I’ve learned some valuable lessons today. Always save your work. This is a lesson I had always known, but today I will amend it with some secondary lessons: A sketch in Arduino is a temporary file and is not saved, no matter how many times you hit CMD+S. If you...

When I hear the name “Tom Petty”, the first thing I think of is an old standup routine about Google that my old roommates used to repeat. Only after thinking about the routine do I remember “Free Falling” or “American Girl” or the Travelling Wilburys. Consequentially, both the Tom Petty...

I had a bit of trouble deciding on what piece of interactive technology to observe for this blog post. We had to pick one used by the public, but try not to be seen observing them. Pick one that you can wait around near without being conspicuous. Pick one that...

For visual language, I had to pick six typefaces to represent me. Here are my picks, along with a short explanation of why I chose them. And here are all the picks together. I also had to make some “expressive” words. I decided that I wanted my set of three...

Hiroshima, Mon Amour was a 1959 French film directed by Alain Resnais. It’s one of my favourite films, and highly influential in world cinema: it influenced the later French New Wave with its nonlinear storyline and its innovative use of flashbacks. Moreover, it’s just a lovely film about the shortcomings...

I think most people in PComp this week was confused as to what we were supposed to document. There are a few labs assigned, but some of those are just looking at your electronic components. Do we respond to the readings? Tom Igoe’s class, apparently, has to do this. I...

On Saturday, I went on a fan pilgrimage with Patrick Presto– we took a trip to the Paley Center to visit their new exhibition, “Transported: Paley Center Salutes 50 Years of Star Trek”. Although I have many friends who are Trekkies, I’ve never been one for the series myself. I’ve...

Comic books, for the most part, are not interactive mediums. Usually, reading them is just a series of one-sided actions and reactions: you read a comic book, and you respond emotionally to its static contents. The comic remains unmoved by your actions; it never responds to anything in your circumstance....