Crumbs!

Space monkey! (From 21st amendment’s Bitter American )

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:13:25 -0800

Space monkey! (From 21st amendment’s Bitter American )

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:36:19 -0800

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came.”

- John F. Kennedy

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/case-study-building-a-better-mixer/

Mon, 02 May 2011 14:45:46 -0700

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/case-study-building-a-better-mixer/:

lime cordial recipe, buried under a big article.

Time tracking, with code!

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:31:53 -0800

I’ve spent some more time working on my toggl physical interface:

The timer now uses the more familiar mechanic of an old-fashioned punchclock
the RFID reader is only reset when a card is read (speeds up reads)

The arduino reader unit handles the reading of tags. On punch-out, the reader prints the tag id, and the number of seconds between punch-in time and punch-out time. the toggl.py script reads this, and creates an entry for the time on toggl.

Still haven’t taken the time to make schematics just yet, but the connections are fairly straightforward.

The code is up over at github

somewhere under there is falafel and halloumi. tasty lunch in...

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:36:52 -0800

somewhere under there is falafel and halloumi. tasty lunch in Camden!

palm tree on a leash!

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:07:53 -0800

palm tree on a leash!

soda bread!

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:34:18 -0700

soda bread!

Google reader suggested this article:...

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:25:35 -0700

Google reader suggested this article: http://www.psfk.com/2010/10/a-day-in-the-life-of-young-adults-without-the-internet.html

i think they’re trying to tell me something.

Asteroids everywhere

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:08:46 -0700

Asteroids everywhere:

this may just become my new measure for “visual complexity” of web UI. “this web site is awful, i scored >5000 points”

not much to look at, but this is my new time tracking device.

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:14:20 -0700

not much to look at, but this is my new time tracking device.

Time tracking, with tokens.

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:38:57 -0700

A while back, I was shown (http://toggl.com)[Toggl], a website that allows you to track how you spend your time. The site is great, but what if my current task (or hobby) doesn’t involve a computer?

I’ve just completed a functional prototype for a physical interface to Toggl. Tokens, containing RFID tags, are placed on a time-tracking pedestal. An Arduino microcontroller beneath the pedestal notices that a token has been put on the pedestal, and starts tracking how long it has been there. When the tag is removed, it outputs the tag number, and the number of seconds the tag was present.

This data is read by a small python script, which looks up the tag number, maps it to a Toggl project name, and creates a new task in that project.

All that’s left is to design an enclosure that is both awesome and functional.

Worry Isn't Work - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:26:40 -0700

Worry Isn't Work - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review:

“The Puritans had a strong work ethic. They also burned witches at the stake and massacred Native American women and children. We need new role models.”

http://schuhlelewis.blogspot.com/2010/10/carry-on.html

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:19:14 -0700

http://schuhlelewis.blogspot.com/2010/10/carry-on.html

cake pirate ship!

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:43:03 -0700

cake pirate ship!

Photo

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:44:00 -0700

Chris Eckert is pretty awesome. I love the exposed mechanical elements in Gimme.

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:33:10 -0700

Chris Eckert is pretty awesome. I love the exposed mechanical elements in Gimme.

Teensy?

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:30:06 -0700

Anyone have experience working with Teensy?

the builtin USB support would make it great for making physical controls for software systems.

android: sending SMS message on Verizon

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:01:42 -0700

Sometimes, writing android apps is harder than writing iPhone apps. Mostly, because android phones run on a wide variety of carrier networks, each with their own “quirks”…

For the last couple years, android apps could send text messages with the following snippet of code:

import android.telephony.gsm.SmsManager;
// some other stuff omitted.
SmsManager sm = SmsManager.getDefault();
sm.sendTextMessage(destination, service_center, "my message", null, null);

That only works because of the following assumptions: * your phone is on a GSM network * the destination specified knows how to send your message back to the proper recipient.

With the Verizon Droid series of phones, neither of those assumptions hold.

For the first, the newer android releases (>=2.1, i think), supply the android.telephony.SmsManager class, which has the same interface.

The second, i’ve found, is a bit more complicated. All email-to-sms-gateway’d messages on verizon come from the same 4-digit code “6245” (aka- MAIL on a numeric keypad). This gateway does not store any state on which messages were sent from which email addresses, so all responses must include the intended destination address.

To that end, i’ve added a new preference to Klaxon, under “Sms Settings” called “Send Destination”. If you are on Verizon, you will need to ensure that this box is checked, otherwise your messages will not arrive at their intended destination.

Reference links: Wikipedia list of Email to Sms gateways stackoverflow answer

beer menu from Hair of the Dog in Portland. The Greg was really...

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:16:42 -0700

beer menu from Hair of the Dog in Portland. The Greg was really interesting.

Sunday afternoon in Portland!

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:24:11 -0700

Sunday afternoon in Portland!