Author Archives: jaap

Pressure or Progress: The Story of the Small Headsail

Posted on 2024-08-04, Sunday by jaap

One of the best sailing days this year so far reminded me of something that I personally need to be reminded of quite frequently. Maybe the insight is of some value to you too. It deals with a few tensions, … Continue reading →

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Having some fun with Scratch

Posted on 2024-04-25, Thursday by jaap

Enjoying supervising a group of kids at my son’s school with programming. The kids play around with Scratch and MicroBit and I help them when they get stuck and try to get the occasional bit of theory across, you know: … Continue reading →

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Fixing the dryer! Adventures of an amateur technician.

Posted on 2021-02-07, Sunday by jaap

A few weeks ago, the motor of my laundry dryer started stuttering, sometimes making a humming noise, sometimes stopping all together. I’ve only had this/a dryer for a couple of years –it was my mother’s before–, so I thought: all … Continue reading →

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Creating a web based mapping application with flexx

Posted on 2017-04-04, Tuesday by jaap

For my private boat navigation software project, I was looking for an easy way to manipulate a map, in particular openseamap, from both client and server side. The idea being that the server side runs on a Raspberry Pi that … Continue reading →

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Walking in the Eifel

Posted on 2015-12-06, Sunday by jaap

Very rainy but ghostly beautiful walk during our week’s stay near Monschau.

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Trip to Scheveningen and some pictures

Posted on 2015-09-16, Wednesday by jaap

Made a nice sailing trip to Scheveningen last weekend. Earlier this year, Hiske Kamminga took some nice pictures of Wahine:

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Sparkfun 9DOF on Raspberry Pi 2

Posted on 2015-08-24, Monday by jaap

A couple of months ago, I finally set out to get the Sparkfun 9DOF stick working (3D acceleration sensor, gyroscope and magnetic flux sensor/compass: 3 x 3 = 9). I got it from my father for my birthday a couple … Continue reading →

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Mining FTW

Posted on 2015-08-03, Monday by jaap

Not actually for the win… there’s not much to be gained. However I find it fascinating that people are actually building dedicated chips (ASICs) to mine crypto currencies (BitCoin etc.). So after mining litecoin on my AMD Radeon HD7950 GPU … Continue reading →

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Volvo HQ Alicante

Posted on 2015-07-23, Thursday by jaap

While the Volvo Ocean 65’s were in Scheveningen, we were Spain. A somewhat unfortunate planning and not surprisingly there weren’t too many people around the Volvo Ocean Race HQ in Alicante. Nice to have a look around though 🙂

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The Sweetest Thing

Posted on 2015-01-22, Thursday by jaap

Amazed and bewildered when looking at our little son 🙂

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