machine X #24. Also appears in MMX 37 (CNC Magnet Levers) (at 0:00, 6:45)

“Midi Demo” - Sample/test tracks from Magnet "Midi" Music System (MMX25 [9:17]). Used to test the idea of “offset pins”. Made just for the video.

“Midi Demo 2″/”Butterfly Luck” - The same sample track from MMX 25, but improvised on, and revised slightly. Appears in MMX 33 (Conveyer Belt Marble Lift) [1:30], though I posted the mix at time [4:13].

“Jelle’s Marble Runs/Plywood Gear” -- BGM from “Channel Update and Music Machine Mondays Finale Week” (at 7:57) (has SFX over it). Also appears in MMX #24 (Plywood Gear, still has SFX over it). A riff that’s heavy on synth and bass guitar.

“Prototype T” - BGM from MMX36 Planetary Gears (at 0:00). Samples the melody from Prototype 1 (see 0:58 in Prototype T). Martin writes in the description “The music in todays episode is a track that i literally improvised today for this video, its inspired by the music of Teleskärm. I had no time to polish it up so there is no free download link yet.”.

Appears again in Flywheel (MMX 46) at 8:25; again in MMX51 at 10:11

“Demag 2″ - BGM from MMX39 (Demag Wheel 2). Bass riff.

“Muted [Downtempo]” - BGM from MMX41 “MUting system assembly”. Kind of future-funk riff, no bells this time. Also appears in MMX51 “Muting levers and 23 new parts” or something

“It’s been a journey but we’re now on our way” - BGM from MMX43. Martin writes:

I am always saying how fast i am making these tracks - its important to me that you understand the difference between the music you hear here in wintergatan wednesdays that i spent 2 hours making and the music we will compose and produce with care and time for the upcoming releases. So, this was a fun Half tempo Daft Punk pastiche that actually communicated quite well what this week was all about in the world of MMX. I think i enjoy making these background tracks cause i have no filter, no perfectionism, i just say yes to all the first ideas. Win loose or draw to quote Ricky Gervais "Humanity". I don’t want to publish this track as a free download on bandcamp, Its just made on a whim and also, Wintergatan music doesn’t have vocals :) But if all this repetition stuck in your head and you want to make sure that you never can forget it even if you´d like to you can download the track from Wetransfer here: 

https://we.tl/3q2wUCPlGi

“Latheless/Crank Handle” -- Kind of future-funk -like music? With bells? No one’s reading this anyway so I can call it what i want . Appears in MMX “Making a crank handle without a lathe”

Dropping the Ball -- more bass. MMX 52, 28:25

Improvising on a 500 Year old Music Instrument - The Carillon

Giorgio by Moroder -- Wintergatan’s take on the track by Daft Punk. Part of Wintergatan’s 2016 concert set.

Marble Machine (Original Piano Cover) -- The Marble Machine got an official piano cover after fans requested it. However, that piano cover is a little different from the original that inspired the fan requests.

Rome -- A remix of a Nick&Simon song, discussed in the video (”Building the Music Box”) .

[dwscmt]

December Meeting Recap

Hi Downtown and Wooster Square Community,

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our December DWSCMT meeting! Below are the minutes from the meeting.

We hope to see you at our next meeting on January 15th at 6pm in City Hall, Meeting Room #2.

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Thank you to representatives from the APT Foundation and City of New Haven Community Services Administration for attending the December DWSCMT meeting to introduce themselves and listen to questions, thoughts, and concerns from residents. Read the article in the New Haven Independent about their presentation

here

.

If you have questions that were not answered that the meeting, please submit your question(s)

here

. We will be compiling these questions and sending them to both the APT Foundation and Community Services Administration.

New Haven Police Department

In 2019, NHPD plans to focus on 1) Environmental changes to prevent crime; 2) Walkability and lighting projects

Sgt Maher is back to work on January 3rd

The Green has been quieter — still have a 2-person beat from 7am-midnight in the car or bike.

Livable Cities Initiative

Package theft occurring in neighborhood, please be aware of holiday packages left outside

Carmen is addressing issues at vacant and/or blighted properties e.g. 601 Chapel, 169 Olive

Town Green

Small Business Saturday was a success and the parking deal of 1 hour of free parking has remained for the entire holiday season.

