Unlocking value in plain sight: not as common as you’d think
I like to walk expo floors that have a lot of machines, gadgets, and gizmos and engage with vendors, doing some research and testing out some ideas. Last fall, ...
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Why changing your spots is hard: shifting a business from hardware to software
Shifting from a hardware business to a software business is not easy. Organizations need to be prepared to make the changes necessary to succeed.
Living the IoT dream: adding to my vaccine fridge monitor
In a previous post, I talked about how I worked on a vaccine fridge monitor that was designed to alert me over Pushover if anything was going on with the fridge...
How I’ve built an LTE-based vaccines fridge monitor
Everyone these days knows the importance of keeping vaccines safe and functional. This is the same, of course, with veterinary vaccines. A local veterinarian I ...
One big wish for CircuitPython in 2022
I thought I could add my voice to the folks sharing their wishes for CircuitPython in 2022. Boards I likeI was really pleased with how many boards came out last...
Pocket Universe
This is a chapter from a book I wrote during NanoWriMo 2011. The story was about folks who ‘shepherded’ marine mammals and fish (with the aid of dol...
Riffing off a rant about technology
I stumbled upon a brief rant on technology by Ursula LeGuin via The Prepared. Great stuff. Alas, I required a bit more than a tweet for me to riff off of it. &#...
Pause for station identification
I’ve been posting these pauses for almost 17 years. They are meant to give folks a quick overview of where I am at, but when I look at them, they serve a ...
Building this gyro watch winder was like jazz
Isn’t making one big jam session? Many decades ago, my mother bought my father a Tissot Seastar Seven. A very simple watch, which also has its own pendulu...
You think you know how EEPROMs fail? Think again.
The Death and Deathlessness* project was my exploration of life, death, and immortality. EEPROMs, the permanent memory in some chips, have finite life for writi...