Anne Balsamo gave a talk today at the Annenberg Center for Communication on the topic of her forthcoming book: TechnoHumanism: The Study of the Cultural Relationship between the Human and Technological

Fan Art in Google Earth (click for the super high-res, high megabyte version)

For his Ph.D. work, Jean-Baptiste Labrune has captured some cool line-ups of a trio of tinkerers microcontrollers for young and old.

Title An API for Durable Affinity: Engineering Interfaces That Matter

Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy by Jonathan Chapman

I picked up a nice electric skillet from Target to do some surface-mount technology work. It was on sale — $19 after the mark down! The suggestion for using an electric skillet for a low-cost, perfectly serviceable SMT reflow rig came from the Spark Fun folks.

So, I’m at the point with the Flavonoid project that I need to start getting printed circuit boards made. (The printed circuit board includes an accelerometer, a real-time clock, touch sensor, and a bit of EEPROM memory, if you want to know.) A fair bit of the break was spent schooling up on Eagle, doing layouts, ma…

I’ve been waiting for someone else to do this. I got one over a month ago, but haven’t taken the time to hammer it open. I’m glad more adept reverse engineer types went ahead and did it.

103, .01uF, light contact trigger