Town Green’s New Haven Night Market welcomed over 2,000 attendees and 40 vendors to Orange Street on Dec 7th. They look forward to producing another Night Market in 2019 based upon the overwhelming positive feedback.

They also partnered with the City of New Haven on the New Haven Holiday Village in Temple Plaza which took place from Dec 13-Dec 16th and hosted over 16 vendors over 4 days.

Flights of Fancy is coming up on January 24th, 2019 and we encourage everybody to come shop, sip and taste at over two dozen local shops and restaurants.  Tickets are for sale on our website: http://wwww.downtownnewhaven.com/fof/  

New Haven Free Public Library

Tinker Lab Carvey (CNC machine) holiday crafting

Museum & theater passes are available to cardholders - Long Wharf, Yale Rep, New Haven Symphony Orchestra

Upcoming family board game afternoon

See www.nhfpl.org for more info

Yale

Save the date: MLK Weekend at Peabody Museum (Jan. 19-21)

Peabody will be closing for renovations

Alder Roth

Holiday Shop-Sip-Savor Stroll by The College-Chapel Merchants Association will be on Wednesday, December 19 and Thursday, December 20 from 4-8pm.

Alder Committee Public Hearing on Bikeshare is Thursday, Feb 7.

LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) Community Leadership Team Meeting (City Hall, Meeting Room 3) is on Wednesday, December 19, 6:00 - 7:00 pm.

Pension Task Force (City Hall, Meeting Room TBD) is on Monday, January 7, 4:00 pm. She encourages folks to attend these meetings when possible because pensions play a significant role in the city's large structural deficit/financial challenges.

Finance committee meetings on the second Monday of the month at 6 pm in the alder chambers. The Mayor releases her proposed budget 3/1. So budget cycle starts soon.

Affordable Housing Task Force will present its recommendations and report on Wednesday, January 9, 6:00 - 8:00 pm and then finalize their report on Tuesday, January 15, 6:00 - 8:00 pm (200 Orange St., Public Hearing Room G-2).

Public Safety Committee (City Hall, Alders Chambers): I am hoping this meeting will be a public hearing focused on traffic safety, including the idea of a red light camera pilot program in Downtown New Haven on Tuesday, January 15: 6:00 pm.

Audubon and Orange Crosswalk: You may have noticed that the crosswalk pattern is not like the pattern in the designs we saw.  That is because the current crosswalk markings are just temporary until spring, when the weather warms up enough to make the planned markings. Thanks everyone for your patience during the build-out of the other infrastructure improvements!

CitySeed’s fifth annual Winter Farmers’ Market will open for the season on Saturday, January 5th. CitySeed’s Winter Market will be again be hosted indoors at Metropolitan Business Academy, 115 Water Street, from 10am to 1pm.

Alder Catalbasoglu

Seeking help reaching non-Yale residents of Ward 1. Email hacibey.catalbasoglu@yale.edu with ideas!

Northside Development

Proposal for ground level retail, 2 floors parking, several floors of apartments at their property between Foot Locker & Dollar Tree on Chapel Street

New building will go all the way through to Center Street

Property has been surface parking since a fire destroyed previous building in 2007

Hopefully will enhance linkage of green with Ninth Square

120 units residential, 66 studios, starting at $1200/month (approx.)

55 automobile parking spaces, and 45 bike parking spaces

See article here and here.

APT Foundation and Community Services Administration

See New Haven Independent article here.

Submit questions for APT Foundation and Community Services Administration here.

Fair Street Presentation, Steve Fontana of City of New Haven Economic Development

City would like to reconnect Fair Street between Union and Olive

This would become primarily a bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfare

Will require selling parking lot near Court Street where some neighbors park

See more details and information here.

Happy New Year!

DWSCMT

[ryanellisphoto]

#153 — Saturday, March 9th, 2019 — Ryan Ellis Photography - Detroit Street Photography Session #153 — Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 

Walking the M-1 Rail on foot - David Klein Gallery - David Bosco Willis - Jazz Man’s Broken Horn Blues - Broken Saxophone - Roy R Rowlands - Pain in the Neck - Batman Forever (But Hopefully For Shorter Than That)

Arrived @ 8:10 AM

Departed @ 4:40 PM

254 photos (and a whopping 36 videos) taken in 8½ hours with but 26 “keepers” among them, rendering a respectable 10.24% “success” rate at a sluggish 29.88 shots per hour (I desire the most at least to achieve a 10% “success” rate and 100 shots per hour). 

