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Clinton Freeman
Personal blog · reprage.com · on HN as clintondesignculture
Clinton Freeman writes RepRage, a personal blog at reprage.com about design and culture. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How Banksy Authenticates His Work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Clinton Freeman's posts as sources on Banksy's artwork authentication, food safety of PLA 3D-printing filament, and connecting a Polar heart-rate strap to a Raspberry Pi. The comments cite them without judging the writing.
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Explore the intersection of art and technology with Clinton Freeman, a new media artist and software engineer from Queensland, Australia. Discover his interactive works, insightful articles, and collaborations.
Most-linked posts?
- How Banksy Authenticates His Work8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-03-31
What Hacker News says?
Banksy does something similar now: https://reprage.com/post/how-banksy-authenticates-his-work
Comment linking /post/how-banksy-authenticates-his-work
on “Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years”Submitted How Banksy Authenticates His Work as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI ran a similar experiment at home, albeit with a fern rather than potatoes and without simulating martian light. My fern started to perish (and it was a well established plant). The biggest problem I'm facing at the moment is that Mars is extremely nitrogen deficient. https://reprage.com/post/marsarium-9 https://www.reddit.com/r/Colonizemars/comments/5vi52v/inspir...
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on “Study: Potatoes can grow on Mars”Submitted How Banksy Authenticates His Work as a story · 62 points
HN discussionPLA is actually a bioplastic made from veggies and is actually considered food safe[1]. In fact, many of the plastic cups that you use are made from PLA, particularly anything clear. They can biodegrade given enough heat. The non-foodsafe part of 3d printing PLA is the hot end which is not clean, and can also be cross contaminated from printing other plastics such as ABS which is oil based. [1] http://reprage.com/po…
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on “Monoprice now has $400 3D printers”Submitted An open letter to women in technology as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI have not tried myself, but maybe Polar H10 strap or older H7. I didn't realize that H10 works with free app, so I bought expensive HRM too. :( The strap has internal memory that can train one session of data. https://nob.ro/post/polar_h10_ubuntu/ https://github.com/rsc-dev/loophole https://reprage.com/post/how-to-connect-the-raspberry-pi-to-... Polar H10 is very accurate. I personally pair it with free PolarBeat a…
Comment linking /post/how-to-connect-the-raspberry-pi-to-a-bluetooth-heart-rate-monitor
on “Ask HN: Is there a no-nonsense device that lets me measure my heart rate?”Submitted How Banksy Authenticates His Work as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSomewhere between 32,000 and 70,000 consumer 3D printers have been sold to the end of 2012 -- http://reprage.com/post/35354576225/how-many-consumer-3d-pri...
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on “Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?”Submitted How Banksy authenticates his work through certificates as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Banksy Authenticates His Work as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A 'Marsarium' that simulates Martian soil and atmosphere as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Banksy Authenticates His Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Banksy Authenticates His Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Number of consumer 3Dprinters sold as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A Raspberry Pi Comparison Chart as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the new Windows 8.1 3D Printing API? You're gonna have a bad time. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is 3D printing the new virtual reality? as a story · 1 points
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