Over the past few months, I’ve been lucky enough to be invited by Kylie Peppler to participate in a couple of webcasts for the state department (the Bureau of International Information Programs at the U.S. Department of State, to be…

I was lucky enough to get my panel picked for SXSWEdu 2015, which happened this past March (yes, it’s taken me this long to update my website). The panel was called “Game Changers: Tools for Constructivist Learning“, and featured three…

I’m unsure of where to begin. I have many memories of Red, from when I was a young child running around ITP back when it was half the size, the Polaroids were non-digitized, and there was an actual library on…

Here’s the link to the archived version of the panel discussion I participated in this morning (along with awesome people like Don Miller, Kylie Peppler, Syed Salahuddin, and Toni Pizza), covering how to engage kids in learning through DIY and…

I’ve been invited by the Institute of Play in NYC to be on a live-over-the-internet panel discussion of why DIY tinkering and physical computing is important for children: “Join Playtime Online Wednesday, March 6 from 12–1PM EST to learn about…

If, for some reason, you want to watch me talk for an hour, here’s a link to the lecture I gave at Georgia Tech as part of the Nokia Invited Lecture Series on Mobile and Future Technologies. And while I’m…

My colleagues John Schimmel (of DIYAbility and NYU’s ITP), Jaymes Dec (of Marymount School, formerly of GreenFab), and I are putting on a workshop as part of the ACM SIGCHI Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC), which will be in…

After several years and many requests, I have finally put up the code for the Equipment Inventory System I wrote for Eyebeam back in 2007 or so.  I cleaned it up a *little* – mostly to remove all identifying info…

Recently found this little article in PopSci mentioning the Autoponics project I worked on last semester at CU, as part of an Advanced Robotics Seminar.  Neat! NASA Habitat Competition Looks For Bioregenerative Space Greenhouses | Popular Science.

My former colleagues at Eyebeam Art and Technology center in NYC have a Kickstarter campaign going, aimed at ‘Expanding Eyebeams Public Presence in Chelsea’ through the construction a new public bookstore / entrance / coffeeshop / presentation space.  Eyebeam has…

Check out this Forbes article on SparkFun and why it’s a pretty uniquely awesome place to work. These are all things that SparkFun practices and preaches.  I think a lot of companies could use a little more ‘SparkFun sauce’ in…

Hi internet!  So a little while back I posted an instructable on the UCube – a tangible interface for 3d modeling and design that I’m working on.  As it turns out, instructables is having an awesome contest, the ‘Make it…

I went to the first two Open Hardware Summit’s – not absolutely sure I’ll be there this year, but it wouldn’t be for the lack of quality of the event.  If you’re into producing, contributing to, or even consuming open…

Very excited about this project from Jay Silver.  I met Jay a few summers ago at a mini-conference in Boulder, struck me as one of the good guys.  Also very happy that SparkFun is involved in making the MaKey MaKey…

I’m going to the Eyeo festival at the beginning of next month with some of the SparkFun crew.  Very excited to meet a few of the creative coders that inspire some of my own work, and looking forward to catching…

This is an updated video showing some of the latest work on the UCube (mostly software-related). Production value is a little higher than last time, thanks to Final Cut.

Holy smokes. It’s been far too long. I’m finally done with finals so I have a teeny amount of time to update the website with all the stuff I’ve been working on.  I had an awesome summer at SparkFun, and…

I’ve added a few newer projets to the website, ModelHome v2 (w/ Nick O’Brien) and SocialHealth (w/ Sears Merritt). I also have a few pieces of good news: This summer, I’ll be working at SparkFun Electronics – one of the…

Finally got together a (semi) decent video for the UCube. Comments and feedback are most welcome.

So, in addition to my regular workload at the Craft Tech Lab, I’ve been staying late to do more ‘artistic’ work. I wrote up a couple of quick programs in processing, exported the results to .svg format, and sent the…

Last week I helped a few art students put together a text-to-speech setup using the SparkFun Voice Box board, the TTS-256 Speech to Text chip, and the SpeakJet synthesizer chip.  We’re not quite done working on it, but here are…

My first (semi) serious article on sustainable design for developing countries was just published at Elephant Journal.com check it out:

Here is a list of links I used to help research my article on sustainable design for developing countries (I will post a link to the artlice when it goes live). Thanks especially to Shagun Singh and John Dimatos for…

After spending most of the day on the laser cutter, inhaling what are undoubtedly toxic fumes, I have made some progress on the UCube. Nothing terribly exciting, but I did cut the rest of the Z-Axis poles, and improved the…

The president of the University of Colorado came to the Craft Technology Lab today, so everyone’s been working hard over the past week to get a short demo together. The not-enough-sleep feeling is not so good, but I did manage…