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PREFACE:

Famed rock critic (and mentor to the man that decides what plays on ClearChannel [which sets the programing for much of the tunes heard on the radio today]), Robert Christgau, has a letter grade system for evaluating musical works he reviews. While calling bad bad and good good, he also sometimes calls bad good. In other words, sometimes an awful piece is so bad that it is good. Getting away from music, a film that might fit that description is Tim Burton’s, “Batman Forever.” Among its flaws, the suits worn by the supers have hard, molded necks that extend up from the shoulders, which hilariously forces the characters to turn their whole bodies in order to look behind them instead of simply turning their necks to do the same (quite impractical if you are trying to save Gotham). That level of rigidness is what I had to maintain today as I took pictures and videos in the city I do not love (but am slowly learning to appreciate). My neck was still in pain, and I babied it (albeit while pushing myself to the limit to see what I could yet accomplish). All in all, it was a good and profitable day.

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PATH TAKEN:

Greektown - I took a prescribed high-dose ibuprofen to mask the deep pain from my recent neck injury. According to the bottle, it is supposed to last eight-hours (and I follow its instructions), but I find it only lasts maybe four-hours in my body. My whole life, I have always been highly-tolerant of pain-numbing medicaments. I half-joke (and half-shudder) that I am terrified of growing old. I fear the inconsolable pain of unpredictable but inevitable procedures approaching me during my especially-aged years. 

Monroe Street 

Campus Martius Park 

The Esplanade on Woodward Avenue

Congress Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Campus Martius  (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Grand Circus (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Montcalm Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Sproat Street / Adelaide Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Charlotte Street & Woodward Avenue - I ran into my beloved friend, Devin, here. A portrait of her graces the “top ten” shots of the day. I was following the path of the M-1 Rail down Woodward when I crossed Charlotte Street. I saw a car speeding toward me, coming from halfway down the block. There was a stop sign before Woodward, so I kept crossing and pointed to the car and then to the stop sign to indicate the legal need to decelerate soon (aside from the fact that they might hit me otherwise). I finished crossing ten-seconds before they reached where I walked, and I heard uproarious shouting behind me, which I figured was the driver’s disdain for my firmness. Then I heard something quite unexpected—my name. “Ryan! Ryan!,” they shouted. I had to look back now. The voice registered in my mind a picosecond before I saw the familiar face of my wondrously wonderful companion in this town, Devin. I had not seen her face since the last (or two times ago) David Klein Gallery artist talk that I had attended. We keep in touch via text. In fact, she is looking to upgrade her gear, and Tuesday of this same week, we chatted about what next she should buy. I suggested she get a full frame Nikon DSLR with an external audio input and output (D600 at least, because it is the cheapest [oldest]) Nikon body that fits this bill. She wants to instead get the “Black Magic Cinema Camera,” which currently is the smallest, cheapest, pro-video camera (I think it shoots in 4K raw). I ran up to Devin’s car. Her window was rolled down, so I reached in and hugged her. I was overjoyed to see her. She is a good person. She is a sweetheart. After hugging me back, she exclaimed that that was not good enough and got out of her car and hugged me more properly. Hahaha. We chatted for two-seconds, and I told her she knew what was next. She posed, and I photographed her for a minute. She explained that she is now driving for one of those modern-day taxi-like services for side cash. I wished her well, and we made plans to shoot together when the weather warms up. What a charge to the system that was! I was ready to take on the world (or at least Detroit)!

Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard / Mack Avenue (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Canfield Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Warren Avenue (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Ferry Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Amsterdam Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Baltimore Street (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Grand Boulevard (M-1 Rail [on foot])

Penske Tech Center (M-1 Rail [on foot]) - Having just completed walking the length of the line in just under one-hour, I told a stranger nearby my accomplishment. He smiled. 

