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Q: "How did you get started on computer programming?"
A: "Three days after Christmas, I dropped all of my Christmas presents and followed a link from the n00b Skill to MIT's programming website, Scratch...it really got me started and then I got into Khan Academy and from there I learned Javascript!" -FuzzyBelly
Earn the n00b skill on DIY!
The man who turned his home into a public library
"The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want - even permanently. As Guanlao says: ‘The only rule is that there are no rules.’
It’s a policy you might assume would end very quickly - with Guanlao having no books at all.
But in fact, in the 12 years he’s been running his library - or, in his words, his book club - he’s found that his collection has grown rather than diminished, as more and more people donate to the cause.
'You don't do justice to these books if you put them in a cabinet or a box,' he says.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19547365 (via @filamthropy)
Today, February 12, is Darwin Day, the 206th anniversary of the famed naturalist’s birth!
Surprisingly, we may have Charles Darwin’s children to thank for the surviving handwritten pages of the naturalist’s “On the Origin of Species” manuscript. Most of the original 600 pages are...
#TBT to transforming scrap into treasure in Dolores Park, San Francisco.
The epitome of a sibling relationship encapsulated in this comment thread between two sisters.
Quadcopters and the revival of the RC Enthusiast
Quadcopters are the latest craze in RC technology. One day, these machines may take the place of cargo planes and delivery trucks, eventually flying over your doorstep to drop off DIY patches. The technology is already there, and companies like Amazon, UPS and FedEx are exploring their own autonomous delivery systems. FCC rules and red tape notwithstanding, kids that are adept at flying RC quadcopters today may be the ones designing these delivery systems tomorrow.
There’s been a revival of RC hobbies as the cost of building RC devices has plummeted and the curiosity for quadcopters has surged. This is one of the many reasons why RCer is the latest skill on DIY. Aside from the fact that attaching a camera and flying a thing around is really cool, building your own RC focuses on a broad range of skills – from mechanics, to technology, and even artistry.
Although these are rich subjects on their own, when combined, they complement each other superbly. Building an RC car, boat or quadcopter allows you to experiment with complex systems on a small scale, which is a great jumping off point before scaling up to actual cars and helicopters.
The process of building your first remote controlled anything - figuring out it’s mechanics, gears, sanding it down, and the comradery experienced in a flying range are some of the most awesome memories a lot of us cherished as a kid. Now, it’s possible to take that same experience and also take a video 200 feet in the air.
Check out the latest RC Skill on DIY.
It's Okay To "Fail"
One of the most rewarding things to see in our community is when kids find humor in the things they’ve “failed” at.
We’re all familiar with the chatter on Youtube videos and the comments range from the mundane to the hilarious and to the often times, rude and insulting. It’s the nature of the internet and the anonymity that the internet provides that lets trolls say rude things without fear of any consequences. We get a fair amount of trolling on our site but we're proud to say that the comments that fellow users leave on projects are filled with insights, encouragement, and praise. We’re proud to be able to help build a community that fosters such young, bright, and creative people.
We're proud of this DIYer's wall of Skills earned.
Program Manager Mamie Rheingold interviews 4 young coding members of DIY.org, an online community for kids to "learn skills, discover cool projects and meet other awesome kids!" Hear their stories of why and how they learned to code and get inspired to teach programming to young adults in your community.
DIYer Lava Shoes just chilling in his backyard farm with a cup of tea.
Along with the creative implications, playing with LEGO® bricks also helps with understanding spatial concepts. Get started on these 17 projects and become a LEGO® Master.
a concept for a visual langugage. this has yet to be made. i’ve done part 1 of the study and i’ve roughed-in a visual dictionary for each phoneme, but phoneme recognition libraries are actually pretty clumsy, so no progress on implementation has been made. speech recognition is only successful because of inferences to words, but phonemes alone are a crapshoot.
"Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it’s always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it’s startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are ‘We’re number two!’"
From one of my favorite writers/comedians today, David Sedaris.
Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara
Having a Coke with You
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully as the horse
it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it
by Frank O’Hara
