My short-term solution to the tuned light issue.

My short-term solution to the tuned light issue.

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Coworker just got an Android tablet. A Xoom, I think. He can't find Swype and looked at an altern...

Coworker just got an Android tablet. A Xoom, I think. He can't find Swype and looked at an alternate keyboard. He rejected TouchPal because he couldn't figure out why a keyboard should have full Internet access.

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Reshared post from James Long Keep moving!!!!

Keep moving!!!!

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Greatist.com recommended these. I'm afraid if I ever got 'em, I'd come off like Captain Queeg.

Greatist.com recommended these.



I'm afraid if I ever got 'em, I'd come off like Captain Queeg.

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Interesting measure. I don't know either number, though. Well, I kinda think I'm at a 15-minute m...

Interesting measure. I don't know either number, though. Well, I kinda think I'm at a 15-minute mile.

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When in school, I used to hear it said that CS was the bastard child of Math and Electrical Engin...

When in school, I used to hear it said that CS was the bastard child of Math and Electrical Engineering. It's fairly fundamental: Turing's take on the Church-Turing Thesis is a very engineering-oriented (the Turing Machine) and Church's take (and McCarthy's implementation, LISP) is barely out of mathematical notation.



Similarly, I've been saying for a while that "All Science is Computer Science" because practically everything that could be learned without computer assistance has been covered by an ever-growing number of scientists for a long time. Yes, that's hyperbole, but for a great many fields (Cook mentions Bioinformatics, a field close to my paycheck) it is very true.



If Computer Science is to be diffused across all disciplines (Processing makes a case for CS in Art, etc.) then what is the use of the CS department? Well, when you get into "Programming for Bioinformatics", "Programming for Physics", "Programming for Dietetics", there is a raft of common knowledge. Also, for all the comments that college isn't a trade school, a great number of people who go through treating it pretty much as one. One could argue that people have gone through Computer Science because Software Engineering programs haven't been available.



Anyway, as this is the 50th Anniversary of the country's oldest Department of Computer Science (Oct. 5 in Lawson. Go Boilers!), I think this something worth thinking about.

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I have drilled all the holes in my Arduino board. Now, the question is, are any of my traces any ...

I have drilled all the holes in my Arduino board. Now, the question is, are any of my traces any good?

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Looking at the FitBit store. I'm thinking One > Ultra, and I'm liking the Zip.

Looking at the FitBit store. I'm thinking One > Ultra, and I'm liking the Zip.

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Reshared post from Adafruit Industries http://youtu.be/HPeSTADDmHA Ladyada (+Limor Fried) dem...

http://youtu.be/HPeSTADDmHA



Ladyada (+Limor Fried ) demoing Heart Rate Receiver and Transmitter

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1016

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1017

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Reshared post from I'm an "Engineer" Who copies who? Re-share and Circle me if you like this..

Who copies who?



Re-share and Circle me if you like this..

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Reshared post from Limor Fried http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_...

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomputer_southampton.htm

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Data URLs considered Clever. Also, H armful.

Data URLs considered Clever. Also, H

armful.

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If you go with Python, you either need to do away with spaces out tabs, and you can't really do a...

If you go with Python, you either need to do away with spaces out tabs, and you can't really do away with spaces. I'm looking at you, editor built into Sikuli.

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Reshared post from Ron K Jeffries Think smaller. Extreme low power. Low cost. The trend is you...

Think smaller. Extreme low power. Low cost. The trend is your friend.

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Today, I'm wearing this shirt because 1) I used to be all into industrial so I own it (although n...

Today, I'm wearing this shirt because 1) I used to be all into industrial so I own it (although never a Front 242 album....) and 2) for the second day in a row, I weighed in at 242 lbs. (Yay me!) Also, 3) it fits pretty well now.



I know the image is a Soviet helecopter, of a type used during their decade in Afghanistan. (I'd guess a MI-24 "Hind", but no matter.) My real question is this: what does it say underneath it? I can tell it says "ФPOHTA!" but Google Translate gives me nothing. Any help?

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I think this is a neat use. I've been thinking that it might not be the best use. Right now, I'm ...

I think this is a neat use. I've been thinking that it might not be the best use.



Right now, I'm thinking that setting up a Jeenode to be powered by a 9-volt or something and putting that in a tupperware container or something. Set the pair connected (via USB? Serial? I forget) to a PC to listen for that one, and place that on top of the truck. Now, write something so that, if the Jeenodes disconnect, THEN it alerts. Put the tupperware on the top of the truck (where nobody would see it) with maybe a little gaffers tape or something, and if the truck moves, the tupperware goes with it (not being inside the farraday-cage of a truck body) and then you know. The smarts are inside where you control them more.



Anyway, that's about what I would've done. That is, if I had Jeenodes.

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Thinking about moving my other two PCs up here. And the bricks are sideways, not the hutch.

Thinking about moving my other two PCs up here.



And the bricks are sideways, not the hutch.

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In there is my etched circuit board, which will carry my next Arduino

In there is my etched circuit board, which will carry my next Arduino

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