Today i got my first Raspberry Pi!
Many followed
The first-generation Raspberry Pi Model B was released in February 2012, followed by the simpler and cheaper Model A.
Later i bought the Pi2, Pi3, Pi4 and the Zero’s
I like the little buggers! I’ve used them for many projects.
Aloha gave me a banana pi to try, and i’ve tried the orange pi.
Aparantly i already registered at the raspberry store 2012-02-14.
28 of May i got a “activation code” to order
Now (2023 .. all shops out of stock )
I designed playing pieces for a DIY made Shogi board.
Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, Xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general’s (shō 将) board game (gi 棋). Western chess is sometimes called (Seiyō Shōgi 西洋将棋 lit. ’Western Shogi’) in Japan.
Shogi was the earliest chess-related historical game to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player. This drop rule is speculated to have been invented in the 15th century and possibly connected to the practice of 15th century mercenaries switching loyalties when captured instead of being killed.
Pieces Lasercut and Laser-engraved
Final board
I’ve designed the pieces and the markings on them using Inkscape.
Instead of the Japanese characters the pieces show the allowed movements. The Circled signs are on the back of the pieces.
Board and traditional characterset
After a long pause … doing martial arts again.
I’ve studied several sports in the past, like Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Ninjitsu.
And tried a lot of other ones .. now Iaido
( Kungfu , Bojitsu, Nunchaku-do and Hojōjutsu )
Found more
Update (2022) Something i’ve been doing for years now.
Making skittle vodka.
If i remember it well, is was a students solution to get a cheap ‘fancy’ drink. Vodka is cheap, and skittles or other candy was easily obtainable.
Buy a bottle of vodka, not too cheap, but certainly not a pricy one.
Get some bag’s of kittles. (does are mixed so you have to sort them by color/taste)
Take some small bottles and fill them each with a skittle color, and fill the rest of the bottle with Vodka.
Now we wait from the skittles to dissolve completely.
Strain the dissolved foamy mixture using a paper kitchentowel into another bottle.
( i have 6 bottles, 5 for each color skittle and one to transfer one to the other )
Sometimes i’ll do it a second time, to get a clearer result.
Ready to drink
Most of the times, i take a longdrink glass, pour some skittle vodka in it add ice and fill the rest with 7-UP.
UPDATE: 2023 It’s still working
I made a webcontroller for viewing images on a big TV.
Using a Acdsee instance with MCE Controller installed and a webserver.
https://tig.github.io/mcec/example_commands.html
Rate the picture 1-5, clear rating, slideshow start, escape, open/close image, zoom-in out and zoom-reset. Previous and next image fullscreen and delete/yes
Some used defined keys (see php file)
if ($cmd=="I"){ $put="chars:+"; };
if ($cmd=="O"){ $put="chars:-"; };
if ($cmd=="R"){ $put="chars:*"; };
if ($cmd=="Y"){ $put="chars:y"; };
if ($cmd=="F"){ $put="chars:f"; };
if ($cmd=="D"){ $put="delete"; };
if ($cmd=="N"){ $put="right"; };
if ($cmd=="P"){ $put="left"; };
if ($cmd=="ENTER"){ $put="enter"; };
if ($cmd=="ESC"){ $put="escape"; };
PHP Script for the buttons and creating the TCP packets for MCE.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0.1/jquery.mobile-1.0.1.min.css" />
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.4.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0.1/jquery.mobile-1.0.1.min.js"></script>
<?php
$ip = "remoteserver";
$port = "5150";
if (empty($put)) $put = "";
if (empty($line)) $line = "";
$cmd=$_POST['cmd'];
if ($cmd=="I"){ $put="chars:+"; };
if ($cmd=="O"){ $put="chars:-"; };
if ($cmd=="R"){ $put="chars:*"; };
if ($cmd=="Y"){ $put="chars:y"; };
if ($cmd=="F"){ $put="chars:f"; };
if ($cmd=="D"){ $put="delete"; };
if ($cmd=="N"){ $put="right"; };
if ($cmd=="P"){ $put="left"; };
if ($cmd=="ENTER"){ $put="enter"; };
if ($cmd=="ESC"){ $put="escape"; };
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
$task = send_cmd("$put", $fp);
if ($cmd=="1" || $cmd=="2" || $cmd=="3" || $cmd=="4" || $cmd=="5" || $cmd=="0"){
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftdown:ctrl", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("$cmd", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftup:ctrl", $fp);
fclose($fp);
};
if ($cmd=="S") {
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftdown:alt", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("$cmd", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftup:alt", $fp);
fclose($fp);
};
if ($cmd=="fnietF"){
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftdown:shift", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftdown:ctrl", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("$cmd", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftup:ctrl", $fp);
fclose($fp);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://".$ip.":".$port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
send_cmd("shiftup:shift", $fp);
fclose($fp);
};
//}
echo "<html><head><title></title></head>";
echo "<body><center><H1>";
$callself=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
echo "<div data-role=\"controlgroup\" data-type=\"horizontal\">";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"1\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"1\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"2\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"2\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"3\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"3\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"4\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"4\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"5\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"5\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"0\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Rate Clear\" /></form>\n";
echo "</div>";
echo "<div data-role=\"controlgroup\" data-type=\"horizontal\">";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"S\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"SLIDESHOW\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"ESC\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"ESC\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"ENTER\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"OPEN/CLOSE\" /></form>\n";
fclose($fp);
echo "</div>";
echo "<div data-role=\"controlgroup\" data-type=\"horizontal\">";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"I\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"ZOOMIN\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"R\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"ZOOMRESET\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"O\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"ZOOMOUT\" /></form>\n";
echo "</div>";
echo "<div data-role=\"controlgroup\" data-type=\"horizontal\">";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"P\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"PREV\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"D\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"DEL\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"Y\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Y\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"F\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"FULL\" /></form>\n";
echo "<form data-transition=\"none\" style=\"display:inline;\" name=\"input\" action=\"$callself\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"N\"><input type=\"submit\" value=\"NEXT\" /></form>\n";
echo "</div>";
echo "</body></html>";
function send_cmd($cmd, $fp){
fwrite($fp, $cmd);
fwrite($fp, "\n");
return;
}
?>
May he rest in peace.
He was a great driving force for current pipers like: Ross Ainsley and Ali Hutton.
His music was innovate. Not alway liked by purists.
He listened a lot to Breton music, and used a lot of cross-fingering to play extra notes.
The (bad) comic about him.
See the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust at https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/
Great tunes:
Some of the tunes I play:
While we were in Zweden for several months (2011). Coline for work, and i tagged along. ( Working using VPN )
We saw a wooden xmas thingy, Coline liked it very much.
I made it myself because it was not a ‘thing’ yet in the Netherlands. Now you can buy these everywhere.
This year we did an Eastern Europe trip.
Every country left and down from Germany.
One of the countries was Romania. And we visited a lot of Castles.
So I became interested in recreating one of the scenes I saw.
It was a square medieval prison. I was captured by the natural materials being used in the displays.
Stone, wood, metal, rope and straw.
I was working on a Da Vinci model at the time. (We visited a Da Vinci exposition in Den Haag.)
I love his designs.
So I build a prison, with a straw bed. Some mini items like a water jug and a piece of bread.
Then I made some torture devices.
I found some parts recently, hopefully the rest will turn up soon.
Example of the bed (also lost .. during moving??)
While studying Iaido, i needed a flashcard study thingy.
So I made this:
So I could guess and practice the names of the moves.
Short demo here : https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/websites/takeda/index.php