The Fisher Building - This building is called by some “The Gem of Detroit.” I rather think that the Guardian Building is the gem of the city, but the Fisher Building and the Guardian Building each have immense glory to them, so I accept such a compliment for either. I think the Guardian Building is better than the Fisher Building, because the Guardian (to me) was more thoughtfully conceived on its outside. It also had details (down to the waitresses’ uniforms and the cutlery in the eating areas) chosen by the architect to match the building’s aesthetic. That said, the inside of the Fisher Building is grander than the one of the Guardian. There were stones mined into extinction that made it into the Fisher Building. While perhaps cruel, it is also majestic to see such extreme measures taken to ensure that the Fisher Building was a sight to behold (and one-of-a-kind at that). 

The DMC (Detroit Medical Center)

Milano Bakery - I had just walked (and at times jogged [across intersections with fading crosswalk countdowns]) the 3.3-mile length of the M-1 Rail (and then some). Then I walked from City Center, through Midtown, and into Eastern Market. I arrived fifteen-minutes early for my 11 AM meeting with my dear friend, Roy (I was surprised I had kept such a keen pace). After I visited with my security guard pal there, I found a table inside and plugged in my camera battery charger to charge a battery, and I waited for Roy’s arrival, which came at six past eleven. I was dead-tired and famished (I had very little for breakfast, and I certainly had walked myself into an appetite more fitting of a newly-minted marathon-finisher than what seemed appropriate given the distance I had just covered). This hunger suited Roy’s present mood as well quite conveniently.    

Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse - Roy had a hankering for “Chinese” food. We drove to Tepanyaki in his red Mercedes convertible. The front doors were deadbolted shut when we reached the entrance. As we took a few steps back, we noticed “For Lease” signs on the windows. Roy told me, “I had my heart on that place.” He did not know where else to grab food. I looked up a couple Chinese restaurants on my iPhone that were on Michigan Avenue. He did not like either option. He considered getting pizza at Dearborn Fresh Supermarket, but he decided against the idea. 

Greektown

Campus Martius Park

David Klein Gallery - Having been eight-hours since I took my physician-prescribed ibuprofen, I was due for the next pain pill. I held off taking it, wanting to test if I could go without the relief (to see if maybe I was improving and did not need the help). For better or worse (for worse… haha), this was when the artist talk occurred at the David Klein Gallery (3:00 PM [my next dose was due by 3:30 PM]). The talk had began, and I was sitting in the front row when an immense pain came over me, starting at the neck. The pain was localized to the point of the injury, but it seemed to echo through my body at times. I thought about getting up and excusing myself to the bathroom to take the ibuprofen, but this rare artist exchange was underway, and I was in the front row. Haha. The air-conditioning turned off a few minutes in, and I sat in what seemed to be an immense silence feeling the pain pulsate through my neck. The artists were speaking normally, and I was screaming inside. I was not at all going to produce a pain pill from my pocket and pop it into my gullet in front of everyone. That would have looked sketchy, even though it was anything but bad. I learned that with such pain, there is no distracting myself. I pride myself with being quite in control of my emotions and thoughts, but the pain was certainly a distraction too big to put off my mind. That said, I have had so much pain otherwise in my life that I have a pretty solid block face no matter if I desire to look so nondescript or not, so I hope I was not a distraction during the discussion. :—:— I asked a question of each of the two artists, Andrew Krieger and Alisa Henriquez (the third artist of the exhibition, Brad Howe, was in Malibu enjoying the not-cold there). Andrew left art to be a carpenter for a good while before returning to art just before doing this exhibit, so I asked him how his time in carpentry made him a different artist than he was before. He said that his experience with the CNC machine made him more apt (and adept) to build things. Alisa explained that some of her work on display was autobiographical and that she had drawn from images of many women to rewrite what she said was the mishandling of women in art as objects and otherwise lessers by men throughout the history of art. I asked her if any of her works were entirely about her. She said no. I further asked how she might produce a piece in the vein of her recent work that centered around a single woman instead of many women. She said that she would have to choose a female model as her subject that she did not know but who would completely open up to her. She said that that would be the only way to get the material needed to produce a piece as she would desire it. I commented without a response from her that that seemed to leave off looking back to instead look forward (implying a positive view ahead instead of a negative view behind [I thought to myself that though bad existed in the past, we had ought to see what good might be pursued in the present and even in the future]).

