Ocassional Notes
25. January 2022
My old work (TWG) had a 3D printer for employees to play with and use. In the summer of 2019 my son was getting into model rocket launching, but we kept losing them in trees. So I decided to try 3d printing some rockets. It never really worked out, but in my new spirit of blogging failures, I’m posting about it. My goal was to make my own easily produced reusable rocket.
18. January 2022
Wordle is a popular word deduction game. The aim is to guess a word given six guesses. You can only guess valid English words that are in wordle’s dictionary. Each wrong guess will yield hints. A letter highlighted in yellow indicates it matches the target word somewhere. A letter marked in green indicates the correct letter in the correct position. I feel like a branching strategy (preferably choosing from common letters) is the best. But what word should you start with? And what is the worst word to start with?
29. December 2021
When I was a child, they had a plotter at my mom’s office. I don’t remember the model, but it was something like a HP 7550A. I was fascinated by it, and I’m sure I watched it go for many hours. From that, I’ve always loved plotter technology. I’ve always kind of wanted to make my own. Last year, the urge became too great and I tried out the branchiograph project. I didn’t get the best results for various reasons.