PCB Design and Fabrication

October 20th, 2008

Sixth week: Design a PCB and fab it

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I designed a breakout board for the Telit GE-863.

The knocking interface!

October 12th, 2008

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Programming Microcontrollers

October 6th, 2008

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Eulogy

October 1st, 2008

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It’s a very deniable state of confusion.

PCB fabrication and board stuffing

September 29th, 2008

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This is a circuit of flexible copper traces cut on the sign cutting machine. It is stuck to a heat-enduring sticker, which I can put anywhere! Including my fridge.

Press-fit Geodesic Dome

September 16th, 2008

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How never to forget anything

September 6th, 2008

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What if your clothes knew what you were carrying with you, and could tell you if you were forgetting something?

I moved to the United States

August 27th, 2008

An entirely astonishing country.
The washing machines in my building are networked and report to a website showing whether or not they are in use. As to not make the 3 flight trip in vain.
In the guide to my future lab:
Be warned the candy machine is the “screw” type that fails to rotate sufficiently to […]

Dance Dance Dance

May 7th, 2008

(not that I like Murakami, nor the Steve Miller band)
I recently decided that true love is just the amount of obscure references you can drop and still know what the other is talking about. Score on quantifiables, possibly even countably infinite.
True love is not found through shared consumer experience:
“Wow, you have a Mac too?”
“Yeah, but […]

Why is poetry so often

March 18th, 2008

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about poetry? Lines on meter, rhyme, rhythm. Communicating about communication, a meta level unbaffling, easily formalized. A diary about la vie quotidienne: I am writing, I am writing, I am writing, writing writing…