Work in progress: Life from light
I try to only post after I’ve completed a project, but this one has so many pieces (and is not done yet) that I wanted to already post some interesting th...
Category: Innovation
It’s time we hack the shit out of this virus
The subvariant, known as XBB, accounted for about 52.6% of all cases in New England during the period of time between Dec. 18 and Dec. 24, according to CDC data...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
The value of the open source community
One of the most valuable components of open source hardware and software making is availability of code and guides built by a community around a solution, hardw...