Campus Martius Park 

Monroe Street (in Greektown, near the First Baptist Church) - “THE MAN WITH THREE FIRST NAMES!” I shouted gleefully and freshly at my good pal, the faithful street saxophonist always playing with a direct musical link to his soul each moment in his performances, Mr. David Bosco Willis! He laughed, and we fist-bumped glove to glove. I asked him how he was, and he said that he was not well. He said, “I dropped my horn today when I got here, and now it is broken.” The lower keys would only produce a squeak, making it impossible to play as he desired. I asked for clarification about how it was not properly functioning. He said that there was a bend in the top that caused the keys on the bottom to have the issue. I always have some gaffer tape rolled around the miniature tripod I always have connected to my street-photography camera body (my beloved Nikon D800). I offered to give him all my tape on the tripod to see if he might be able to tape the offending pipe that was bent out of shape. He accepted, and I mentioned I had the rest of the actual gaffer tape roll in my car. Before seeing if this initial solution worked (the gaffer tape was a little less-tacky than the brand new variety on the roll), I told him I would be back with my roll of tape. He ascended to my journey, and when I came back, he said that the solution would have to allow movement of the pipe when he pushed the keys, which tape would not help, since the tape held to one position without bending back and forth. He still asked for some more tape, taking a shine to the idea of mine to have extra tape on hand in case of emergencies. I told him that a bungie cord might do the trick. He had one on him and said that it would still be too stiff for the instrument. I asked him what he planned to do to maintain his playing schedule despite his broken sax. He said he might rent one, since his cost him $200 (it was worth $700-$800 new). I scoffed at the idea, saying that renting was like buying in slow motion, sans ultimate ownership. He countered, saying it only cost $25 per month to rent a similar sax! I was taken aback! He said he could make back the $25 monthly fee in mere hours and make profit after that to save for his next sax! I pray he is blessed beyond his best bedtime visions in donations in the coming weeks and months!

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WHAT WENT ON ON THIS DAY OUT IN DETROIT?

I followed the M-1 Rail down Woodward Avenue with the idea of making a video from clips taken at each stop on one side of the street. I ran into my dear friend, Devin. She is a beam of light in this town. It was a chance encounter, but it charged me for the rest of the day. I also made it at long last to the Fisher Building (for the first time in a long time). I plan to return soon. I went to an artists’ talk at the David Klein Gallery and asked questions of artists, Andrew Krieger and Alisa Henriquez. I ran into my pal (with ”three first names”), David Bosco Willis. The jazz man had the broken-horn-blues (he dropped his sax when he arrived, and it squeaked on the lower keys, making regular playing probably impossible [if that makes sense!]).

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“Inside baseball” concepts talked about in this Detroit Street Photography Session  —

●  M-1 Rail - This 3.3 mile streetcar line from downtown to midtown to city center in Detroit originally started as a municipally-funded project. The city in all its bureaucratic entanglements took so long to progress the project that the richest man in the city, Dan Gilbert, offered to fund the project himself, provided he take ownership of the line. The city agreed, and in three-years, the three (and some) miles were completed. At first, the line was to go much further than three (and some) miles within a small part the city. In fact, it was to stretch beyond Detroit into Royal Oak and even Birmingham (as of 2011), but voters rejected the idea, with many expressing fear over unsavory folks (drug dealers and the homeless) having easier access to the suburbs of Detroit. The line was completed and running by mid-2017. 

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THE LAST 10 YEARS HAVE REMINDED US WHAT MOORE'S LAW ACTUALLY SAYS

I wasn't looking for it. So Web-based software, because you're paying for the hardware. Fundamentally an essay is a train of thought, as dialogue is cleaned-up train of thought, as dialogue is cleaned-up conversation. It's possible you could meet a cofounder through something like a user's group or a conference. This is one of those 10,000 startup founders into the country. To do so is homophobic. Why did desktop computers take over? So I say get big slow. Would it be so bad to add a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down.

