By the end of today, I'm placing an order from Sparkfun. Ideally, I'd like to do some form of very-quick shipping, which is pretty expensive: $20 for USPS Express, $28 for FedEx Standard Overnight, or $16 for FedEx 2-day Air on a $10 part. Are any of you lovely people in Pittsburgh in need of anything from Sparkfun (Arduinos large and small, GPS ( Read more... )

Hey everybody [who is in Pittsburgh and is not participating in ICFP stuff], I have a gallery opening tomorrow. The exhibit is called Mashings, and it contains CMU undergrad robotic art, as curated by Ian Ingram. I will be displaying the cyborg eye piece and the Carnival button panel. They are even more fun in person than in photographs, I ( Read more... )

Hey everybody!

Come see our Frame show:

Instamatique

( My poetic discovery of the day. )

I need some glowsticks (about 20 of them, preferably of the about 4-6" long, 0.25-0.5" diameter variety, in whatever color, though multiple colors would be cool) for a project (neo-Haeckel) that I basically need to do over the weekend. If you have such a thing, I would love to buy them off of you. Alternatively, do you know where I can find some, ( Read more... )

Want. Alternatively, want access to a mathematician and a Z-printer.

I drafted a seven piece corset pattern for myself. I'm pretty happy with it, but it's hard to tell what the final fit of a corset will be like until it's more or less finished, so we'll see. The plan is that I make a corset, or possibly two, out of denim. Denim is way more durable and washable than the velvet, brocade, and satins that my other ( Read more... )

People in Pittsburgh:
Mostly because I'm jealous of all the fine folks that brought us "Pittsburgh Roars," I would like to go to this "idea round up". Would anybody be interested in coming with me?

People not in Pittsburgh:
Confused when I mention the CMU KGB? Maybe this will clear things up.

Last night, as I was trying to fall asleep, I wondered what it would be like to play a sort of Trivial Checkers. Arrange people on a grid as game pieces. Each turn, a trivia question is asked, and only people who could answer the question can move, with all the other rules being the same as checkers (or chess, I guess). There could also be a ( Read more... )

Today I woke up at an atrociously early hour to volunteer my time for scorekeeping for the Pittsburgh Regional of the 15th Annual FIRST Robotics Competition. I will do the same tomorrow.

It was all sorts of good. I obtained and will continue to obtain not only several freebies, including a T-shirt, four meals, and divers team merch, but more ( Read more... )