Reprogramming the Botanicalls, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
If your Botanicalls kit doesn’t work as described, the microcontroller may need to be reprogrammed.
Check out the notes and links on this flickr photo for illustration, and follow the detailed instructions on the Botanicalls ‘Customize’ page.
Geeking out around the house, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
Lately, I’ve been doing the exercises in Making Things Talk.
I put some pictures here.
This last week, I was invited by Dave Gray to the 2008 Sarasota International Design Summit.
There really is too much to summarize in a single post, but here are some of the highlights as I saw them.
People
I had the honor of meeting and befriending some amazing folks. A partial list:
Jennifer Magnolfi, Matt Jones, Timo Arnall, [...]
Danny Hillis wrote a wonderful article about working with Richard Feynman, at Thinking Machines:
In the meantime, we were having a lot of trouble explaining to people what we were doing with cellular automata. Eyes tended to glaze over when we started talking about state transition diagrams and finite state machines. Finally Feynman told [...]
Alex De Carvalho, via Twitter:
I, too, find [Social Objects] a useful paradigm for web service design and community building.
Stop me if I’m wrong, but this is what I got out of the concept: A social object is something that you care about enough to form a social bond around. It’s an interesting, external [...]
It seems that comment spam and blog comments have done some subtle damage.
You see, until just now, I had Wordpress set so that only previously-approved authors got automatically accepted for comments. I figured, that was enough — if you’ve posted before, no problem. Otherwise, hold for moderation, and I’d just accept the real comments.
Then I [...]
Some time around late 1994, a friend and I were in a computer lab, poking around the glacial internet. We were alone in the lab, because everyone else had worthwhile things to do.
With a flourish, my friend fired up a new program he’d found, and showed me the home page for the Mosaic Netscape 0.9 [...]