365.24 Ginger Chicken Noodles

Straight out of the Any Given Food cookbook, it’s some ginger chicken noodles with stir fried peppers and shallots. Gotta love home cooking of a Tuesday.

365.23 The Lunchtime News

How do you get the lunchtime news? By walking into town and consuming the news via iPad, though it’s only something I do when my phone’s battery is on its last legs. Sure does break the walk.

365.22 Hello, Deer

The next time you’re taking a walk in Jenkinstown Park in Kilkenny, be sure to stop and say hello to the deer.

BrickIt’s Dynaway Sorting Plant: Made From LEGO

There are some things in life that you just can’t throw out. One of those, is the large box of LEGO that sits in the wardrobe in the spare bedroom upstairs. I honestly think that there’s nothing you can’t make with LEGO, case in point, the video above. Very much worth the three minute viewing.

This project is a sortingplant that sorts 2×4 and 1×2 bricks in size and color. The bricks get sorted directly into pallets in a high bay storage system. When a new color is detected, an empty pallet in the high bay storage is assigned to the color. When a pallet is full, a robot retrieves it, and returns a new empty pallet. There are 7 NXT’s in the plant, and they all communicate with each other and a PC application over Bluetooth. The software written in leJOS, with is a java language for MINDSTORMS®. It’s build for a company called Dynaway (www.dynaway.com). They use this model to demonstrate their manufacturing execution system. The model is designed to fit inside one large flight case, for easy transport.

The total project took over 1,000 to put together between construction and programming time.

Via The Journal and BrickItDK

365.21 Returning To Football Manager

Early college weekends were spent with a few friends, a few cases of beer and endless hours of Football Manager. Over a decade since we first started doing it, we’re still at it and the first session of 2012 kicked off with a fine last minute victory over Chelsea.

365.20 Bike Chained To Railing

I spent the day working in Dublin and snapped this outside The Ark in Temple Bar. I’ll assume the bike belongs to a member of staff but you can see the irony, right?

365.19 Working Pints

Work with Ross Costigan (pictured) rarely gets done in the morning and when we get together to blitz a few things, it’s good to clear the decks time-wise.

We’ve been adopting Cleere’s in Kilkenny as a regional office since August last year. A roaring fire, free wifi and top drawer pints make for a good working atmosphere.

365.18 The Wrong Dart Station

So, I ended up at the wrong dart station. Got out of the hospital with blurred vision after drops and an ultrasound, walked to Sydney Parade, couldn’t read the signs or anything within three feet of me, hopped on the dart in what I *thought* was the opposite direction to the one I arrived in.

The next station announcement came after we started moving but at that stage I was going in the wrong direction.

Still, Booterstown isn’t too bad, got to see the sea

365.17 Kill Alex Cross

Christmas has long come and gone and as such so has my annual reading time. One still hanging on is James Patterson’s latest Alex Cross novel. I’ve some travel time tomorrow and Friday so I’m hoping to get stuck in. When they say “the pages turn themselves”, they aren’t joking.

New Kontroller, Workflow for Traktor

I’ve been getting to grips with the Traktor Kontrol S4 and Traktor Pro 2 after a few months of tinkering around with the LE version of the DJing software for Mac and PC. It looks like they’re going to be making a rather sizeable addition to the Traktor Kontrol family coming March this year if the above clip released earlier today is anything to go by.

Find out more about Traktor here.