Tutorial 2 for Arduino: Now with more Blinky Things!
This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 That’s right folks, it’s Monday, and the second installment of my arduino tutorial series is here! I spent the last week in Disney World, but now that I’m back, it’s time to get down to business! This week, I’ll[…]
Tutorial Series for Arduino: It begins.
This video was featured on the Adafruit Blog on 01/06/11 This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 This video was featured on the DIYFilm Blog on 03/19/11 Thanks to a generous sponsorship from element14, I’m putting together a tutorial series on using the arduino microcontroller platform! […]
Building an Engineer [Ignite Talk 2010]
This video was featured on the Adafruit Blog on 12/22/10 This video was featured on the Dangerous Prototypes Blog on 12/22/10 This video was featured on the Makezine Blog on 12/22/10 The talented Jonas Neubert, an associate of mine from Cornell’s Computational Synthesis Lab, as well as the organizer of[…]
Lian Li PC-A05N Black Mini PC Case Review
A new review! We actually filmed this months ago, around the same time that I released the video of my new computer. But, the semester got underway, and I didn’t get a chance to edit it until now. This is a great little case, with a surprising amount of room[…]
Cornell University Sustainable Design
This has been a busy semester! After working on Cornell’s entry into the 2009 Solar Decathlon Competition, several of the team members and I determined that we had the power to do something really amazing with the knowledge we had gained and resources we have available to us at Cornell. […]
Ignite Ithaca 2010
Watch the Live Stream of the Event! Enlighten Us. But make it quick! That’s the motto of the Ignite Speaker series. The premise is that a bunch of presenters go up in front of an audience, and talk about something cool. Each person gets 5 minutes, and 20 slides that[…]
Driving 5 Speakers Simultaneously with an Arduino
This post was featured on the Hack-a-Day Blog on 9/14/10 Mimi Yin has a neat implementation of this code for an interactive sculpture. I’m working on a project where I want to drive 5 speakers independently – each with a variable volume and set frequency (though the frequency of each[…]
Upgrading my Computer (Ultimate Computer 5 –> 8)
This year, I decided to move out of the dorms at Cornell, and rent an apartment with 4 friends. Naturally, we wanted to have some kind of entertainment system, but didn’t want to pay a monthly cable bill, since we hardly watch live TV anyways (hulu is where it’s at). […]
How to *Properly* Apply and Remove Thermal Compound
About two years ago, I posted a tutorial on applying thermal compound to a CPU. With over a quarter-million views, it’s now my most popular video on youtube. Due to its huge success, I decided it was time to post a follow-up tutorial, with an improved application technique, and instructions[…]
Case Mod Tutorial: Add a Case Fan for Improved Airflow!
In our most recent computer tutorial, we show you how to add a case fan to your computer for improved airflow. My brother, David Blum, guest hosts this episode. As usual, it was filmed by Zach Lynn. Enjoy!