Not a big fan of celebrating birthdays, I was treated this year to a very nice surprise weekend in one of the most beautiful and nature rich environments of the Netherlands, the Veluwe. On the north side, just above the national park, the city of Apeldoorn is located which houses a zoo unlike any other …
My my, Retropie!
Having some new Raspberry Pi 3’s laying around in the house the idea sparked to invest some time in seeing how the state of affairs are in the retro gaming world. I vividly remember growing up in the age of Nintendo & Sega (I had a Game Gear once and it was glorious!) and the …
Reconnecting IFTTT
Last week we delivered a couple of LightSagas to some of our earliest customers. Everyone was very happy with a product we feel proud of. Work however continues and one thing that was bugging us from the start of the prototype run was the problem we have in that we would like to keep the …
Royal Burgers’ Zoo
Amidst the hoards of children and parents (often a specific kind: the ones that fart in closed exhibitions while shouting to their Oompa Loompa colored wives, lets their kids pee outside in the middle of a zoo and that think changing diapers is okay on a random bench) we visited the wonderful Burgers’ Zoo. The …
First steps: 3D printing
Exciting times are upon us as the last couple of years 3D printing has really taken off. Driven by a large enthusiasts community of makers a lot of innovation and broadly available DIY sets for building your own 3D printer have become available and while they utilize an inferior technology (FDM – Fused Deposition Modeling instead of …
Living with Atom
Sublime Text used to be my goto editor on Mac for years now, however there were some things I didn’t like about it. It is fast and works well. There are some downsides however; it’s paid software (to be fair, you can evaluate it forever if you’d want), the price however for a real license …
Testing Neo4j with Bolt
For a project I’m working on with my colleague Joost den Boer we are investigating the use of graph databases in the form of Neo4j. The current version of Neo4j is 2.3, however last christmas 3.0.0.M02 was released with one of the key features the introduction of the Bolt driver. Neo4j evolved from being available only as …
Valencia – The City
This year we decided to spend Christmas in Valencia, and having been to both the Bioparc and the L’Oceanogràfic there was of course also the city. A buzzing vibrant city that combines Spanish architecture through the ages effortless and is crowded and lively at any given hour. Valencia is Spain’s third-largest city with thriving cultural, eating …
Many small steps, one giant leap
Finally, just before the years’ end, we made the giant leap of constructing our first LightSaga clock (Technically it is the second if you count the original iteration made of wood). A lot of small steps were required to finally get to this point and we still need to assemble the other 19 out of our …
Valencia – L’Oceanogràfic
L’Oceanogràfic is the largest complex of its type in Europe with a surface of 110,000 square metres and a water capacity of a whopping 42,000,000 liters. This includes a 26,000,000 liter dolphinarium and a 7,000,000 liter ocean tank with sharks, rays and other fish. There are 45,000 animals of 500 different species including fish, mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates — …