Interdisciplinary Sustainability Student Summit
This event was featured in the Cornell Chronicle on 11/01/2011 This past weekend was the first annual Interdisciplinary Sustainability Student Summit (ISSS). I organized the event along with my fellow Cornell University Sustainable Design team leaders. The summit, held at the General Assembly in New York City’s Flatiron district, hosted[…]
Cornell Daily Sun Science Spotlight
I was recently profiled (along with Brian Shiffer – a fellow hacker and good friend) in the Cornell Daily Sun. You can read the whole article here. Both of us attended MakerFaire NYC and the Open Hardware Summit. I presented my sudoglove at the Open Hardware Summit, and I worked[…]
Guest on the ZombieTech Podcast
Ever wanted to know how I would survive in a zombie apocalypse? What tools would I bring? How would I prepare food? Would I be able to survive without arduinos in a post-apocalyptic zombie-infested world? These are questions that I had never pondered, until tymkrs invited me to answer these questions on[…]
Open Hardware Summit and Maker Faire Wrapup
Yes, that’s me with the Arduino Team at Makerfaire! If you follow me on twitter, then you’ll certainly know that I spent last weekend in New York City for the 2nd Annual Open Hardware Summit and the 2011 World Maker Faire. I covered the Open Hardware Summit for element14 Electronics (hence[…]
Interview in the Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell University Sustainable Design, the student design-build initiative that I lead, was recently featured in Cornell’s Daily Sun newspaper. I spoke with a sun writer about the lofty goals that we have for our Sustainability Research Facility (SRF) project. Head over to the daily sun site, and give it a[…]
MakerBot Thing-O-Matic Build Timelapse
This video is long overdue. I put my very own MakerBot 3D Printer together during my last week working at MakerBot this summer. In case you can’t tell from the video, I pulled a Red Bull and pizza-fueled all-nighter to assemble it. It was more fun that way. Big thanks are[…]
Help Put me on a Times Square Billboard!
Update: I didn’t win, but thanks for voting, and congrats to all the people who did win! I’m calling in a favor! About.me (a really awesome website if you aren’t familiar with it) is holding a contest to put some of its highest-rated profiles on a giant screen in New[…]
Hacker Highlights: Easton’s Hand Strikes Again
This post was featured on Hackaday.com on 8/29/2011 This post was featured on Ponoko.com on 9/01/2011 This post was featured on Makerbot.com on 9/01/2011 Remember [Easton’s] Robotic Hand from a few months ago? We’ll he hasn’t been resting on his laurels since winning the regional science fair and going to[…]
Review: WickedDevices Arduino LCD Shield
It’s LCD mania! Following my review of the Lumex 16×2 Character LCD from element14 and my recent tutorial on interfacing an Arduino with an LCD display, I have one more LCD-related post up my sleeve. WickedDevice, a small open source hardware company based in Ithaca, NY, sent me their LCD[…]