Fun with cardboard circuits
The usual progression for making printed circuits is (very roughly) you design the circuit, prototype it on a breadboard, design your PCB, and iterate on your P...
Category: Innovation
Rapidly leveling-up on a new, well-trodden path
In the past 8 months or so I’ve been on a journey to learn everything I can about microcontrollers, circuits, electronics, components, sensors, and embedded sof...
Project: Neopixel celebration goggles
I was checking out some DIY electronics at a local Microcenter, dying to buy something (hardware hacking has started to consume my attention, lately). I saw som...
ISAMI meetup April 26, 2017, Column Health Somerville
Hello folks, Next ISAMI meetup is scheduled! This month, Emily Lindmer and Vincent Valant, from Hey,Charlie will talk about their app, how they got to where the...
An ancient memorization strategy and becoming a Mentat
I was an avid reader of Frank Herbert’s Dune series of novels. One interesting thread in the books was that at some point, long before the start of the fi...
Select quotes from the conversation on AI between Barak Obama, MIT’s Joi Ito, and WIRED’s Scott Dadich
I finally got around to reading this interview transcript. Dadich moderates an interesting discussion between Ito and Obama mostly around AI, but also touching ...
Fitbit buying Pebble will NOT help it crack the code on smartwatches
For some reason, discussions of smartwatches make me twitch. Maybe it’s because I got my first smartwatch over 10 years ago.* Maybe it’s because I&#...
Peanut butter and chocolate moment: AI goes great with…?
I have an ideation game I play called “Peanut Butter and Chocolate.” Basically, it’s mashing two seemingly unrelated things to think of how th...
Come down to earth: some hidden truths about AI
You know that a tech trend is growing when there are more conferences and training programs than you can shake a stick at. And also, the trend is picked up by t...
Talk to the hand – and the computer, and the home device, and the…
At the core of what is going to drive this new wave of adoption of AI will be the “conversational interface.”* We spoke a bit about bots, and how th...