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EN - Engineering / Design, EN - English, EN - Projects

Bed Table Project


Hi there,

I am working on a Bed Table Project for 140mm wide beds.
I have looked for such a table for a little while, but all models that I have found so far are too narrow and you can use them only on one side of the bed, but not in the middle. Reason is that the legs are not large enough for the table to be set in the middle of the bed.

I have worked on two different models. The first one is a table that you can put directly on the bed, see pic:
Support PC de lit v1

The second one is a more traditional model, and I haven’t decided anything yet:
Support PC de lit v2

The design is a rough first version, as a proof of concept. I will get much more into details when I have chosen between the two. Feel free to drop a comment to help me decide which one I should build and why.
That’s all for now.
Take care.
Pascal

 

FR - Engineering / Design, FR - Français, FR - Réalisations - Projets, FR - Sport, FR - Voyages

Roue Electrique. Consignes de Sécurité.


(in french)

Salut,
Je roule depuis 10 jours avec une roue électrique (ou E-Wheel ou SBU pour Self-Balanced Unicycle ou EU pour Electric Unicycle), bref…
Franchement, pour le moment, c’est que du bonheur, et j’espere pouvoir bien en profiter maintenant que les beaux jours arrivent. A ce propos, je travaille actuellement sur un compte-rendu détaillé, et aussi un film original, assez différent de ce que l’on a pu voir jusqu’à présent sur le net.

Petit bémol à tout ça, avec mon job de prof, je croise des centaines d’élèves tous les jours, et je voudrais être sur d’avoir bien été entendu et compris sur le sujet de la sécurité pour un tel engin. En effet, et contrairement aux petits overboards que l’on voit partout, les E-Wheels ne sont pas DU TOUT recommandées pour les mineurs, ni sur la voie publique, ni sur les trottoirs. Je vous propose donc une petite note de sécurité synthétique ci-dessous pour celles et ceux qui sont intéressé(e)s par le sujet.

E-Wheel: Avertissement pour les enfants et ados!
Ce genre de monocycle intelligent, automatisé et auto-équilibré n’est pas si simple à chevaucher de prime abord.
Prévoyez au moins 20 minutes pour vous y faire.
Et il est recommandé (obligatoire?) d’être sous la supervision d’un adulte pour en faire, et de rester loin des routes ouvertes à tout prix.
Assurez-vous également de porter un équipement de sécurité adapté pour protéger votre tête, vos poignets, coudes et genoux. Des chaussures de basket (ou équivalent) sont fortement conseillées afin de protéger vos chevilles de bleus et des coupures diverses.
Voilà pour l’essentiel. En outre, une notice est jointe avec la roue, et il est vraiment utile de la lire également. Le bon sens et l’extrême prudence sont aussi vivement conseillés.
Une petite illustration video ici pour bien comprendre de quoi il en retourne.
Take Care.
Pascal.
EN - Engineering / Design, EN - English, EN - Geek Challenge, EN - Projects

Stencyl : Latest (bad) News

Aside

Hi there,

Just for you to know, tonight I feel a little bit disappointed by Stencyl, as I haven’t been able to easily adjust screen resolution to something higher than HD… Everything is shown way too tiny and I cannot see anything actually.
For that reason, I cannot use it anymore on my new laptop and I will uninstall it and port my current projects to Unity3D (even if I will restart them as 2D projects)
If any of you guys have found a nice workaround for that UI issue, please let me know and I might consider to install it again. But for now, I will place all my Stencyl projects on hold until further notice.

Take care.
Pascal

EN - Engineering / Design, EN - English, EN - Projects, EN - Travel

SBU: First ride (Self-Balanced Unicycle)

Aside

Hi There.

Last wednesday I had my first ride on open road with my SBU (Self-Balanced Unicycle). It was so much fun, I can compare it to the first time I managed to ride a bike without almost killing myself (Well, I guess, I can’t remember actually :-))

I had two practice sessions inside my home on the week before, and finally I decided to go outside, trying to stay on the kerb, not getting run over by a truck.
There is not much more I can tell right now, especially because it would take a while to remember everything, and I am a bit overbooked at the moment.
Give me a chance to come back to you later, probably next week, and I will tell the whole adventure, with pics and lots of fun stuff included.

That’s all for now.
Take Care.
Pascal

 

FR - Argent, FR - Français, FR - IT / Internet

Arnaque de l’iPhone à 1€


(In french)

Salut.

Juste un message rapide pour vous rappeler de faire attention à l’arnaque de l’iPhone à 1€. En effet, je viens de tomber à nouveau sur une de ces pages qui circulent maintenant depuis 1 an. Ne soyons pas naïfs, l’entreprise qui fait actuellement les plus gros bénéfices de la planète ne va pas donner à 1€ un téléphone qui vaut entre 700€ et 1.000€..