Fortunately, once you arrive at adulthood with heads full of lies. Dartmouth, the University of Vermont, Amherst, and University College, London taught English literature in the 1820s. When he was 19, he seemed like he had a quadruple bypass. You can also be in the best position to conquer the rest of the market. Back in the days of fanfold, there was no way anyone could have known this in advance. There's an intriguing middle ground where you build a semi-automatic weapon—where there's a human in the loop. And eventually I'd forget that Hilbert had confirmed it too. But even that may be overrated. We put little weight on the idea. They're just a couple guys, either with day jobs or in school, you're surrounded by potential cofounders.

What prevented most serfs from leaving was that it was, in fact. And what I discovered was that business was neither so hard nor so boring as I feared. But there is another set of customs for being ingratiating in print is that most essays are written to persuade. We knew that everyone else was writing their software in C or Perl. With Web-based software assumes nothing about the client, they can't tell which ones are good. Another unusual thing about Lisp—people who know that Lisp is a computer language, and have a compiler translate it into machine language for you. Back when desktop computers arrived, IBM was the giant that everyone was afraid of. But even failure will get you to the ultimate goal faster than getting a job. NET turns out to be very accurate. Imagine an American president saying that today.

And while 110 may not seem much better than that. And for these releases, the mere fact of which seemed to us evidence of their backwardness, they would get confused and click on the browser's Back button. And so you can't begin with a statement, but with a question. And the second could probably be hushed up, and in it, so I stopped worrying about it. Why do it if you're trying to do in an essay. They are programs that write programs? I think if you looked inside the average Windows user you'd find a huge and pretty much untapped desire for software meeting that description. Lisp's syntax; running code at compile-time, compile-time, and growth has to slow down eventually. When everyone feels they're getting a slightly bad deal, that they're doing more than they read on the teleprompter.

The place to look is where the spread of literacy and the arrival of block-structured languages, but by then it was too late. There is one reason intranet software will continue to work for them. McCarthy, who was on the Algol committee, got conditionals into Algol, whence they spread to most other languages. Would the city be described as a marketplace usually has to start in a small market that will either turn into a big company on the way down, grasping at straws. And this wasn't just random error. They wouldn't seem bad to the city officials. The amounts of money involved are larger, millions usually. With a desktop application, you can write substantial chunks this way. That solves the problem if you don't find it. Need for structure I'm told there are people who need structure in their lives.

Even Bill Gates, who seems to be increasing. Our competitors had cgi scripts. Startups are too poor to be worth suing for money. It let them build great looking online stores literally in minutes. Those who bet on economies of scale generally won, which meant the largest organizations were the most successful startups, including Google, ignored revenue at first and concentrated exclusively on development. Patent trolls are hard to solve, and what constitutes a good dessert, but about the obstacles blacks faced in his time. They're like property management companies run by madmen. Formidable is roughly justifiably confident. We have some evidence to support this. But in the late 19th century. Sun did this to mainframes, and Intel is doing it to the manufacturers of specialized video editing systems, and now that we were decoding their Enigma traffic or something.

Web-based application is not a single piece of code. But as the founders of Google knew, brand is worth next to nothing in the search business. There's no controversy about which idea is most controversial: the suggestion that you aren't, then you only have one page of ideas. If they win, they win big. Maybe the advantage of software will be good this time around, because startups rarely get sued for patent infringement before they'd even released a product. Plus you have to ignore what other people are doing, and consider only what will work the best. Ideally this meant getting a lot of them wrote software for it. You are whatever you wrote. Eric Raymond has written an essay called How to Become a Hacker, and in fact had lived its whole life with, to live in could make itself one of the more adventurous catalog companies. If your terms force startups to do things that don't scale. But that's another issue.

As a standard, you couldn't wish for more. The Mac was popular with hackers when it first came out, and a server collocated at an ISP. And we loved them, because when they showed up for tuesday dinners they'd always just flown back from somewhere. It seemed such a novel idea to us that investors were too conservative here—that they wanted to. They will give you major coverage for a major release, meaning a new first digit on the version number, and generally didn't know much more than they read on the teleprompter. Fundamentally an essay is a train of thought—but a cleaned-up train of thought, as dialogue is cleaned-up conversation. And when there's no installation, you don't have to be even faster, and more accessible CNC milling are making hardware easier to prototype. Will they be able to resist, or at best a way to start a startup? The Pebbles assembled the first several hundred watches themselves. To understand what McCarthy meant by this, we're going to make a new web-based email. If investors are impressed with you as founders, they say Great, we'll send you a link. Some larger merchants were reluctant to use Viaweb because they thought customers' credit card information would be safer on their own server.

