I’ve never thought much for Bitcoin, and consequentially blockchain technologies. Anecdotally, I knew it as the currency of libertarians and drug dealers; I only knew people who used it because they needed something illegal or used our university’s power and servers to mine it. Consequentially, it was kind of interesting...

For my midterm project for Subtraction, I wanted to construct the case for a desktop vending machine for the battery store that I run with Lindsey Daniels. I’ve seen pictures of this done before, but the creator doesn’t release his plans since he sells the parts on his website. Why...

For a technologist, I’m awfully skeptical about technology, particularly when it’s from Silicon Valley. Every breathless press release I read about a startup just makes me wonder, “what’s the catch?” Consequently, I went into this week’s readings with doubt in my head, especially when the social good of a technology...

I had a lot less trouble with this week’s Subtraction exercise than last week’s. The primary trouble I had was with scheduling and other people– I waited three hours to see if someone would vacate the MasterCAM station on Friday, and found it constantly occupied. Consequently, my project isn’t quite...

I’ve been thinking a lot about fate for my story of Cassandra. We’re meant to change critical actions in the story to see how they effect the narrative, but the idea of Cassandra is so tied up with the idea of ‘fate’ that it can be hard to find an...

For this week of Everything is Spatial, we used some geolocation data we generated over the last two weeks with the Moves application, and visualized the paths we took as well as the locations we visited. This is the base map of my last two weeks– all roads lead back...

Last week for Doing Good is Good Business, we did a design workshop to practice solving problems– we paired up to solve each other’s problems with communicating with distant loved ones. I paired with Dorothy, who had trouble reaching a friend of hers in Dubai. I had a bit of...