Crokinole is played on a circular wooden board, with wooden circular disks as playing pieces.
Possible origin is Canada.
Players take turns shooting disks across the circular wooden board by flicking the disks with their fingers. Players try to land their disks in scoring regions on the board, with the highest scoring area the recessed hole in the very center of the board. Each round, each player/side alternately shoots a set number of disks (usually 12 or 8), shooting one disk each turn.
Players must position their disk on the start of each of their turns in their quadrant in front of them, touching the outer scoring ring boundary.
If there are no opponent’s disks on the board, they must aim for the center of the board.
If there is an opponent’s disk on the board, they must aim and hit an opponent’s piece first, either directly, or by a carrom shot.
The center recessed hole is worth 20 points, and disks are removed and scored at the end of the round if they land in the center hole.
Disks that are outside the outer scoring ring at the end of each shot, or are touching the outer scoring ring at the end of each shot, are removed from play for the round.
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "\""
for f in `cat "$1"` ;do echo "$f" | tr -cd "[A-HL]_[0-9]" ; echo ; done | grep -v '^$' |grep _ > /tmp/parsons
let count=0
for f in `cat /tmp/parsons| tr -cd "[A-HL] \n"` ;do
if [ "$f" = "LG" ] ; then g=0; fi
if [ "$f" = "LA" ] ; then g=1; fi
if [ "$f" = "B" ] ; then g=2; fi
if [ "$f" = "C" ] ; then g=3; fi
if [ "$f" = "D" ] ; then g=4; fi
if [ "$f" = "E" ] ; then g=5; fi
if [ "$f" = "F" ] ; then g=6; fi
if [ "$f" = "HG" ] ; then g=7; fi
if [ "$f" = "HA" ] ; then g=8; fi
if [ $count -eq 0 ] ;then
echo -n "*";
((count++))
last=$g
else
if [ "2$g" -eq "2$last" ] ; then echo -n "r" ; fi
if [ "2$g" -lt "2$last" ] ; then echo -n "d" ; fi
if [ "2$g" -gt "2$last" ] ; then echo -n "u" ; fi
last=$g
fi
done
echo "\""
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xrandr is an official configuration utility to the RandR (Resize and Rotate) X Window System extension. It can be used to set the size, orientation or reflection of the outputs for a screen.
Someone broke my screen at a hackers event. The terminal was really hard to read with the black parts, so i tilted the screen
Broken screen in 2013
Quiet friday at work, playing with my little trusty 2530p. I’m using xmonad, so i don’t need any fancy work laptop.
Fun with distorting the screen
Another quiet friday at work, working from home, i turned all monitoring displays upside-down, sideways, or rotated them every so much seconds.
While this is a lot of fun to use, i used this to get my monitorsetups exactly the way i wanted, at home or at work. Different screen sizes, height differences .. no problem.
A fun tool to use is: https://github.com/qurn/xrandr-keystone-helper
I’ve got some old 8mm film from my father. And i wanted to digitise them. Luckily he had some projectors. One was his own and a borrowed one. Don’t know about the third one.
Not being used for 30+ years, none of them worked.
So i took them apart and tried to fix them.
Most of them had a driving belt issue, and two of them needed a new bulb.
In the end I had three working projectors. Let the digitising begin!
I started off with putting a Nikon camera beside it and selecting 24 frames/second and putting the speed dial just right .. i got a decent recording.
Tips:
Most drive belts still can be bought, sometimes you have to search for an alternative with same dimensions.
Measure the resistance of the power connector. The old transformers could have a shorted connection. (cause: dried out insulation of copper wires)
Use a pressurized can of air to clean the insides.
Keep track of the parts when disassembling. Those things are not made to be easy fixed.
Below a uncut/unaltered recording, so the media needs some cropping! I love the authentic shutter sound!
Trying to fix a computer from my computer collection.
Comx-35 (1983)
RCA 1802 CPU @ 2.8 Mhz
32K Memory
Apparenty something wrong with the graphics chip.
The COMX uses the RCA CDP1869 and CDP1870 Video Interface System (VIS), consisting of the CDP1869 address and sound generator and the CDP1870 colour video generator.
Maybe next to try : checking signals using a Logic Analyzer
Irmgard told me a week ago she liked “Sun in the stream” by Enya. I found a midi file a while ago, which i edited to get the accompaniment part only, without the melody line.
I played this after 4 times practicing, and learning to use some extra keys on the chanter while doing so.
I played the midi file on my Yamaha QY-100 sequencer.
Holes and keys on a Uilleann Pipe Chanter
Merry xmas and a happy 2018
"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
