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The Giant Lego Wreath is a fun 3d printing project for the holiday season. Be warned though, that this is a time-consuming process with multiple prints that will gobble up a good chunk of green filament. To be fair, I did scale up to 200% scale from the standard size. It’d be much more manageable…
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Today I printed and built a toy catapult that is mostly designed as an interesting teaching aid for STEM projects. The model is created by STEMFIE and is free to download and print. I thought it’d be fun to show my daughters how the coiled spring holds the tension and when released the ball is…
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Swift Playgrounds is an excellent entry point into the world of iOS app development, with a simplistic approach to teaching core programming concepts that makes it an invaluable tool for educators teaching the subject. But where is it heading? The Current State Of Swift Playgrounds First, don’t get scared away if you’re not a Swift…
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Maybe it’s not profound to say this, but making time for a side hustle requires sacrifice. If you’re serious about starting something on the side. If you’re serious about making something great. You have to be serious enough to sacrifice to get it done. But, what do you sacrifice when you want to start your side…
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Prototyping is an essential step in the product development process. It is the process of creating a preliminary model or sample of a product to test and evaluate its functionality and design. Prototyping can help you to identify design flaws, test product features, and refine the product design. The art of successful prototyping lies in…
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Today I did an impromptu live stream in an effort to reignite my passion for Swift Playgrounds and Swift programming in general. Cutting to the chase — it was a success! Maybe not by the numbers… but I’ll get to why in a second. Fun & Challenging I don’t live stream often. It’s something I’ve…
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Every so often an idea pops into my head and I can’t stop thinking about it. I just have to work on it. My wife says this is related to my undiagnosed ADHD, which maybe she’s right, but no matter what the cause lately my time has been diverted away from programming – towards BafflingBits.…
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Building a game with Swift Playgrounds is mostly an exercise in trying to find ways to hack together a solution that’ll work for your idea. You don’t have access to all the tools that you would in full Xcode, so you just have to make do with what you’ve got. Using SwiftUI Charts Swift UI…
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Swift Playgrounds is Apple’s entry into Swift. It’s designed to teach people, primarily school-age people, how to write code that can be used to make apps for the AppStore. It’s a brilliant plan – teach young people how to make apps for iOS then when they get older they’ll make apps for iOS. GameDEV With…
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Version one is never the end goal. In today’s fast pace world you need to be able to iterate on your idea faster than ever before. Smooth out the idea, refine the value proposition, become the best dam product you – no – anyone has has seen. Iteration gives you the power to improve sequentially…
