I’ve been fussing with this digital potentiometer, the DS1803 by Maxim. They’re “digital” because you can control the resistance over its range programmatically, by sending it commands over a 2-Wire (I2C/TWI) serial interface. So, that means that I can hook it up to some microcontroller, like the Arduino, and adjust…

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Legacy post from Near Future Laboratory.

Found this in Tiger, a designer-y inspired bric-a-brac shop in Copenhagen for 10DKK (about $5USD), a prescient little device that allows you to monitor your UV exposure when outside trying to have fun sailboarding and stuff. What I find curious here is the way the packaging simply avoids the unspoken hazard of this…

I’m generally not a rush-rush guy when it comes to airline travel. If find it useful to take a bit of a time buffer between deplaning and entering the real-world of transfers, taxis, trains, learning to negotiate maps, figuring out where the hotel is, sorting my head out, and to shake off the stiffness of barely hum…

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..respectfully. I’m an engineer, too, who is learning Design. But these sorts of things — not done on purpose of course — reveal the seams between purely functional and designed-with-love. This isn’t fun. It works. It gets the job done. But it’s robotron to the point of disrespectfully, especially nowadays. I could…

Another human peculiar but pervasive human social practice. The introductory manual would be this “Poodles for Dummies” book. I would also recommend these two slightly more advanced instruction books, “When Species Meet” and “The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness” both by my old Ph…

So, just a brief overview here of the Logicport Logic Analyzer and it’s top-line features and set-up. When I set out to figure this thing out, I took a decent “known” set-up that was running a not terribly complicated, but still useful protocol — SPI. As it happens, the Playstation 2 communication between its contro…