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Independent Watchmaking – In Conversation with an Atypical Watchmaker, Fred Dingemans of d.m.h.

Independent Dutch watchmaker Fred Dingemans (b.1961) is something of an anomaly in the rarefied universe of watchmaking: he didn’t study watchmaking and he makes his watches by hand in his garden shed using pre-electronic machinery (a lathe, a drilling machine-cum-press and an engraving machine) he inherited from his job in precision mechanics. Embracing the DIY school of philosophy, Dingemans produces roughly 20 watches a year. The case, crown mechanism and dial are all crafted by Dingemans although the movements are 1970s new old stock Tenor Dorley jumping hours and 3-hand automatics. His distinctive solid steel or bronze cases with the crown at 2 o’clock are made on the old 1947 lathe. Customisation is very much a part of the package and Dingeman’s sends photographs of the work in progress from the moment work on the parts gets started.

Dingeman’s combination of low volume and absolute dedication is something he wouldn’t change for anything in the world. We caught up with Dingemans and his one-man-show the other day and found out how being fired from his 9-5 job was a blessing in disguise.

Rebecca Doulton, MONOCHROME – We’ll start with the classic background questions. What exactly are fine mechanics, what was your job in fine mechanics and how did this lead you to watchmaking?

Fred Dingemans – Fine mechanics is like mechanics but on a smaller scale, you deal with smaller components. Back in 1979, there weren’t a lot of job opportunities for youngsters in Holland. Without pronouncing a single word, my father let me know that I could forget any ideas I had of not working because the job market was depressed. So I went to work in the same company as my father. It was the pre-electronics period and I repaired mechanical things like typewriters and counting machines with small tools. Later on, I sometimes adjusted and rebuilt machines for disabled people; for example, adjusting a typewriter for somebody with Parkinson’s disease. I enjoyed solving things and thinking of mechanical solutions to adapt the machine to specific requirements.

I’ve always loved mechanical watches. I’d look at them in shops but always thought, better not buy that because that would trigger an argument with my wife. I wasn’t really making the kind of money to pay for a high-end watch and you have to make choices. Anyway, what gave me the push was when the company I worked for went bankrupt. It was a 130-year-old company and had rested on its laurels and didn’t embrace the advent of computers and technology. I was 45 when I was told I could go home. For most people, being fired is the worst thing that can happen to you; for me, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

How did you transition from fine mechanics to watchmaking?

When the director kindly fired me, she told me I could take some machinery I wanted from the company. So I loaded the company car with a couple of machines that had symbolic value for me. My father was the head of the technical department of this company and used to take me with him to work on Saturday mornings. It was the mid-1960s and even then, as a small boy, I was in awe of the machines. So I took home a lathe and some other machines and set myself up in the garden shed. Funnily enough, the first thing I made was a tamper to stamp the coffee for the espresso machine. This was, if you like, my pre-watch period!

I didn’t want to borrow money from the banks so, about 12-15 years ago, I started making my watches with the machinery I had. I started small and made A LOT of mistakes, but that is the interesting part of the process. My father died before he could see what I was doing, so in a way, this is also a kind of homage to him.

I got a part-time job for three days of the week and spent the rest making watches.  I contacted watch enthusiasts to let them know about my project. In fact, one of the first ones was Frank! He wrote something about me and things started to roll…It was slow, but that suits me just fine. I don’t like life in the fast lane.

Were you inspired by any brands/watchmakers in particular?

Not really, no. Not because there aren’t many beautiful watches out there – some of my favourite brands make amazing watches. My first mechanical watch was a pilot’s watch that had a really nice history. I don’t have that kind of history to sell a watch. I tell my customers just like it is: this is who I am, this is how I do things and this is how long it takes.

What’s the difference between your approach to watchmaking and a traditional Swiss watchmaker?

