Another tangible concept: seeing through time
I finally finished my second project of my year’s project challenge. OK, I had planned to finish it three weeks ago, but life is needy. In any case, here ...
Author: charlie
How I made my Game of Life: Contagion Mode, Rose Garden Massacre Edition
A few months back, I made a Multimode Game of Life (GoL) that could do the usual GoL, a mode with two populations coexisting, a mode where one population compet...
Makers in the Mittelstand and the business of making
Long before I started tinkering in electronics, I have had a fascination with the Mittelstand. The Mittelstand refers to small- and medium-sized, usually privat...
Project hiccups already
Today is the 16th of the month. I had challenged myself to a project a month (from 15th to 15th – don’t ask). My first project was a multi-mode game...
Multi-mode Game of Life
I’ve reached the end of the first month of my year-long monthly project challenge.* The first project I went with was a version of Conway’s Game of ...
Mundane ‘aha!’ moments, mistakes, and mental models
A while back, I bought some LED pendants that I put on my dogs when I send them our into the yard at night to do their business. The pendants help me see where ...
The Twelve Projects of Charlie
Based on my notes, on 15jul20 I will have completed one year since I started researching and designing a project for work that set me off on my crazy maker ride...
Working up to a proto step by step
I just posted a description of a tangible concept demo I recently built. There were a few new things in this, such as learning how to use the serial connection,...
Optoisolation and tangible concept demonstration
I work at a company that offers hardware-based cybersecurity products and services. Our major product is a network appliance, called a data diode, that restrict...
Building another tangible experience
At the end of last year, one of our product managers heard about my bioreactor demo. He thought it would be great to have something similar for software he was ...