Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pureneemo Love Is War Characters Kaguya Shinomiya and Chika Fujiwara
Review of Azone Pureneemo Character dolls 122 Kaguya Shinomiya and 123 Chika Fujiwara coming soon. In the meantime here’s the two girls at the beach. Bucket and spade were 3D printed to Pureneemo size. Here’s my video showing how their spade was 3D printed:
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Dollfie Dream 7th Dragon III Samurai (Yaiba) Outfit Try-On
Today we have a very special outfit for one of our Dollfie girls to try on. The outfit was released by Volks back in May 2017. We found the outfit on sale on the Volks Japan website in the Autumn of 2022. If you want to find older outfits in a brand new condition then […]
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Dollfie Volks Kagamine Daughter of Evil Mega Haul
Here’s our mega haul from Volks Japan’s Dollfie Store. My goodness there’s a lot of awesome stuff here. Top right is the Dollfie Dream 7th Dragon III Yaiba Samurai outfit. This outfit was released back in 2017 but I was lucky to find it up for sale on the Volks website. If you’re interested in […]
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A Very Basic SQL Cursor for SQL Server (T-SQL)
Here’s a quick overview video of how to write and use a basic cursor in SQL Server’s T-SQL. The SQL code for both a regular SELECT cursor as well as an UPDATE cursor is below. Cursors are really useful if you want to perform a specific action on all of the rows in a particular […]
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Lego Cantina Plays The Cantina Music ???
The Lego Mos Eisley Cantina 75290 is an incredible Lego set but soon after I had completed it I realised something was missing… that famous music played by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes. After much searching online I found out a way to play music on an Arduino Uno using a simple piezo buzzer […]
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I Built a Lego Sized TV for the Friends Apartment Set (10292)
In this video we’ll learn how to make a miniature sized TV for the Lego Creator Expert Friends Apartments set 10292. Then you can recreate the girls (and Ross) watching Phoebe in Smelly Cat and the boys watching Baywatch! All you need is an Arduino Uno, an SSD1306 128×64 0.96 inch OLED display and a […]
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Arduino + TFT Display With Multicolor Sprites (ST7735S 80×160 Module)
In this video you can see how I created a mock up display of the classic Nintendo Donkey Kong game on an Arduino Uno. The display module used is an ST7735S 80×160 TFT screen sourced from eBay. Arduino Uno sketch source code is further down the page… The graphics were created using the Adafruit GFX […]
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How to Query SQL Server Full-Text Search Using CONTAINS and FREETEXT
Leave a LIKE on YouTube if you found this tutorial useful and SUBSCRIBE for more coding videos. Speaking of LIKE, in this coding lesson I show some different methods of searching SQL Server tables using LIKE %%, CONTAINS, FREETEXT, CONTAINSTABLE and FREETEXTTABLE. If you’re searching a table and your query is a single word then […]
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Things to See and Do in Tokyo’s Hamamatsucho District
Hamamatsucho station on the Yamanote line is the nearest station for the Tokyo Tower and Zojo-ji temple. Tokyo Tower The Tokyo Tower was built in 1958. Any resemblance to the Eiffel Tower is purely coincidental. Besides, the Tokyo Tower is taller, and like most tall structures in Japan is painted in alternating red and white […]
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So Many Fake Things in China… Here’s a Fake Coffee Shop!
I guess China is well known for the amount of fake goods that are produced there, but have you ever seen a fake coffee shop? I have! I did a double take when I visited the small shopping mall near where to where I was teaching English in China. I saw a coffee shop that […]
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