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Hosting for the socially inept
I went to two parties yesterday. This is twice my monthly allotment so I’m feeling a little oversocialized. Due to the differences in how the events went, I’d like to take this time to rant about...
View ArticleNext you take 100k children
I’m working on a project that uses I2C sensors and there is an addressing problem with them that is kind of complicated. I sent out a whole-team status report and glossed over the problem figuring the...
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Before it is too late, I should…
The electrical engineer thinks I need to design sensor boards so I can build up a dozen prototypes: part selection, schematic, layout, PCB fabrication and assembly. I should do it soon so I have...
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Embedded systems conference call for abstracts
About a year ago, I was getting ready to push the giant, red button that said GO for my Making Embedded Systems book. I thought that once I was done writing, it would be finished. Then I thought once...
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I hate connectors
I’ve hinted about my personal project… I’m still not going to be specific about it but I will say that there are six pieces connected together via cables, fairly complicated cables. I’ve been working...
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Consulting rate
People don’t like to talk about how much they make. Fair enough, I’m not going to be a trend breaker. On the other hand, engineers new to contracting often have questions about what they should charge....
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Looking around furtively
I mentioned submitting conference proposals a few posts ago. Did I mention that I’m chairing a track? Ah, yes, well, that started today. It has been the most educational twenty minutes I’ve had in the...
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Thanksgiving: some things I’m thankful for
This morning I only needed to wave my fingers like a composer to be sung awake. My husband is the best. He deserves more than this one point but I'll tell him more specifics later (in person). I'm not...
View ArticleMultiply by four and add two days
How long will it take you to complete that task? You know, that task you don’t know any details about and is just a block on the diagram that says “USB”. When, precisely, will you be finished with it?...
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Methode Champenoise
I thought today about doing a new twitter feed. To be clear, I kind of hate twitter, it is annoying to try to think of witty things to say all the time, feeling like I'm feeble at it, and listening to...
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New Year Resolution
I remember once in a shared office, two guys I worked with were complaining that they never had time to exercise. They had plans but never got to it. They commiserated with each other about exercise...
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I don’t know why she ate the fly
There is a guy crawling around my ceiling right now. On the upper side. And this is literal, not my usual metaphoric guy crawling around my head. The guy is from a Solar City, he’s looking at the roof,...
View ArticleJust saying hello
Hi! How are you? I hope things are going well. Still working on neat stuff? And the family, everybody happy and healthy? I’m doing well. It has been a little crazy since the start of the new year but...
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Stained glass: so many tentacles, so little time
A week ago, I started taking an intro to stained glass through Los Gatos recreation. As I was considering taking the class, a slumped glass artist friend (Kristin, IdleCreativity at Etsy) said she’d...
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Gravel, expired squirrels, grapes, Trident gum
Beagles don’t live in the wild and I know why. The first time we took Zoe to the vet for “gastric distress” due to “dietary indiscretions”, we felt like terrible puppy parents. We should have known....
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Tesla!
lt has been a month so I figured I’d talk about the new car, give it a review. And then this week was full of NYT and Tesla arguing like internet n00bs (proving, even if you are the NYT and CEO of a...
View ArticleA new week, a new resolution
I don’t normally do New Year’s resolutions. However, I did this year so here is my quarterly report. Oh, but I didn’t exactly do a normal resolution. Instead, my plan is to have different resolution...
View ArticleEmbedded Systems Conference, April 22-25 in SJ
The embedded systems conference is coming! Now called DesignWEST, it is at the San Jose convention center from April 22-25. The Expo is where you can see all the new dev kits and hear about the new...
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At the embedded systems conference, Star Simpson, Jen Costillo, and I did a talk called Start Tinkering. The goal was to get people interested in doing hobby projects: why we do it and how to get into...
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Passionate, articulate designers talking about sensors in health
Last Wednesday, I was on a panel at Design West (the embedded systems conference). The panel was about using sensors in health applications. It was called Sensors Saving Lives and it was in the Expo...
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