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The BrewPi crew created a guide on how to convert a fridge into a Raspberry Pi and Arduino controlled fermentation chamber. (via hackaday)

We (Koen and Elco) recently converted a Koen’s fridge into a BrewPi fermentation chamber and made a lot of photos of the progress. This guide will show you various options to convert a fridge or freezer into a temperature controlled fermentation chamber for your homebrew.

It is up to you how far you want to go in hacking the fridge electronics, this guide will show you 3 options to mod your fridge:

• Option 1: Make a simple switched power cord, without hacking into the fridge electronics.
• Option 2: Make a switched power cord, but also override or remove the thermostat.
• Option 3: Rip out the thermostat and fully integrate the SSRs into your fridge (what we did).

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Ben decides to go back to a simpler time before smartphones by building a DIY basic cell phone. He uses the Adafruit FONA as the foundation of the project along with a keyboard, battery, OLED, and microcontroller. Ben programs the MCU to be the brains of his phone project. Ben get all the pieces working and shows how it will all come together in a custom case in the next episode.

Uses FONA!

IBM’s 1937 corporate songbook via BoingBoing.

…With I.B.M. machines,
We’ve got the finest means,
For brightly painting the clouds with sunshine.
—from “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine”

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Werner Herzog

Matt Fraction & David Aja's "Hawkeye" #19 told its story via American Sign Language, and as it turns out the issue was inspired by a teenage girl.

cumberbitchen221b:

scampthecorgi:

We have no idea what he’s doing…

drinking water but in a punk rock way

Submitted:

Painted inside the dome of Karlskirche, in Vienna. It’s a righteous fucking Catholic angel just straight-up torching Martin Luther’s German Bible. Marty looks pissed!

robotlyra:

drtanner:

feferipeixies:

if i ever don’t reblog this assume i’m dead

Remember that this game was supposed to be educational.

I like how this game was specifically constructed with an internal forbidden words list, but rampant profanity ended up being the LEAST of this game’s madnesses.

holla holla get $

neogeen:

A very special button for my Dragon*Con friends.

superopinionated:

ohdeargodbees:

wilwheaton:

konradwerks:

The situation is just intolerable.

There have been a lot of really insightful write-ups recently. A broader perspective—and I almost cringe to say—catch-all by Molly Crabapple left me gasping for breath. This write up, by Elizabeth Sampat giving her thoughts on an industry that’s very dear to me, delivered the final blow and left me in tears.

It’s really rare that I create from a place of grief. It’s just not how I operate. But it’s largely what I have openly felt for the last few days, and reflecting on it, it’s been there for far longer.

This quote from Elizabeth’s piece— “We should have a war memorial for all of the women we have lost to this. We should lay flowers and grieve and see our reflections in stone.”— struck a very literal chord in me.

So yeah, here it is. A place just for me where I can light a candle and remember all of the wonderful people I probably will never get the chance to meet.  Folks that have been driven away by these horrible fucks that have the audacity to think they know what gaming and community is about.

en memoriam.

I have never, in my life, been ashamed to call myself a gamer. Until now. These misogynist little shitbags are a disgrace to our community.

All of us who care about gaming need to step up and save our community, while there is still something about it that’s worth saving.

RIP women like me. This is beautiful.

I refuse to be added to or thought of as a casualty though. I can keep going. But those who couldn’t or can’t, you are missed. Your voices are missed. I hope I can help carry your memory forward and continue to say “never again”.

Until the game industry/community has active channels of support for survivors of rape and sexual assault in the industry, and mechanisms to prevent developers who commit rape and sexual assault from continuing to do that, in a way that is peaceful and brings about permanent positive change, I’m gonna have a real hard time believing shit about shit.

And this is just, like, one thing I see the deeply enmeshed communities of Game Industry and Consumers of Games (note how it’s often difficult to talk about the industry without also having to assume discussion of the community of fans) needing to address.

"Saving" or whatever is nice, but fundamental structural changes…f-fundamentally change things, and that will probably feel uncomfortable.

We know what white people (hi) and men, and especially white men, are like when they’re uncomfortable. They turn into misogynist, racist, entitled little shitbags. I don’t see that changing even if everyone sent Zoe a dollar for every word of abuse she’s received (which hey we should also do, where’s the Indiegogo to help pay for this woman’s long-term emotional health, if everyone’s so damn sorry?).

