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  • Alexa, write a post on my blog

    Alexa, write a post on my blog

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    Today is Christmas, It was a wonderful day of exchanging gifts with my wife, playing with new toys, enjoying each other’s company, and basically laying about. One of the gifts Hykel got me this year is an Amazon Echo.

  • Roomba-ing with a Raspberry Pi

    Roomba-ing with a Raspberry Pi

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    We’ve owned a Roomba for years. I wanted one for a few years before that and the thing that has been most attractive about it to me has been the ability to hack it. When I say hack, I mean “repurpose to my own whim”

  • MakerFaire Project (2015) – Part 1

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    This started out as a “Project of the Week” post, but As it started to take form, and started to stretch beyond a week, I decided I wanted to make a more dedicated post about the developement process. MakerFaire never takes me by surprise, but I always do end up working on it until that…

  • Project of the Week: Mini robot

    Project of the Week: Mini robot

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    I got my new 3D printer up and running recently. After some tuning, some improving, and some printing of backup parts (an ongoing process, I decided I was confident to move forward.

  • The 2013 Portland Mini MakerFaire

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    Last year (you may have read), I participated in the Portland Mini MakerFaire. It was great. I absolutely loved sharing and teaching people. This year, I definitely wanted to participate again. In my typical fashion, I put it all off until the night before…

  • 10 minutes with Cory Doctorow

    10 minutes with Cory Doctorow

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    This past Wednesday, I had the opportunity to go see Cory Doctorow (arguably my favorite author) on the local stop of his tour for his new book Homeland. He had been generous enough to give some local makergroups/hackerspaces a chance to say hello and drum up membership. I volunteered to talk about DorkbotPDX and found myself…

  • It’s a Trap!

    It’s a Trap!

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    For the past few years, my brother and I have been pranking each other a bit when it comes to gifts. It took on a rather peculiar theme a couple of years ago when my brother gave me a copy of Starcraft II. He had cleverly hidden it in a Warcraft III box and when I opened it.…

  • My Perfect Phone

    My Perfect Phone

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    I got my first cell phone in 2005. It was a Nokia candybar identified by some 4 digit number. At the time I carried it along with a Handspring Edge Palm handheld and an iPod color (remember those?) It felt like the best I could get at the time. As a Mac user, there wasn’t…

  • Me at the Portland MakerFaire

    Me at the Portland MakerFaire

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    This past Saturday (Sept 15) I got to participate in Portland’s first annual MakerFaire. I’ve written about MakerFaires before, but this is the first one where I was showing off a project.  Note: I do plan on sharing the details of my Kinect-driven Roomba in a future post. This post is more about my experience…

  • My Mac is not giving up yet.

    My Mac is not giving up yet.

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    About a week ago, I had a horrible thing happen. My Mac gave up the ghost. Well, sort of anyway. It didn’t really die, but it seemed like it had. I was buzzing along happily when all of the sudden the video went wonky (that’s a technical term) and then everything froze up. It wouldn’t…