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Manifest Telephone

https://computer.rip/2020-06-14-manifest-telephone.html

I'm not sure what the seven deadly sins of the religion of the telephone are, but I can promise that Comcast is guilty of every one.

Plain text sports

https://plaintextsports.com

Neat website created because the author was tired of waiting for ESPN to load. Really nice idea and design. Too bad sports score APIs are too expensive for more people to do this on personal sites.

Shoggoth Mini

https://www.matthieulc.com/posts/shoggoth-mini

A prototype robot tentacle that responds to speech. My kids think it's very funny!

When choosing cleaners, it helps to know your chemistry

https://news.engineering.pitt.edu/when-choosing-cleaners-it-helps-to-know-your-chemistry/

Some nice, chemistry focused info about cleaners from the COVID lockdown era.

ArUco: Camera position detection using square markers

https://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/ava/portfolio/aruco/

ArUco is a library using OpenCV (see at the OpenCV website here) that allows one to detect QRCode-like markers and estimate their or the camera's location in space.

A related project, UcoSLAM, does simultaneous location and mapping.

Light bulb shape and size chart

https://www.bulbs.com/learning/shapesandsizes.aspx

Chart for shape and size of light bulbs. A19 is the standard size.

They also have a base chart here. Medium/26mm/E26 is the standard one that goes with A19.

light bulb chart