Project: For all time
Some great projects are very personal. Or, at least, only the maker really understands the driving forces that led to the creation. And, yes, this is one of tho...
Category: The Narrative
Ever-evolving organizational management
I’ve been full-out making for about twenty months (as I count them). As I get deeper into building more complex projects based on microcontrollers, bare c...
Making at the molecular level
The way everyone has been tracking and talking about viral variants of COVID-19 has been quite interesting. The start of the pandemic was a live-lab teaching mo...
Many new things for me last week
Just a quick post about some new things I am proud to have learned in the past week (plus a bonus from the week before last). BadgelifeOn Friday, I received som...
The miracle of mundane
I stumbled upon a nice article from a buddhist about how folks who work hard at finding the extraordinary in the exceptional are looking in the wrong place: the...
COVID-themed Halloween fun, and more
As Halloween approached, I thought I could have some fun and make something to put on my front stoop. I figured a Coronavirus would make a great and thematicall...
What does Empathy look like? Dignity?
I regularly look for interesting intersections of tech, art, and meaning. This installation on Empathy reminded me of discussions from years ago aroun...
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 ...
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...