The Inverse of Compassion
To further yesterday's thought, someone at the office mentions that he read in a Buddhist book the opposite of Compassion is Vexation. Looks like a bit of serendipity is in action here.
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Experiments in Physical Computing
Designing for Compassion, Empathy
Momentum Magazine has an interesting article by John Pucher in their Jan/Feb 2009 issue. Its worth a read by drivers of vehicles and cyclists alike. It led to an interesting lunchtime discussion, and some really interesting ideas pertaining to designing for compassion and empathy. In short, Pucher argues that by ...
Balloon Powered Boat
Toy Boat
Originally uploaded by Eightlines
By no means original, this was a really simple design I had to build. The hull is cut with a bandsaw at 15 degrees, 1/2" dowel with a 3/16" hole in the middle. Glued and bisected by another 3/16" hole out the stern. A balloon is ...
Augmented Reality
Recently Saqoosha's port of ARToolkit from C to Flash has taken the Flash world by storm. The biggest hurdle for me was that the comments in the source were all in Japanese. That was until Mikko Haapoja published a getting started in FLARToolkit entry. Now we're witnessing an onslaught of ...
Three20 TTTableViewController commitEditingStyle
This post is mostly for my future reference. I found the documentation of the TTTableViewController's commitEditingStyle to be lacking. Some of the comments on StackOverflow provide the right answer, but the code wasn't posted so I struggled for a bit. Below is an example of the version I managed to ...
TGIMBOEJ
The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk (TGIMBOEJ) is a box. It's a box that arrives on your doorstep after you drop your name on a wiki page and wait a good deal of time. It's a box that has electronics junk inside and it works off the premise ...
Power Monitor Packet
As Hugo helpfully commented in a previous post, here is the link to the Power Monitor Patent. The specific page I'm linking to is the Packet model. Lots of reading to do here, but its pretty interesting.
One of the things I find most interesting about this patent is the citations ...
Building a Scooter Bike for Kids
Ages ago I bookmarked a design posted on Make for a Scooter Bike, as I intended on building one when my daughter got old enough. On a recent trip to the surplus store I picked up a wheelset for $3 and figured what better time to start than now. I ...
Arduino Packet Analyzer
Following the previous success where we managed to see the transmissions from the Black & Decker Power Monitor, Andrew Kilpatrick and I went about trying to capture the packets. Without an access to an oscilloscope with packet capture capabilities we built our own with an Arduino.
Essentially, the code waits for ...
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