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Tools are so much more fun to play with than they are to use

I have six weeks to do a hardware project, possibly with a practical application. Short of home soldering a roomba, I’m not sure what I should be up too.

anyDoor

Listening through doors with a glass never worked too well for us in real life.

How do humans learn language? According to the usage based model of construction grammar, language is inductively learned. Linguistic input can be interpreted by making analogies with previously seen language. However, how does one start to interpret linguistic input before one has experiences to compare it to? […]

India, inbetween

I flew to Ahmedabad from Moscow through Dubai, where I had a 5.5 hour layover from 11 to 4:30 AM. In Dubai, every single airport store was open all night, and there were so many of them! Along with chain fast food, coffee, and sandwich shops around the world. People are flying to such culturally […]

RFID friend monsters

RFID might also have a lot of practical applications, but it can also be used for entirely useless simple projects. In this project, RFID tags and readers embedded in stuffed monsters helped play crackly pizo speaker sounds when a friend was near.

the inversely proportional relation between technological ability and effort

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Tools are so much more fun to play with than they are to use

anyDoor

Language Acquisition

India, inbetween

RFID friend monsters