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Sphinx Curatrix
The personal blog of a libertarian, pagan, librarian and geek. Expect musings on pop culture, gender, and intellectual freedom along with general silliness and pretty art.
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I Turn 31 Today!
And I’m just getting started
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The Embroidered Computer
Artists Irene Posch & Ebru Kurbak have built The Embroidered Computer, a programmable 8-bit computer made using traditional embroidery techniques and materials.
Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, and being inspired by traditional crafting routines and patterns, the piece questions the appearance of current digital and electronic technologies surrounding us, as well as our interaction with them.
Technically, the piece consists of (textile) relays, similar to early computers before the invention of semiconductors. Visually, the gold materials, here used for their conductive properties, arranged into specific patterns to fulfill electronic functions, dominate the work. Traditionally purely decorative, their pattern here defines they function. They lay bare core digital routines usually hidden in black boxes. Users are invited to interact with the piece in programming the textile to compute for them.
The piece also slyly references the connection between the early history of computing and the textile industry.
When British mathematician Charles Babbage released his plans for the Analytical Engine, widely considered the first modern computer design, fellow mathematician Ada Lovelace is famously quoted as saying that ‘the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.’
The Jacquard loom is often considered a predecessor to the modern computer because it uses a binary system to store information that can be read by the loom and reproduced many times over.
See also Posch’s & Kurbak’s The Knitted Radio, a sweater that functions as an FM radio transmitter.
(Source: jkottke)
8PM with 26,547 notes
Me practicing this housewife thing for when I drop out of uni
Hey so I just feel the need to add this. NEVER deep fry in a shallow pot. What happened here is this person put frozen fries in hot oil, and the hot oil will nearly double in size when you drop something cold in it. Then it overflows out of the pot and you have a grease fire. You should never have oil more than about a third of the way up the pot.
Reblogging because even I didn’t officially know this.
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Lilac Winter aesthetic
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fluerallinmylis asked: Auntie, There is a pro coding course (LaunchCode) being offered at my local Comm College. I have applied for it but was wondering, seeing as you are an amazing Tech Witch Queen, if you had any advice for someone trying to enter the field?
Keep in mind I am somewhat … cynical about the field nowadays.
- Remember that code is subject to fashion whims - whatever coding language is being used now will fall out of favor. Be prepared for this.
- See if there’s a course about Agile methodology. If you want to be super-awesome, also take a course on writing documentation.
- Every tech project will swear there’s a terminology list, and that everyone is using the same terms to mean the same things. This is a hopeful lie.
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