November 04, 2010
links for 2010-11-04
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Lots of useful calculators and other info to help out with PCB design.
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A good list of the Mechanical Turk-like services springing up to let people do micro-tasks in exchange for cash.
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An in-depth interview with Jane Jacobs which covers quite a lot (it seems) of her ideas and opinions on bottom-up city regeneration. I really need to find the time to read some of her books.
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Good list of alternatives to PCBCart.com (who I'm pretty happy with so far, but it's good to know what else is out there).
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A good explanation of how to organise groups and the differing roles that people need to take within them in order to get things done.
"They’re not in any particular order here. No one person did all of these throughout, they can be passed from person to person and sometimes more than one person needed to take the role on at a time. Also the names don’t matter, I’m not aiming to create anything special or precious here, just trying to explore the ideas."
Could be useful when introducing people to electronics at Howduinos.
I'm often building power circuits of one form or another, and it would be nice to make them switched-mode as that's more efficient. However, it's also more complicated. Hopefully this will help demystify things.
Maps, and a searchable directory of people from the Scottie Road area of Liverpool (including my grandparents) from just before the slum clearances of the 1960s.
Huge collection of photos of Georgian/Regency housing stock in Liverpool, and not all taken round the Georgian Quarter.
An interesting look at distance and why we should maybe resist attempts to compress it.
“You’re charged VAT to repair old buildings, and you’re charged zero VAT to build new ones, or to build new estates on greenfield sites. That’s absolutely bonkers, and everybody knows it in the building industry, we’re just all keeping quiet about it."Is anyone campaigning to get this fixed? Seems like a stupid state of affairs to me...
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