The hatred of women runs wide and deep in games, it won’t end when Zoe’s not getting harassed every day, it won’t be gone when Anita’s series is done, it wasn’t gone when I left games, it didn’t disappear when Maddy Myers stopped going to public fighting games tournaments, it didn’t go away when Jade Raymond stopped being the face of the Assassin’s Creed series (these are just the names off the top of my head, writing into the little XKit reblog window right now)

…and meanwhile FYI sexual assaults happen at and around all your fave big tent-pole gamer and game industry events, and throughout the industry all the time, because misogynist little shitbags don’t just PLAY games they also MAKE them. But who wants to report on a colleague, who *doesn’t* want to sign up for this sort of experience (but coming from your coworkers, and at work events)?

(But I’m supposed to have #1reasonwhy I’m excited a woman wants to work in that industry.)

jarulefanfiction:

mentalflossr:

Dog elected mayor of Minnesota town

another white male in charge

nltm:

megaklefki:

giantbomblr:

nltm:

hall of fame

In case anyone wanted some new games writers to follow, someone was kind enough to make this handy-dandy guide!

Do any of them have Tumblrs?

Jeff Gerstmann, Brad Shoemaker, Patrick Klepek, and Alex Navarro do. Dunno about the rest. You should probably follow Zoe Quinn too, considering how this all started.

ha ha stillgray

theoppositeofsane:

youngblackandvegan:

kyleehenke:

I cannot be stopped

this is the most important video i’ve ever seen

This is a spiritual experience.

Hyrule Warriors is Dynasty Warriors with a Zelda coat of paint and nothing more.

Double Fine decided to nix menopause in female characters and make the sexes equally capable for reproduction despite their age.

Autistic brother identifies with Drax and tells everyone how people with autism can be superheroes too. (via Imgur)

The amount of Colorado marijuana being seized en route to other states through the U.S. mail has more than quadrupled since 2010 and was destined for more states than before, according to a new report by a federally funded drug task force.

The DRM has been broken by two of Keurig's competitors: Treehouse and Realcup. The law that makes it illegal to break DRM limits itself to "circumventing effective means of access control" to copyrighted works, and coffee pods are not copyrighted works.

This novel was generated with 165 lines of Python code, all of which were written by the author in about four hours on November 27, 2013. The only external data source that is used in the generation process is the computer’s time zone database. The source code is available under a free software license at http://nickm.com/code; anyone is welcome to use that code to generate their own novel or for any other purpose. World Clock was generated as part of the first "NaNoGenMo" or National Novel Generation Month, which was declared on Twitter this year as a response to, and alternative to, the better-known NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

"Hi, my name is Giopi," states the game's intro. "I'm one of the GOP's best volunteers for the 2014 midterms, and I'm here to show you how we can win back the Senate! There is going to be a lot of red tape and regulations in our way, but we need to overcome them in order to succeed."

I think some of this belief in corruption and nepotism is misogyny. Gaming is a business, and in any business, people don't all get to the top, win influence, or get their project greenlit because their work is the best. They get there by hook or by crook. Men can commodify representations of female sexuality to sell inferior games, and that's making an honest buck, but if some women get to the top by commodifying their own sexuality, that's corruption? Fuck that.

Basically, this person figures out how to smuggle illicit cargo by becoming functionally invisible to security outside various stations. Normally if you're carrying anything illegal when you try to dock at a station, you get angry-hornet-swarmed by guard ships and blown to spacely smithereens. This pilot, however, had an idea: they decided to go in completely undetectable, even though it meant they couldn't really control their ship. Shields and engines off. Only inertia and freezing black nothing to guide them. Their ship's windows ice over as the vacuum looms, cold creeping, constricting like a fist, in heat's complete absence.

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oznoglog:

Wow, so much coming up at once that I’m excited about:

• Redemption, Silent Spirits’ brilliant military sci-fi setting and system, which I’ve been editing and laying out and is so almost done
• The forthcoming Veranthea Codex Kickstarter for a massive and massively cool new Pathfinder setting from Mike Myler and Rogue Genius Games that I’m hyped to be involved with
• The Strange Magic Kickstarter by Interjection Games, bringing three awesome and creative magic systems to Pathfinder that I’m also hyped to be involved with
• A huge milestone for me that should be official in November, about two or three years earlier than I thought I’d achieve it

What a wacky and exciting year. Hell, most of this has been in the last two months!

I’ll follow up with more details soon, but dang. I’ve got a lot to be grateful for right now, and a lot to look forward to.

Seriously, this is crazy. My mind is steady blown that any of this is happening.