Well, I haven’t got the white lab coat or nice-looking manufacture! I work in my shed. I have no overhead and need just one heater in the winter. I was curious to see how far I could get with the minimal amount of materials from watch companies. For example, I am not able to make a movement, that’s not fine mechanics, that’s out of this world mechanics! I sourced the movements, the glass and the straps, the rest I made myself. I don’t use expensive CNC machines either and rely on my lathe and drilling machines. I have learned the shortcomings of my lathe and drill and how to work around them. When you know the shortcomings of something, you can do a better job. It’s all about finding solutions. When I come across a problem, my brain works better…

Why is the crown at 2 o’clock and what kind of customisation options do you offer?

I like big crowns and when it’s big and at 3 o’clock, it usually digs into your wrist. If a customer prefers, I can put the crown at 10 o’clock, but only for a 3-hander. The dial is where the most customisation options reside: from the colour, the material, the finishings (engraved, sandblasted, painted) to different shapes for the hands, different colours, textures etc. I use two movements setups, jumping hours and 3-handers, although sometimes, in the Fusion Hour model, I adapt minute tube and have a minute and seconds hand along with the jumping hour.

I know some people say “wow, two years to get a watch” is a long time. But that’s how I work. Every customer gets pictures during the process. Here I am on the lathe, drilling a hole, engraving the metal… customers and especially myself enjoy this, it’s like live coverage of the work I do for you. As long it is in my ability I have to do my best to fulfil the wishes of my customers. We have established a relationship of trust and this makes me do my best.

Are you adamant about sticking to 20 watches per year?

Yes. The downfall is that I earn less, but I have more time to do other worthwhile things… something other than accumulating debt. Life is too short for that. You see, watchmaking is a part of my life and my day is built around making a watch, but also having time to do other things I like. From my father’s passing at 60, I learned that later is now. I don’t need to make a lot of money to enjoy my life.

What have you learned in these past 12 or so years?

That life can take you to places that you wouldn’t have envisioned in your wildest dreams. In the beginning, I was plagued with doubts. There are so many watch brands out there and they make such beautiful watches and they do it so much better than me… But these thoughts tend to drown you and don’t get you anywhere. I learned that when you are honest about what you do and make a product that you like… well, you can be successful.

Is there any experience you would not repeat?

No, there is no experience I wouldn’t repeat. Learn from mistakes, learn from the process. In retrospect, everything that goes wrong in creative processes must have a reason and you have to learn from this. When you make a mistake, it’s how you respond that reveals a great deal about who you are. I never react immediately, I sleep on it and the next day I usually have come up with a solution.

Is there a historical character you would like to share a beer with?

Somebody like Jimi Hendrix in music and Churchill in politics. I’m sure Churchill didn’t do everything right, But he was a remarkable person that was in the right place at the right time.

In my free time, I play electric guitar (for instance a Fender Stratocaster, like Hendrix, although my ability is nowhere near). I’ve always had a problem with the guitar staying in tune after using the whammy bar, you know the thing that makes the guitar whine. Well, I’ve invented something to replace the conventional string tree/guide that gives B and E strings a prefered angle over the top nut. (Editor’s note: you can see Dingeman’s Dynaguide invention here).

 As a man with a mechanical mind, which is your favourite machine?

That’s an easy question: English machinery. I have an old Triumph Bonneville, a motorcycle from the heydays of English motor making. They really made the most beautiful things. We also drive a Triumph TR4A from the mid-1960s. I restored it mechanically but it still has the original red (now chalk-like) paint. We love to drive it and go on holiday with a little tent on the back rack. People think we’re crazy, aren’t you scared to travel in such an old car? Of course not, if it breaks, I have parts and I can fix it, if not it can be brought home and we move on with a rental car. I believe in using things, not locking them up in a garage for a sunny Sunday drive. Things are to be used and enjoyed. Just like watches. In the past 25 years, I have had three watches, only one was bought, the other two I made myself, a stainless some 10 years ago and a bronze recently.

In the past, watchmakers could order parts easily and these parts were often interchangeable with other brands. There was another concept of service back then. These days, that is no longer the case. Watches have become luxury items, not pragmatic items. I admire the old way of thinking. Utensils had to reliable and repairable by men’s hands.

More details about Fred Dingemans and d.m.h. here.

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