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...
Category: The Narrative
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...
Multi-mode Game of Life
I’ve reached the end of the first month of my year-long monthly project challenge.* The first project I went with was a version of Conway’s Game of ...
The Twelve Projects of Charlie
Based on my notes, on 15jul20 I will have completed one year since I started researching and designing a project for work that set me off on my crazy maker ride...