THE NARDIAH WALL – thousand-section fortress in the fabric of space-time itself…

Last remaining relic of a long-dead aetheric empire, constructed at its farthest frontier to confound forgotten foes.

Now, although some primitive defences remain, astral-dreaming jumpers – the deft – gather to race along its ruined walkways.

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Having had various friends ask me to how to get started with programming, but through circumstance never having had the opportunity to sit down with them and teach them one-to-one, I’ve looked around at various times for a tutorial series that teaches like I would.

Not having been able to find one, I’ve finally got round to writing my own, over at the Bendoverclocking forums.

Godlike Coding is a zero-to-hero series that takes you from rank beginner through to demo effects and games programming. I try and teach code in the same way I would if I was sitting beside you at your PC — which means lively, irreverent, and at times mildly offensive. It’s up to 24 episodes over 3 volumes so far, with my intrepid learners producing some awesome assignment output.

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Kicking off 2010, here’s a new release of Basilar, my C# procedural city-building from-web-pages experiment.

Read on for more pretty pics, video, and binary/source download.

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A coroplast 38″ wingspan delta wing slope soarer for 2-channel elevon control.

Read on for more pics, and all the tasty links you need to make your own.
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Not yer granddad’s RC plane construction. Lithium-polymer batteries and brushless electric motors mean no more noise or messy fuel and allow really miniature construction.

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This is a fun little project I finished a few evenings ago; a homebrew 500x digital microscope for all your biohacking needs, made from an old webcam found in the trusty junk box.

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This was a couple of years ago. I never got round to posting it here at the time and the video’s a bit rubbish. It’s much prettier in real life! But seeing as I’m going through the backlog, why not. For some reason the camera would only capture half the streamers – it would be fine half a second, then go streamer-blind for half a second. Likewise it would only show the lighting of the flourescent tube at 2:01 intermittedly, although it was lit constantly. Very wierd. Quantum effects?

Hmm, that topload’s none too impressive either.

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