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 […]

Here I am in an electronics store in moscow buying soldering irons…

After reinstalling Precise Pangolin over Jaunty Jackolope (yah, I know, this was a linux install I did in 2008 which the owners of the computer never bothered to update) my ethernet drop on a Dell Optiplex 760 suddenly declared it was no longer managed. I at first thought it was the fault of the weird […]

Ilan and I built a foldable briefcase sized fabricator that can 3d print, mill, vinyl cut, and plot. Here episode one of introductions.

I don’t know what compels companies to come up with odd doohickeys […]

A couple of years ago I wrote this handout for how to solder surface mount components […]