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The base frame The foundation of the build was a tiny clown bike manufactured some time in the early 2000s under the name “Mikro-bike”.

London Euston to Southampton, Cycle Island Tour Every year, the Isle of Wight hosts a cycling event which circumnavigates the island.

A Budget single-speed build @suoman was having real issues with her 100 quid department store bike so I decided to chip in and get her something better especially after hearing how nice it would be to own a racing-style-not-so-heavy-bike.

Petite Little Red Riding Hood After building Del a red mini-velo (named Little Red Riding Hood) last year, I thought I’d follow it up with a smaller version of the small bike as a gift during our first clay session.

London to Cambridge to Hunstanton to King’s Lynn The first long ride of the year was done with the London Beer and Bike Group; leaving from Bernie Spains Gardens in Southwark, the route was to take us to Cambridge via the canal towpaths in the east end of…

Having bought a bell similar to this one quite a while back for roughly (5 GBP), I’d seen how well it worked very loudly and clearly as a bell.

I hadn’t been in town to join critical mass since moving to Manchester in Sept 2016.

Originally written as a way to experiment with vector graphics in PixiJS.

I wrote this toy during a particularly long and unproductive meeting that I couldn’t leave.

Wrote a little procedural art widget drawing inspiration from bubble / cloud chambers used to study particle trajectories.

This is a toy script that generates a random 2D celluar automata ruleset and applies it to a randomly generated world with each run of the web page.

My parents purchased a pair of old road bikes from the mid/late 70s in relatively good condition for their age before the family moved to Toronto (around 2011).

Route-Importer for MapFactor doesn't work :( Have to write my own... — Jim (account EOL; see you on Mastodon) (@spacefishing) June 30, 2016 Wrote a small tool to convert and insert waypoints from a GPX route into a MapFactor Navigator route.

Inbound to Cambridge from London We started off at city hall as an FW-club ride.

Upgrades to Bessie the Brompton Getting a Brompton brought me into whole new level of cycling.

A minivelo is a type of small wheeled bike with a standard road bike geometry and smaller sized wheels.

I wrote a Slack bot that controls and reacts to the state of Sonos controllers on your network.

Biking since moving to London UK Cycling has always been a way for me to get around and explore places nearby but out of walking distance.

Originally posted to https://medium.com/this-place/translucify-374ec3f621c5 Translucify is a drop-in solution for mismatched background colors between a web page and its images.

Mazes have always fasincated me.

A regular lurker on the /r/WebGames subreddit, I found a perfect game to write a 15 minute bot for a game posted that was posted.

First long ride (~100 km) from London to Brighton after getting the 100GBP Argos “crusader” bike.

Over the summer of 2013 several very well made corrugated plastic boats were featured on DIY sites and on r/buildaboat.

“Fisches” For the 3rd gamedev weekend project, I chose to take part in a game jam.

My second gamedev weekend project, this time I attempted to create a web version of a popular board game: Kulami.

Junior’s first 48 hour collaborative gamedev Life gets boring sometimes when you do the same thing over and over again by yourself.

Various tidbits learned from SF TechShop classes Oxy-Acetylene Torch Starting: Open the acetylene valve to the torch first, then the oxygen valve.

Laser shooting prop gun After finishing a few basic machining courses, I was very much tempted to explore inventing and making something which was not a test weld or a simple bottle opener from 18 gauge mild steel.

Starman & Crashed UFO late 2012

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: “Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, what is the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the origin city?”

I spent a weekend night implementing an old demoscene 3D tunnel rendering trick in HTML5, here are the results: Textured, shaded, ray casting rendering of a tunnel.

This was an undergraduate computer vision extra-curricular project.

Cache Google Maps tiles by browsing the location of interest This is simple C app that I wrote up and tested in about 2 hours that automatically saves the map tiles of Google Maps as you browse a location of interest.

These particular model M buckling spring (B-S) or “clicky” keyboards were paired and sold with IBM PS/1 and some PS/2 systems circa 1990.

A Command and Conquer engine in JS Update Nov. 2011:

Wrote and animated a lot of Flash games/animations back in the early 2000s during my time in high-school.

jsyang.ca is a software engineering + management consultant currently living in Manchester, UK.