New project: CloCkWeRX/ninja-thing

CloCkWeRX/ninja-thing

By CloCkWeRX



Send temperature and humidity data from Ninja Blocks to The Thing System via TSRP



May 27, 2014 at 2:36AM

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Strava + OpenStreetMap

Strava's 'slide' plugin and GPS heatmap is pretty neat. I've been using it to find roads or walking paths in forest areas with good success.

If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, there's a really neat talk about detecting paths based on averaged GPS traces, which no doubt could generally apply to a lot of drawing or tracing that humans have to undertake.

OpenStreetMap and Keepright: Fixing all of the redaction errors in Melbourne

The OSM license change that lead to redaction (here's a decent animation of the automated reverts) happened well over two years ago now; and a lot of remapping has taken place.

Unfortunately, humans aren't as good as some of the QA tools we have available, and that means a lot of valuable mapping is left untagged.

Keepright has been helping me find all of the untagged ways in Adelaide and Melbourne; both cities are now effectively 'clean'. Anything where the last edit was the redaction bot usually only needs a few tags or to be deleted if it's a duplicate.

I'd encourage any other mappers who feel their area is 'complete' to view it through a tool like Keepright - even if you pick as few as 5-10 errors to fix, you can make a big impact.

Sugru, to fix my leaking taps

I've had some Sugru for a while, but I'll be honest, apart from custom fit headphones the applications for it have been a bit limited.

I did however have a relentlessly leaking tap; that had resisted no less than 3 sets of washers, including ones supplied by a plumber. In the end Sugru worked extremely well to fix it: the tap now turns 'off' with minimal effort, does not drip, etc.

Given the size and shape of the washer plus the opening it had to seal, it was just a matter of putting ~3-4 extra mm of depth on some cheap washers, curing, and letting the tap itself 'cut' the sugru to size by turning it fully off - the edge of the seat acted like a cookie cutter.

Since the majority of sugru is just sillicon, this fix should be fairly stable for the life of the tap - it acts as a plug or cork, rather than a 'lid' like a standard washer might.