Category: Tech
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Good News Everyone!
After thorough investigations I believe to have solved the last mechanical challenges to make full control of the typewriter feasible. (in the least invasive / visual way) cartridge return can be done by rolling up a string around the corner and released after it is done OR a motor with gears right behind it and raising…
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Typewriter to Printer Conversion
Earlier this year I got myself a typewriter. I was on my way home and spotted this beauty at the local second hand / old / random things store. The owner told me he wants just 50$ for it since it was broken. Challenge accepted. 50$ later I found myself schlepping this very heavy piece…
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How to trade in a bad habit for a good one!
Why aren’t you using the triggers that make you fall into a bad habit, to start a good habit, instead? Have fruit instead of coffee. An apple instead of a smoke. Your brain is a super automator. Decisions you often make, become automatic. Let’s call them habits. Some times when you believe you are still…
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Get your ideas to flow into execution
Ideas just happen to me, that’s pretty easy going. Making them actually happen, by executing them, is the difficult part. That’s why we are working on myopenideas.com. Ideas seem to be liquid, they have a “flow” and are constantly iterating while working on the execution. To help with that process, we designed the “Ideaflow”: After…
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rehabit.me helps you get back in control of your habits!
rehabit.me is a web app that helps young adults & professionals seeking new lifestyle habits, stay committed to goals through short-term challenges. We combine peer pressure with accountability via self tracking, plus the added ass kicking from friends who bet against the player by pledging money to charity in exchange for the possibility of seeing…
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Back in the days we built a robot, meet “Sir Random”
In 2004, the first www.robotchallenge.org happend at our school (HTL Spengergasse). The robot we built to compete should be able to go around obstacles and find the beacon at the end of the competition track. Considering the preciseness of the robots decisions, the name “Sir Random” seemed perfect. As the latest Robot Challenge just happened…
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My application for Oxford is on its way…
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WordPress Update to v 2.7
Many improvements to usability in the backend / administration interface make blogging easier and faster. Further more upgrading to new versions is now an integrated feature and you dont have to manually fiddle around with FTP directories anylonger. Thanks guys! More Information, with video, online at WordPress!
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Refurbishment
Due to a module I attend at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Wien, I got motivated to blog more often. There is of course enough going on to blog about but somehow I just did not have the motivation within the last weeks. With the new theme and the new wordpress version I…