DesignSpark Mechanical Goes 2.0

CAD design tool DesignSpark Mechanical has now been upgraded to version 2.0.



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A New Fritzing–Now With Code View

Fritzing is a fantastic tool (and a huge collection of components and boards you can use in your designs) for sketching out your circuits, but it can do much more. Now Fritzing adds a new capability: a code editor built in to the Fritzing environment.

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ITP Winter Show Slideshow

A slideshow of completed and works-in-progress projects by graduate students of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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new mc almond milk track for you.

new mc almond milk track for you.

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Equality for all cyclists: The social justice case for mass cycling | Peter Walker

Do busy roads put off cyclists with disabilities, women or older people? And if so, could local authorities be made to improve cycle infrastructure under equality legislation?

It’s fair to say that, for all the government promises of a “cycling revolution”, not a vast amount has happened in recent years to improve the lot of cyclists on British roads. Campaigns, pestering MPs, direct action – nothing seems to have worked.

So how about just taking legal action under equalities legislation, forcing local authorities to provide proper cycle infrastructure?

The results confirm that transport policy and research should cover planning for inclusive cycling, as it addresses issues of public transport accessibility and provision for disabled car users. This means studying engineering constraints (like a handcycle’s turning radius), but also research asking people with different disabilities what they would need to cycle.

We find that most people believe disabled people don’t cycle. This census data puts this misconception to rest. Many disabled people cycle with impairments which are not visible as they whiz past. In fact, many people use their cycle as a mobility aid. It does not make them less disabled and it is crucial that transport planners, cycle infrastructure designers etc. take the needs of disabled cyclists into account.

I handcycle to work. I am lucky to be able to take my cycle all the way into my office but many who cycle non-standard cycles are stopped from cycling by the lack of secure cycle parking at their destination for their bike, trike or handcycle, not by their impairment.

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Legs

You know what? I absolutely love my legs. They’re amazing, and I’m so lucky to have them. No matter how unreliable my tyres, the weather, the road surface, my brake pads, the nerves in my hands, my route-finding, my nutritional input or my strength of will, my legs just keep on going. I have never [...]



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Coffee Spots

The series I’ve been working on has been collected in a calendar that’s going to be released at this years first Glasgow Coffee Festival at the Briggait. Its a collection of some of the best independent coffee shops in Scotland. It includes 5 from Glasgow, 5 from Edinburgh with one in Aberfeldy and another from […]



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Biting off more

I am really really really really really really really really really really excited. It’s a lovely feeling, and not one you’re treated to very often as a grown-up. Even though my life is, by some people’s standards, a lot more exciting than the average, it’s often difficult to see it that way from the inside. [...]



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We have 'a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' for a cycling revolution | Chris Boardman

In a speech delivered in Bristol today, Chris Boardman stressed that bold targets and increased funding are needed if the draft government UK cycling plan is to deliver real change

Last year the prime minister stood next to our Olympians, Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton, and said that he wants, and I quote directly:

To kickstart a cycling revolution which would remove the barriers for a new generation of cyclists. This means a nation where cycling levels rival those in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.

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