A while ago I posted an opinion about sharing and the point of openness. It was intended to be focus of conversation and so I took a stance that was controversial and was thoroughly attacked for it. It happens a lot more that we would like. A few months later I overheard Bre Pettis talking… Read more »
Posts By: feurig
What an Awesome Day! (repost from itp blog)
After having a nice post meet and greet dinner out on St Marks street with fellow campers last night I was woken up by one of my dorm mates at 7 am. He is doing an internship at Goldman Sachs. I had so much on my mind I wanted to jump up and write it… Read more »
BikeWedge: adding an external clock to opensprints/goldsprints_fx.
Watch while I pull another race clock system out of my hat. A couple of years ago Rapha gave me the mechanical race clock that I helped build for them 5 years ago and its been laying around in my pile since then. Three weeks ago Chrome bags called me up and asked if they… Read more »
Transit Tracker Rebuild: Making Due With What You Have.
Most of this week has been devoted to finishing the house network setting up a workspace in the garage and using it. One of the things I have been trying to get off of my plate was to rebuild the transit tracker that we use to tell us when the next max is going downtown…. Read more »
Stephen Wright’s Light Switch
As an example of a project for last fall’s “Physical Computing for Artists” class I suggested a light switch based on one of Stephen Wrights comedy bits. ‘In my house there’s this light switch that doesn’t do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a… Read more »
Our Favorite Solderin Iron
The Weller 25 Watt Marksman Soldering Iron (model # SP23L) Local Sources: Beaumont Hardware URS Electronics Pearl Hardware
Arduino Cult Induction, 10 Nov 2012, FreeGeek, $35
Time to go kick some leaves around…. Remember: This quarter is the most important quarter of your entire life. More information at http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/workshops/
My takeaways from the Open Hardware Summit.
Lucky me. Last week I go to go to the Open Hardware Summit in New York. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to go to the Open Hardware Summit. It was the first day teaching my continuing ed class at PNCA. Turns out there was some flexibility so I did get to go but… Read more »
Continuing Education for Dorks at PNCA
Physical Computing for Artists https://cereg.pnca.edu/p/adult/s/130 Theremins + Monophonic Synthesizershttps://cereg.pnca.edu/p/adult/s/129
Using the Arduino core as a library
Dumbest thing ever. For the last year I have been working with a piece of software that was started two years ago by another programmer in Arduino using the Arduino mega2560. It has since grown into several thousand lines of code across a small pile of libraries maintained in a git repository. There are units… Read more »