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Like most people, this year I’ve been spending a lot of time indoors. The only catch is that it’s London summertime and no one has air conditioning in their homes. It’s been getting as high as 35° recently and I thought I’d try making myself a cheap air conditioning system to help me out. This project turned out to be pretty easy for once, and a lot of fun! Hardware 1x 2M Soft Copper Tube Copper…
Recently I attended the hacker camp Chaos Communication Camp which really got me motivated to get creative again with building side projects and specifically ones which GLOW because what’s the point of a hardware project if it doesn’t glow? I decided on building myself a lamp using the BBC micro:bit as it’s this super simple microcontroller made for children and comes jam packed with a bunch of…
Recently I read an incredible book by Michael Pollan called How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics . It’s split up really nicely into individual chapters on the biology, neuroscience, cultural history and his own personal tale of going from someone who’s never been exposed strong substances to really giving them a shot with an open mind. There’s also a lot said about the…
The recent GiveWell blog on staff member’s personal donations for 2018 got me thinking on how I really need to get-onboard with publicly stating how I plan on donating my time, money and life choices around making the world a better place. I think stating it and keeping track of it will really help in making sure my goals are met in 2019. So here it goes! Goals 1) Offset co2 emissions of my…
This is a small essay i’m mostly writing for myself to formally put my thoughts on paper on how I feel about obligatory altruism . I also think it’ll hopefully help others in seeing my thought process to avoid falling for the efficiency paradox explained below. Altruism is a moral obligation Michael Lewis’s Princeton talk was instrumental to my views on affluence. He explained how successful…
Recently I got a Parrot MiniDrone which is a really great piece of kit. The drone already comes with a built in down-facing camera however i’ve been looking for an excuse to do a Raspberry Pi Zero camera project for a while now, so I thought this would be a great chance to put to 2 together. The project was a lot harder than I expected due to the very tight weight limit the drone could hold while…
As the end of 2019 slowly approaches I thought it’s better late than never to finish writing up about a project I worked on exactly three years ago in 2016 and never got around to publishing. I’ve had the draft of this post sitting on a trello card for three whole years under a list called “To Do (never happening)” so here’s me proving that wrong! This summer I decided to do a project I’ve been…
Recently I worked on a side project where I built a wearable camera out of a Rasperry Pi. I had previously bought a Narrative Clip and was a little disappointed by quality and knew hacking together my own solution could be possible. I was also about to go on a holiday where I would be traveling to 4 countries in 5 days, so the timing was perfect. I started off by punching a hole through the strap…
IoThenticate was a project Eric , Uros and I built at Startupbootcamp FinTechathon where we researched and prototyped a solution to help banks better secure their customers using modern technology. We spoke to the folks running the hackathon who explained how banks were pretty confident in how their own technology runs however a problem they’ve never managed to mitigate is their customers being…
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