December 2012
2 posts
Build your own RC Car using Lego, an Xbox...
When I was a child I always wanted a remote control car. I never got one — usually my parents convinced me that the novelty would wear off in an hour, and that it wouldn’t be worth the expense. (They were probably right). I usually opted for a safer videogame-based option at Christmas time, and on my birthday I’d ask for Lego.
The Raspberry Pi — a tiny, low-power...
July 2012
3 posts
Hacking Scrabble
For the lazy: Not interested in all this data wrangling? Skip straight to these summary graphics to improve your Scrabble game:
Introduction
A while ago I was blogging about a little research project I called Hacking Scrabble, which received a lot of interest and was published on LifeHacker. I was trying to get better at the game by using the kind of memory tricks we learned in school:
“My...
December 2011
1 post
Hacking Scrabble (part 1)
Edit: See this article for the final result of this project!
This post isn’t really about Scrabble. It’s about taking a load of ugly data and hacking around with some scripts to refine it into something I can commit to memory. Then its about Scrabble. Winning at Scrabble.
The Problem
Knowing exactly which two-letter words exist gives a player a sizeable advantage because it opens up...
