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Fitting TED talk for my blog and quite an amazing presentation.

blink(1) mk2 for the win…

Last week I finally received my two new shiny blink(1) mk2 USB RGB “things”; these were rewards for helping fund the KickStarter project from ThingM. The mk2 is the second generation and even cooler version of thier RGB blink(1) devices…. Continue Reading →

Preparedness 101

With all the natural disasters in the news today, I thought about how so many people are becoming more self-reliant and how that’s such a great thing. But then I thought about how many people must go through their day… Continue Reading →

Stocking up on those parts you use the most….

  I’ve never really “stocked” up on parts for my projects as I always just ordered the minimum parts I needed for each project. I guess I did buy the pack of assorted resistors from Radio Shack back when I… Continue Reading →

New WiFly Shield Library (fork)

Update: This board design and firmware were just far too buggy. I was very excited to see the Arduino team had answered everyone’s request with a WiFi shield and it rocks. http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoWiFiShield   Just wanted to let folks know that… Continue Reading →

IKEA Lampan RGB LED Light

A few months ago, I saw this blog and video. The gentlemen had hacked a Lampan light from IKEA with LEDs, I was immediately enamored with the idea of building it and giving a few of them to my young… Continue Reading →

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