I am super excited to announce that my company Bug Labs will be hosting, along with partners Creative Commons, Maker Faire, Little Bits, eyebeam and NYSCI, what I think is the world’s first conference devoted solely to the open source hardware movement. We’re calling it the Open Hardware Summit and you are cordially invited to [...]
Boy Genius Report got it’s hands on the latest Verizon Wireless summer device catalog. It’s a beautifully produced brochure that lays out what VZW hopes will be a killer collection of hard-to-resist wireless gadgets. But the truth is, it’s not really a “device” catalog. It’s actually a cell phone catalog. And as such it’s not [...]
In my 2010 Top Ten Predictions my #1 had to do with the future of connected cars. It just seems like too good an opportunity to ignore. Even for me. So we made a quick video with my company Bug Labs to demonstrate a bit of what I’m talking about. You can check it out [...]
Over the past couple weeks I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time with children aged 6 – 8, working with them on technology projects. It’s been said so many times before, but it just needs repeating – a child’s view of the world and how it does/should work are incredibly enlightening. They are not [...]
It would be great if I were talking about the new stuff I’ve been seeing and hearing about at CES 2010. But I’m not. I’m just taking the latest headline from Apple’s App Store and repurposing it here to make a point. Hardware innovation is nothing compared to software innovation. Yes, there are some very, [...]
What better way to start the year than to stick your neck way out and take a few chances. I’ve decided it’s my theme for the year anyway so what the heck. It will be a whole 12 months before I need to pay the piper, so what have I got to lose?
Some of these [...]
Work has been consuming all my free time lately. But the next step in the HH1 project is adjusting the AC cord so that it’s not as inconvenient as the current one (see the pix in the post below). Hopefully will have this complete this week and ready for testing. More soon.
Last night I reached a milestone that gives me pleasure to announce. I was officially (and indelicately) woken up by my custom gadget according to the heart rate threshold programmed into it. This event caps a multi-week effort to build and program this device and I’m gratified that it’s been a success. And I’m basically [...]
So according to my time line I should be conducting experiments using a BUG to turn on something that would wake me up based on my heart rate. Up till now, I had the set up displayed in the top diagram at left – a device that measured, stored and transmitted my heart rate [...]
I’ve gotten a number of questions lately about how this device works, so for the sake of clarity, I’ve posted, at left, the data flow diagram for the HH1 device (see the posts below for more information on what the HH1 experiment is all about). It’s pretty straightforward, which is the point really. I want [...]
