Brick
First, an apology. A short while ago I declared that I was going to post every day between now and the election a selection of news stories from the same point in the 2016 election. I lasted about five days before I gave up. It turned out that it is not easy to collect news from a specific date. Google does not search on news story datelines so a search for "new May 15 2016' only finds stories with that text in the body of the story. This makes gathering stories from various dates very hit-and-miss. As a result there was not much consistency in the stories I found from day to day. In addition, just finding suitable stories was taking longer than I expected. So I am going to call that an unsuccessful experiment.
In new news, we have the bouncing brick. I have long wanted to be able to add sound effects to my pages but I had thought that I would have to get a midi keyboard and do a bunch of hacking. Recently, I heard about a javascript library "Tone.js" which looked like exactly what I needed. The brick is a proof of concept. Click on the brick and it bounces up and down and makes a sound at the top and botom of its travel. Hit "reload" to stop the brick. We hope this is the beginning of bigger and bolder adventures. dgdriscoll
In new news, we have the bouncing brick. I have long wanted to be able to add sound effects to my pages but I had thought that I would have to get a midi keyboard and do a bunch of hacking. Recently, I heard about a javascript library "Tone.js" which looked like exactly what I needed. The brick is a proof of concept. Click on the brick and it bounces up and down and makes a sound at the top and botom of its travel. Hit "reload" to stop the brick. We hope this is the beginning of bigger and bolder adventures. dgdriscoll