Just finished documenting the latest example project. The Light Switch XBee is a wireless wall switch that can control lamps, fans, motors or your homemade robot using Digi’s XBee radio. It’s a model for almost any digital input device you’d like to build. If it goes on and off, you can make it wireless using […]
Light Switch XBee: Example Project Read Post »
This Horsie Race project, developed for my recent workshops in Colorado, creates a carnival midway-style horse race using a wireless audio input with Arduino and XBee that transmits each player’s yells and cheers to a base station radio. This base station is connected to a computer where the noise advances their horse on the screen using the Processing graphical programming environment.
I just started a terrific new job! In July, Digi International invited me to join their R&D team as Collaborative Strategy Leader. My mandate is to forge stronger connections with the maker community, discover outstanding new work, help Digi contribute to those projects and support innovation in general. Some of my cool new role will
Collaborative Strategy at Digi International Read Post »
Just launched a new talk called “Liking the Guests” at Sketching in Hardware 2011 at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. “Liking the Guests” tells the story of how holding your users in high esteem creates an unexpected and fundamental principle for good design. The talk has pirates, princesses, apes, and taxidermy, but essentially it’s about why I
Liking The Guests – at Sketching in Hardware Read Post »
