I've forgotten more about javascript frameworks than most people learned about. Most frameworks were working around shortcomings of HTML and javascript at that time. Web components are a set of tools to remove a lot of those shortcomings, so let's take a look at them.
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#Webcomponents #Custom-Elements #Js #Shadow-Dom
Technology moves on. And my website fell behind. Without any visible changes, I replaced 1MB Javascript with 700 Byte, replacing jQuery Plugins with CSS.
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#Jquery #Css #Animations
Our kids are birthday-wise pretty close, and only one year apart. Wouldn't it be a great idea to combine the parties? In hindsight, it was a pretty bad idea inviting so many kids at once, but at least we build some bristlebots.
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#Make #Toy #Toothbrush #Bristlebots #Spiders #Halloween #Technology-With-Kids
There comes the moment in every's Arduino programmer life when 1 LED is not enough. As always, the next feasible step from one is 60, but controlling a set of red, green and blue LEDs to represent the 8bit color array is slightly more difficult then one would expect.
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#Make #Led-Rgb #Ws2812b #Arduino
In a desperate attempt to prove my kids our robomover is stupid we collaboratively created an indoor version with an arduino. This is when I learned that kids are too noisy for ultrasonic sensors.
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#Make #Toy #Arduino #Vehicle #Software-Development #Technology-With-Kids
When your daughter is sick, and her life seems to be in darkness, let's use tinfoil, a 3V and an LED to bring back the light
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#Toy #Led #Technology-With-Kids
How many docker containers do you need to create a picture frame for a raspberry pi? The answer is 3, obviously. With BalenaCloud, WPE and nodejs we are creating a simple random image slideshow in the most complicated and awesome way.
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#Balenacloud #Raspberry #Pictureframe #Docker #Nextcloud
There comes a moment in every local network where you have to remember 255 IP Addresses. Which is easy. The hard part is remembering what device is behind what IP. Domains can come to the rescue, and why not creating an internet without Ads while we are at it?
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#Rapberry-Pi #Pi-Hole #Nameserver #Dns #Adblock
My family produces too many videos that (for unknown reasons) we want to keep. As cloud storage is expensive at Terabyte level, and I love building things, I took an alternative approach to have my own fault safe 3TB HomeCloud at ~300EUR.
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#Make #Homecloud #Nas #Raid-1 #Odroid #Nextcloud
Sometimes, my kids expect a little more of their toys then they get. Luckily in this case, with an LED, a button, a battery and some cables, this can be fixed.
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#Make #Toy #Led #Technology-With-Kids