I will not propose projects here. I strongly realized I didn’t believe in M1lk enough to follow through with it. I do believe in serious games in social communication but I am not going to to create something AND seek to build a a community at the same time. I won’t last.
After M1lk I began [...]
It is a just a realm to explore social taxonomy. I never even got it rolling and have since abandoned it is as means to develop taxonomic ideas.
It was supposed to be a website for categorizing games. The process of categorizing games was going to be game-like unto itself and thus easier for adoption by [...]
I thought so. The WordPress clock is off. I posted this at 12:25pm PST not 7:25 pm. Anyway the point of this post is that whether or not my last post was at 4:43am, since then I had clearly accepted defeat.
It was difficult through the rest of the semester, and neophyte electronics, my friend, is [...]
Honestly I can’t believe I haven’t posted since I had been forcibly humbled by a failing grade in my major subject. Since then I had my hours cut in half, I had been healing a achilles heel condition that has kept me from working out, my laptop died for good, I lost my mind to [...]
But not for long.
Class begins again on August 16th. That leaves me 11 weeks to replenish my bank account and attempt to enjoy some free time working on projects, especially that of Watching Machines. It is not lost on me, though, how poverty stricken I am in terms of free time or meeting the tab that comes with the cost [...]
Not for the Maker Faire. I dropped out of San Mateo’s faire this month, stayed in for October in Austin. It’s next week anyway, not two weeks.
No, two weeks more before the end of finals, after which I can safely and responsibly be obsessive about hobbying.
I haven’t done a lick of work, since I had [...]
A day later I learn from a page on the Seattle Robotics Society’s web newsletter, Encoder, that I can in fact solder those tiny bug sized IC’s that left me itchy yesterday. In fact I can do it using a toaster oven and a special ordered compound! It looks like a fun experiment, but unfortunately at this point [...]
An artist named Niklas Roy created this beautiful object called Grafikdemo.
Notice how the green wire mesh teapot is slightly off screen? That’s because it’s not a visual display, it’s a real wire mesh teapot! Roy explains his process in an interview on Gizmodo:
When I started to build it, it was funny to recognizebthat I did [...]
I have the cycles of the washing machine measured at last. I am ready to build a circuit.
I thought I would start with the easiest one first. All it does is light an LED when a load of almost any kind comes through the wire. The voltage just has to make it through resistor R5 [...]
Forget about that claw I posted about earlier. It looks cool but I couldn’t find a multimeter to work with it. The first one I purchased for $10 that didn’t have a “range” indicated in the claw’s specs. as you know. I went to Discount Builders with the claw’s booklet. It says:
The 72-555 is designed [...]