Méfiez-vous, celles et ceux qui tentent leur chance en croyant ne risquer qu’un euro vont se voir prélever 49€ ou 89€ par mois pendant plusieurs mois avant de pouvoir arrêter l’escroquerie!

Alors de grâce faites-moi plaisir, rappelez-vous toujours que ce qui est trop beau pour être vrai, et bien justement, ça n’est pas vrai! Si des ados ou certains de mes élèves me lisent, si vous avez fait la bêtise de prendre la CB de vos parents, prévenez-les immédiatement. Mieux vaux une grosse brimade tout de suite, qu’une énorme punition dans 6 mois… Et puis quand je m’évertue à conseiller aux moins de 13 ans de ne pas aller sur le web sans la supervision des adultes, voilà pourquoi, entre autres… 

Rappelez-vous, toujours, soyez prudents en ligne, et si la bêtise est déjà faite, avouez-la avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.

Take care

Pascal

EN - Engineering / Design, EN - English, EN - Geek Challenge, EN - Projects, En - Puzzle Solving, EN - Travel, EN – IT / Internet

LETHARGICDOG UPDATE – JAN/FEB 2016 – PART 2


(Cliquer ici pour l’article en Français)
Hi there!
Here are some news today about various LethargicDog projects for 2016.
This post is intended to let my followers know about what I am working on at the moment and encourage some more people to join in!
I will split the following text in several parts to make it easier to read and to refer to.
Here are the topics that will be discussed below:
0/ Foreword and Announcement.
1/ Books, Games, Blogs and Apps in progress.
2/ Educational Content.
3/ Social Networking and Online Stuff.
4/ Software/Hardware/Services.
5/ Funding
6/ Roadmap/Calendar/Deadlines
7/ Comments/Likes/Shares
8/ French/English Content Breakdown.
9/ Personal Stuff.
10/ Bottom Line

This document will be updated all year long, mainly to add pictures, drawings and links to other posts or pages for more detailed information on each particular topic. Apart from that, it will remain unchanged in order to compare to achievements at the end of year 2016.
Let’s start!

2/ Educational Content
I am working on several tutorials that will be gathered into a book (Technology for Everyone, as mentioned in chapter 1).
Main topics are app and game programming, 2D and 3D design, Word Processing (writing text, documents), social networks, internet security..
The whole list of subjects are listed in a French document available here, I will provide an English version as soon as I can)
The content is for teenagers, students and adults who want to catch up the latest stuff regarding everything about IT and Technology.
My goal is to produce one post per week ideally, on this very blog. Other technical content will also be available on my Twitter, Google+ and other places, so then people can find more stuff to learn and discover.
I will try to combine audio, video, text, photos, drawings, charts, everything that can be the most appropriate to a particular topic.
I will also provide a lot of link to external contents, such as MOOCs, notorious YouTube accounts, universities, and every places when valuable I formation is available.
I will do my best to write stuff both in French and English.

3/ Social Networking and Online Stuff
I always do my best to let my followers know about my work. I use mainly this blog, twitter and Google+ for that matter.
There is a page here where you can find all my public stuff, most of it being accessible for free.
Once books and games are available, I will add direct access to them on this page, as well as the link for funding purpose(check chapter 5)
I invite you to subscribe, follow, like ands comment my stuff, in order for me to improve my work and adapt it to my readers and followers.
For example, my English being really bad, I’d be sincerely grateful if some of you guys can suggest best sentences or find typos or anything that can improve my English for it to be read by a global audience.
(To be continued.)

4/ Software/Hardware/Services.
5/ Funding
6/ Roadmap/Calendar/Deadlines
7/ Comments/Likes/Shares
8/ French/English Content Breakdown.
9/ Personal Stuff.
10/ Bottom Line

That’s all for now!
Take care.
Pascal.

EN - Engineering / Design, EN - English, EN - Geek Challenge, EN - Projects, EN – IT / Internet

Toolbox #1


Toolbox #1.

Hi there,
Some of my students always ask me links or directions about Apps and Websites we use at school. That’s why I have decided to make lists of tools we use all year long.
Here is the first toolset for the first four categories that are Learning How to Code, 2D Drawing, 3D Drawing, Writing Calculation and Presentation.
Enjoy!

1/ Learning How To Code.
– code.org
– codecademy.com
– scratch.mit.edu

2/ 2D Drawing.
– Paint
– inkscape.org (vector graphics)
– gimp.org (pixel, bitmap)

3/ 3D Drawing.
– Sketchup.com
– blender.org
– ldd.lego.com

4/ Writing, Calculation and Presentation
– libreoffice.org
– openoffice.org
– Microsoft Office (charges apply)

That’s all for now.
Take care!