Optoisolation and tangible concept demonstration
I work at a company that offers hardware-based cybersecurity products and services. Our major product is a network appliance, called a data diode, that restrict...
Category: The Narrative
Building another tangible experience
At the end of last year, one of our product managers heard about my bioreactor demo. He thought it would be great to have something similar for software he was ...
Learning to KiCad with the other foot
My wife, who was a crack soccer player in her youth and an overall able athlete, is full of sport metaphors for life. One, particularly relevant to the story to...
Acquiring new skillz, one achievement and a time
I am reminded of D&D, where everyone starts at Level 1 and you need to go adventuring to gain experience. Overlaid on that, each character has their class a...
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...
Getting back to the physical world
I first heard of the distinction between bits and atoms to describe the digital and physical worlds back in the mid-90s. Back then, atoms ruled – books, factori...
Thoughts on personal data usage in the age of ‘peak data selling’
The way we use deep personal data needs to change. Indeed, I’ve been saying this for a few years now. As everyone knows, megacorps like Google and Faceboo...
New obsession, new future?
Last September I wanted to go to a conference in Sweden and my boss asked me what I would do different from my attendance at the US edition of the event the pri...
Public/private messaging and Twitter’s stalled growth
The news today that Twitter didn’t grow in the past quarter had me scratching my head. Twitter did not add any new monthly active users in the past three ...
Might the losers of the smartphone boom suggest the losers of the wrist-top wars with smartwatches?
I recently saw (via CBInsights) this graphic of the impact smartphones had on the sales in different consumer electronic categories. Back in Nokia’s heyda...