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2007-03-05T06:52:21.000Z
Jason Plumb
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Inkscape for great success.
https://noisybox.net/blog/2007/03/inkscape_for_great_success
2007-03-05T06:52:21.000Z
<p>I've been getting into and exploring with <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a> lately. Although I was first tipped off to it a couple (?) years ago (now already?), I hadn't actually installed/tried it until recently. Now that I have put it through some test runs, I'm quite impressed! Of course the main idea (at least to me), is to be able to draw nice bezier curves and have them be smooth and be able to arbitrarily scale them and to edit them later (which you can't do with traditional bitmap/raster editing software...even thought Photoshop and <a href="http://gimp.org">Gimp</a> have incorporated "paths"). It does this beautifully...things are highly intiutive, I got up to speed pretty quickly I think...and although I hit the occasional quirk, it did just what I wanted. As with other software, like Gimp, I'm sure the Adobe design zealots will soon start ranting about how inferior it is and how it lacks all these great features that product <x>has...but whatever...I've never claimed to be a designer, but I can recommend it. I used Inkscape to draw up a series of logos for <a href="http://dorkbotpdx.org">DorkbotPDX</a> and for the <a href="http://www.pdxbot.org">PDXbot</a> event this year. You can view them <a href="http://noisybox.net/dorkbot">on my dorkbot subpage</a>. A week or so ago I tracked down the LM709 op-amp from <a href="http://www.halted.com">HSC Electronics</a> and hacked up a <a href="http://www.crackle.org/CrackleBox.htm">cracklebox</a> of my very own. I haven't put <a href="http://noisybox.net/electronics/cracklebox/">up a proper page for it yet</a>, but I have some content online and will bang a page out soon. Do <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superworm">superworms</a> molt? I've got a bin of 20 of them in oatmeal and I've been adding potato chunks, but I'm worried that they're not doing well. I once read that they'll eat each other if they get desperate, and I've seen what now look like carcases, but it might just be exoskin or something. I haven't even had time to really take care of them properly, which also implies that I haven't yet had time to record them.</x></p>