She turned me into a Gnewt! I got better...
This is a project I ve been working on for the past week or so. It s live now, and I wanted to share the codebase. This post is more or less exactly the README from the GitHub repo bhs_sales, so head there if you want to get right to it. Intro The BHS Class of 2014 [ ]
Note: I wrote this post in Ghost originally, check it out! This year I m in a Humanities class. To finalize the semester, each student presents a Creative Project. The project includes a 10-15 line recitation from one of the texts we ve read, a supplement (art piece, sculpture, song, dance, etc.), and a 5-7 minutes talk. [ ]
This is my Node.js hello world. It s a weekend project that allows you to control GE Color Effects lights over the internet through the use of a Raspberry Pi (running nginx and a Node.js application) connected to an Arduino. Like I say in the video, I think it may be possible to control the data [ ]
Just something I found and thought was kind of cool. I m currently working on a project that uses Django for its frontend, but eventually passes the user to a JavaScript frontend that talks to the Node.js / Redis backend with Socket.IO. I needed a way to store data in Redis whenever a specific Django model [ ]
Today, a smartphone-connected taxi company called Uber is operating five ice cream trucks in Seattle. You click a button in the Uber app and select your location, and an ice cream truck comes to you. Or at least that s what should happen. Even with today s weather (read: periodic torrential rain), people are clamoring to get their [ ]
Caller ID spoofing has been around for a long time. Way back when (well, 2004), an article was published on rootsecure.net with an included Perl script, detailing how to use Asterisk to change your caller ID information, in order to pretend to be somebody else. I had some fun toying with that (heh...), and noticed [ ]
EDIT: Yes, the linked list solution is not the most efficient one (and in fact could be dangerous if used with much more memory than this when malloc d on a small chip like the Arduino). The right way is using a circular buffer. A sketch utilizing a circular buffer has been added to the github project. [ ]
I returned from Maker Faire Bay Area yesterday. The wonderful mix of conference, expo, and fair always fills me with a lot of energy to make things. Just being around people like the members of Noisebridge, the inventors of sugru, Mitch Altman (inventor of the TV-B-Gone), etc., osmotically sparks my creativity and leaves me thinking: [ ]
I d like to extend a thank you to San Francisco s Noisebridge hackerspace for being so hospitable and friendly towards me during my time here. On Friday when I arrived in SFO, I took the BART straight to Noisebridge and hung out there till that night. It was nice to be in an environment where I [ ]
We recently acquired a pole pig at the lab. We bought it off a guy who didn t have time for a high voltage hobby any more, and so far we ve made a Jacob s ladder with it, and used it to make fulgurites. Fulgurites are the figures made by lightning hitting sand (or other melty grainy [ ]