https://blog.usedbytes.com/tags/data/ Recent content in data on usedbytes:Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.usedbytes.com/2022/08/screenmachine-flm-images/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.usedbytes.com/2022/08/screenmachine-flm-images/ When I visited recently, my Dad gave me a challenge: He handed me a box of 3.5" floppy disks1, which hold lots of images of minerals from an electron microscope. The challenge: Turn the images into something viewable with a modern computer. I don’t have any computers with a floppy drive, though I do have a bunch of floppy drives not in computers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I did think my 11-year-old desktop had a floppy connector on the motherboard, but alas not. https://blog.usedbytes.com/2022/06/3d-printed-terrain-models-using-os-open-data/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.usedbytes.com/2022/06/3d-printed-terrain-models-using-os-open-data/ So clearly there are some issues to work out, but this was bit-banged from an OV7670 on a Pico. PIO next. #raspberrypi #PiWars pic.twitter.com/yJFQFhU9Xk — Brian Starkey (@usedbytes) September 14, 2021 [M0o+](https://blog.usedbytes.com/tags/m0o+/) -- Images on this page contains OS data © Crown Copyright (2021), used under the Open Government License Some years ago, in 2018, a relative of mine mentioned in passing that they’d quite like a 3D model of the area where they live, as it’s geographically complex and hard to get a sense for from ground level.