Apart from cartography and other geography related stuff, I'm also interested in programming, electronics, modern history, politics, urbanism and to some extend generally all the science and culture stuff! On this page I'm going to show some of my ideas mostly unrelated to Lankarta Project but generally revolves around my interests that can be quickly summarised as "everything that can be on a map or in a computer".
Status: Small scale progress - Zero prototypes, not a single physical part bought or made, only concept arts.
I am a big fan of cycling and before I got to drive by car everywhere because of my current responsibilities, I used to drive at least 20 km almost every day! One of the accesories that I always wanted to have was a customized bike computer, as I just really don't like those tiny tamagochi lookin' bike computers with very limited functionality. I had two ideas to make a bike computer of my dream: one was to write a custom bike computer app, install it on some spare old phone and mount it with some rock-solid phone holder, and second was to buy RasberryPi computer, plug all the accesories like touchscreen, batteries, headlights, sensons and whatnots, design a case with handlebar mounter and 3D print it somehow, which would be a project of a complexity of launching a start-up!
Which will probably never happen, so only the first option is somewhat feasible.
Sony Erricson C510 was my first phone with Java Virtual Machine and proper web browser. The idea came up that after I cease to use it (to succumb into smartphone era) I could write some Java app (I've never written anything in Java), plug some sensors (to Sony Erricson prorietary socket, it didn't have USB or even a headphone jack) and have a quirky looking bike computer. That never happened and the phone's screen died too fast. But that's the image of how that I imagined it, so quaint lol.
Bike computer mock-up with proprietary LCS screen, 2000's style. I would need to make my own LCD panel with some chemicals or just order LCD screen with custom pixels which would cost a lot I guess.
Bike computer mock-up with green LCD screen with pixels, 2010's style. This type of screen is much easier to order in some chinese shops.
Bike computer mock-up with monochrome LCD screen, 2015's style. That setup would have 3 separate batteries so even when the baterry of the computer dries up, the lights are still on.
Status: Small scale progress - Large spreadsheet with some formulas and more than 800 songs, not updated since 2014, no working web app
It also counted songs that my friends had shown me.
Status: Nothing - some broken and discarded keyboard javascript webpage
Since I finally made my own money, I always used second screen with my laptop, and it usually was some cheap second hand 17 inch LCD screen. About three years ago I treated myself and bought ASUS touchscreen monitor, for about 140€. It's a bit tiny for modern standards but the real purpose of that screen was not to display stunning image quality, it was meant for me to learn programming for touch screen on my computer and do some funky stuff with it!
My ideas for that screen:Status: Nothing - the house full of unmarked baby clothes everywhere
I have searching for stuff that I need, and looking for necessities in unorganized containers while I have to go somewhere with my baby anywhere is just pain.
Status: Nothing - whitered flowers
For me the best potted flowers are those that I don't have to interact at all, no watering, no soil swapping, nothing, they just standing there and look green. That doesn't mean that I don't like them, I just don't have any simple guidence how to take care of them so that ends up with some random maintanance work that seems pointless and often ends up with dry leaves and uncolored blossoms.
My ideal solution to this would be easily reachable tags for every single pot and an app on the phone that notifies what should I done for each flower at a time. The app like this probably already exist but I'm too lazy to gain info about each plant and organize it into a convenient system.