12 May
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 08:00 PM
Tags: diy, make, microcontrollers, msp430, ti
I finally got my TI MSP430 Microcontrollers. I am pretty excited to see what i can do with them. Lets see…
27 Feb
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 08:45 PM
Tags: ambient, diy, embedded, hacking, led, make, nabaztag, takeapart, wifi
I got my gumstix today and was lauding the fanciness of the smallest comptuer i have EVER seen, explaining to my coworker Dan how i was going to build an ambient orb/nabaztag like device that will integrate with my bluetooth phone and my pbx. he was impressed of course ;) - and told me that [...]
13 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 06:56 AM
Tags: ambient, cold, diy, future, google, hacks, sick
seirously. i just lay in bed. feeling sick. breathing out of my mouth and bummed that i can’t sleep.
so i thought up a couple interesting ideas that i would like to take up in the next couple months. First - a set of discrete devices that are connected via a bluetooth PAN. like a small [...]
12 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 09:14 PM
Tags: ambient, diy, embedded, gumstix, linux, qee
Awhile ago i picked myself up an ambient orb. It is a really cool idea - basically a device that will let you see information at a glance. For example - seeing how a server is doing based on the orbs color, or seeing what the weather is like based on the color. a lot [...]
05 Oct
Posted by Harper in General at 03:06 AM
Tags: audio, books, diy, hifi, literature, sadness, society, stereo, violent
So i have been reading these short, sad, very violent books about society. It is pretty rough.
the first i read was A Personal Matter by Kenzoburo Oe which was about this lostish young man whose wife gives birth to a baby with a severe birth defect. The book is about his struggle to understand [...]
haha.
anyway.. i am going to build out a new stereo for my room. i am pretty excited. It will be a simple inexpensive/expensive hifi system. some good speakers, a preamp, a good amp, a cd player, an ipod dock and that is about it. I have been excited about the T-amp from Sonic Impact [...]
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