Happy 10/10/10 Celebrate Improbability Day (10/10/10, or 101010, or 42, depending on how you look at it) by doing something improbable. I celebrated by waking up at 10:10:10, wearing a towel, and changing … 2010-10-10 events
Talk at Ada’s Technical: success! The talk went very well. There was much animated discussion, and electrical zapping was had by all. Thank you Ada’s for having me, and thanks to everyone who came out! 2010-09-20 electricity > events > physics > radio > science
Speaking at Ada’s Technical Books this Sunday! I’m very excited to be speaking at Ada’s Technical Books on Capitol Hill this Sunday 9/19, from 4:00-6:00pm. I’ll show some nice photos of wireless projects in Africa and Italy, followed by some … 2010-09-17 electricity > events > radio
Scoring a dewar from the U.W. My buddy yoyojedi got quite the score at the last U.W. public auction: a 35 liter dewar, for only $150! The folks at Central Welding (our preferred purveyors of liquid nitrogen) had never seen one so … 2010-09-14 science #citizen science
Bussard on polywell fusion Here is the classic Google Tech Talk from Robert Bussard (yes, the ramjet guy). In it he talks about a design for a novel fusion reactor he developed for the DoD over the course of eleven years. He wa… 2010-09-13 electricity > physics #science #fusion
Server room We built a server / laser cutter room to contain the noise. Watch us build it in 45 seconds! Highlights: 04:27:46 PM: My first powder driven nail shot with Thor’s Amazing Wham Hammer (thx, 3ric) … 2010-05-11 hackery #hackerspace
Adventures with Eagle <img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” class=”size-medium wp-image-290 alignright” title=”layout” src=”uploads/2010/05/layout-300x158.pngThanks to my extremely… 2010-05-03 electricity #electronics #pcb design
Go go gadget go-kart! Thanks to help and instigation from 3ric, Ian, and Sirus, the go-kart is up and running. Not autonomous yet, but it does make the morning coffee run a lot more fun. (Flickr set) 2010-04-26 hackery #hackerspace
Lab log: April 2, 2010 It’s very good to be back at the Unit. I enjoyed the work (and play!) in Italy, but five weeks is too long to be away. Here’s what I’ve been researching this week: Particle beam physics. I have an ide… 2010-04-03 hackery
The Venezia Experiments Two full days in Venice. First we measured the effect of strong motorboat waves on a hand-rowed two person boat called a mascaréta. We used seven wireless accelerometers (Waspmotes w/ Zigbee modu… 2010-03-17 radio #ICTP