Sub Ubi

free interaction design for your open source project

During the summer of 2009, I had the good fortune of taking part in the Red Hat POSSE programme, meeting a bunch of excellent open source peeps, and getting a sense for how I might introduce more of my students to the world of open source contribution. This last spring, my colleague and I introduced 40 . . . → Read More: free interaction design for your open source project

OSCON is good

I’ll have to write a longer post later, but I thought I’d just mention that OSCON is a great conference. Our presentation went well, and we’ve had a lot of great conversations with people about all kinds of things in the open source world.

More later… for now, it’s time to head out the door.

(Related, our parallel . . . → Read More: OSCON is good

dinosaurs and uavs

This past week, Radu and Drew worked through the details of setting up PWM-based servo control on the Arduino. This gives us robust control over servos from our occam-pi based programming environment without having to interrupt our execution every 20ms to update a servo.

Here, the Science Dinosaur demonstrates how things work.

Radu and Drew’s work is . . . → Read More: dinosaurs and uavs

boardbook hospital

Last night we had an episode of “Boardbook Hospital.” Honestly, I couldn’t come up with anything funny to say while working on a number of Matthew’s books. (I came up with a number of things that bombed, but really, book-repair is pretty spineless!)

We did have fun remembering the Muppet Show, . . . → Read More: boardbook hospital

xmos / xc

I work on a software project that helps make an interesting, parallel language with a long history run on lots of tiny computers. More details can be found online.

Specifically, we run code that used to run on a processor called the Transputer. It was developed by a company called INMOS. Today, there is a company called . . . → Read More: xmos / xc

release early, release often

Last summer, I had the good fortune of taking part in Red Hat’s 2009 POSSE. It was an absolutely excellent experience, and many of the things we did and talked about have required much reflection and continued conversation for the ideas to take root. It also took some hutzpah: along with a colleague (and super-ninja support . . . → Read More: release early, release often

hosts, backup

I’ve taken the plunge, and am giving a new hosting provider a try. Things will be moving over the summer.

This is a big jump; I’ve been hosting my own shiznit for years now. That said, I can do most of what I need with a shared hosting provider… so I’ll see if I can get by.

I . . . → Read More: hosts, backup

open your world

I’m a bit behind on a number of posts (as well as a few things in the Real World). I still need to post a few more pictures from the westward travel, for example. I came back and have been moving fast ever since getting students bootstrapped on summer research. I’ll have to point to their . . . → Read More: open your world

glowing in the dark

This has been quite the drive. When we last left off, we were somewhere in Chicago, I think. Or somewhere West of Chicago. It doesn’t matter… we were somewhere on I90. It was a lot like I90 everywhere east of Chicago.

After Chicago, we drove across South Dakota. We saw sheep chutes.

After we saw sheep . . . → Read More: glowing in the dark

roadtrips

Last week and this are all about road trips.

Last week, Carrie, Matthew, and I made our way out to Syracuse, Boston, NJ, DC, and home.

We started by attending Olin’s graduation, where we saw the Olin family from 2010 graduate:

Matthew made lots of friends, and is now well aquainted with the . . . → Read More: roadtrips