Monthly Archives: February 2007

Watching Machines

Last night I submitted my proposal to the administrators of the Maker Faire via a web form they provide. After I did most of the project description I had to come up with a name for the project.  This is what I came up with. What do you think?

Good News

I forgot to tell you. Before we went to Vegas we used the washing machine. It works!

Winky

                                                                                                                                                                                         Here’s a good display idea. I found this on MAKE magazine’s blog. This is the kind of abnormal data display that I am interested in exploring. It’s a latent cultural form that may come unto it’s own, if I have any say. I’d like to see custom electronic culture reach these proportions. [...]

Learn as I go

How to:
Measure Current (and why)
First of all why not measure voltage (V)? Isn’t “high voltage” the thing that’ll kill you. The mover and shaker of all the electromechanical world we live in?
Well not technically. Technically current is the killer app, measured in amperes (A) but annotated as “I”. Voltage is [...]

Prologue

Yesterday, I received my free Washing Machine. This is my first serious project.Today I also have to read Maya Angelou and do “Linked List” programming in Java. I don’t get to play with it yet. In otherwords I am in school.
It still seems like a good opportunity to start a journal about what I go [...]