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New comment by sturbes in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

sturbes — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:59:24 +0000

BBC Microbit kids hardware platform uses WebUSB. It’s a game changer for introducing hardware to students. Just works. Makecode.microbit.org is the web IDE. Reference URLs for the code make sharing and debugging easy.

New comment by sturbes in "Show HN: Weird Clocks"

sturbes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:44:14 +0000

So cool!

New comment by sturbes in "Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser"

sturbes — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:01:53 +0000

very cool! FYI the original project mentioned is at https://solvingsol.com/. open contribution at https://github.com/wholepixel/solving-sol

New comment by sturbes in "SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs"

sturbes — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:19:44 +0000

Generative AI image bitmaps lack internal detail to enable effective collaboration.

Designers can label SVG elements in their design tools for effective coding collaboration with LLMs. A tool is presented to make this easier.

SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs

sturbes — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://turbek.com/Designing-Interactive-SVGs-with-AI/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819827

Points: 11

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New comment by sturbes in "An SVG is all you need"

sturbes — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:11:04 +0000

Of course, but in comparison to bitmap tools like midjourney, you can communicate with an AI by specifying a SVG element to be manipulated. "Rotate ID "logo" 30 degrees" is very legible to the AI

New comment by sturbes in "An SVG is all you need"

sturbes — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:14:36 +0000

I just went down the same rabbit hole, it is totally fun! https://turbek.com/Designing-Interactive-SVGs-with-AI/

TLDR:

- SVG image files: powerful like HTML

- Supported widely in browsers

- Designer tools make SVGs

- SVGs are written in a language

- LLMs are great at manipulating language

- Designers can collaborate interaction into life

New comment by sturbes in "Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts"

sturbes — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:41:23 +0000

I’ve been saying “There is a real you, unfortunately, you’re not it.”

New comment by sturbes in "Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students"

sturbes — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:18:19 +0000

This is above my expertise, might be a better comment for this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859464

New comment by sturbes in "Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students"

sturbes — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:14:51 +0000

YES! he is the OG of these animations.

There are also cool sites like https://507movements.com

In some ways we are all building from the same source material. I put as much of the historical resources into this custom research page https://mechanical-library.org/mechanical-wonderland

Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students

sturbes — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:37:00 +0000

Just finished a super-nerdy amateur hobby project: An exhibit and website to show kids how cool mechanisms are!

Sadly, kids don't get much tangible experience with machines anymore. Ideally, this exhibit will inspire some to explore engineering, even if they are not "book learners". The website provides content to back up the exhibit, with videos and 3D printing files.

The project is inspired by engineering exhibits from the past. Check out the research page for more. The project will be open-sourced to enable people to make their own and extend it. If you want to collaborate, LMK.

--Steve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871984

Points: 28

# Comments: 6

New comment by sturbes in "Ask HN: Good teen books/sites/resources for mechanisms?"

sturbes — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:26:35 +0000

Very nice, thank you!

Ask HN: Good teen books/sites/resources for mechanisms?

sturbes — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:43:29 +0000

There appear to be infinite resources for learning software, any suggestions on the mechanical side (besides Lego+FIRST)?

Perhaps something like the Boston Museum of Science Clark Collection of Mechanical Movement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301333

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

Ask HN: Research on Teaching Programming?

sturbes — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:55:17 +0000

I’m helping some kids learn coding via Lego Mindstorms, and am shocked how complex the visual coding is, and how non transferable it is to “real” (text) coding. Are the mindstorms / Scratch based tools supported by research?

Have we seen good examples of UIs that start with text? Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25169442

Points: 2

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