Dorothea Mackellar: “My Country”
February 24, 2021
The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies I know, but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain […]
Sailing tips
February 24, 2021
Do not launch an A class catamaran singlehandedly in an area with 10 knots ONSHORE breeze. Bad things will happen. Rudders need deep water. Beach rollers are out of reach. You will need to stand in deeper water. Boat is difficult to control and has tendency to either take off by itself or plough into […]
Sailing rules
February 21, 2021
Summary “Is there any Red Port Left ?“ The boat that is on a starboard tack (= sails are out to port) has right of way over boat on port tack (sails are out to starboard). (Overlapped on same tack) Windward (= upwind) boat must stay clear of leeward (= downwind) boat at all times. […]
A Class catamaran – rigging
February 14, 2021
An A class catamaran has: Mast rotation Outhaul Downhaul Mainsheet Mast rotation There is a 30cm long horizontal stainless steel ‘arm’ on the bottom of the mast that has a rope connected underneath the trampoline cleated on top of each hull. The idea is to restrict the mast from over rotating when sailing upwind. When […]
Spherical V1
February 5, 2021
Thank you masterxeon1001 ! https://www.youtube.com/user/masterxeon1001/videos Buy masterxeon1001 a beer! https://gumroad.com/masterxeon1001 (click on the Donate Box, enter an amount and pay using Paypal) Requirements Blender 2.8.x / 2.9.x Get it here: https://builder.blender.org/download HardOps BoxCutter Get it here: https://blendermarket.com or https://gumroad.com Source Files SphericalV1_001.blend SphericalV1_002.blend Renders Notes Cube Spherecast (adds SubDiv level 4 + Cast as Sphere). You can untick ‘Optimal […]
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
January 25, 2021
Now, I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Your faith was strong but you needed […]
BigFont
January 18, 2021
( Github: https://github.com/telleropnul/ ) BigFont is a series of Arduino libraries to display large text on a character LCD display. How to use To use the library: Start the Arduino editor Tools > Manage Libraries… Search for “bigfont” and make your selection. Libraries are installed in the following location by default: C:\Users\…..\Documents\Arduino\libraries\ Example sketches are […]
ESP8266 ESP-12E big digits NTP clock with date, time, temperature, humidity, pressure (barometer)
January 13, 2021
ESP32 vs ESP12 boards ESP32 boards are more powerful and come with interesting onboard features. ESP32 boards are slightly more expensive and may differ between the different flavours: ESP32 boards (Wemos D1 mini, AiThinker) ESP32 TTGO LoRa32 SX1276 OLED ESP32 TTGO T-Camera with PIR sensor and OLED display (and microphone). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP32 For our needs the […]
Cannister V1
January 11, 2021
Thank you masterxeon1001 ! https://www.youtube.com/user/masterxeon1001/videos Buy masterxeon1001 a beer! https://gumroad.com/masterxeon1001 (click on the Donate Box, enter an amount and pay using Paypal) Requirements Blender 2.8.x / 2.9.x Get it here: https://builder.blender.org/download HardOps BoxCutter Get it here: https://blendermarket.com or https://gumroad.com Source Files cannisterV1_001.blend Render Notes Start with a cube. Scale to a vertical thin panel. Decorate. Dice. Twist360 Z 3. […]