When to Lie
Question #1
Your grandma has Alzheimer’s disease. This morning she woke up and could not find her husband. He died 5 years ago. If you tell her, she will be sad and upset… at least until she wakes up again tomorrow. Should you lie?
trumpWap – Make the web great again
Remember when almost every image on the internet was trump?
With trumpWAP, we can make the web great again. This is huge.
Plug in the trumpWap and on day-1 you’ll get between 20% and 90% more trump (depending on your browsing habits). It’s that simple.
Continue reading for more examples of trumped up websites & apps, a perfunctory video demonstration, and info on getting your own trumpWAP!
Bigger is better: Build an Arduino-powered monster scrolling LED sign for about $15 a foot
Would you do with a massive full color animated LED display? How about…
- Read your Tweets in giant 140 char gulps from a block away
- Add English sub-titles to the Eiffel Tower
- Display a live-updating, 45 digit long countdown of the number of atoms left in the known universe
What if you could build the display however long you needed it, for only about $15/foot?
What if it was really easy to build and used everyone’s favorite low cost micro-controller so you could easily change the software to do whatever you wanted?
Well you can! Read on for details and perfunctory video!
Marketizing Citibike… comes true!
Remember Marketizing Citibike from 3 years back? Well, starting today it is real!
Points rather than dollars, but still a huge bold step!
Parallel Processing Arduino Style – Make Massive NeoPixel Displays With Nanoscale Concurrent Computing
We’ve already seen that it is possible to drive thousands of WS2812B NeoPixels with a lowly Arduino using careful bit-banging. But what if we could bang out 8 bits at a time rather than sending them single file? Could it be possible to drive 8 times as many strings (or get 8 times the refresh rate) from our Arduino by processing bits in parallel? It would be like having a tiny pipelined GPU render engine inside our Arduino!
Read on to find out the results of a quick proof-of-concept test!….
Looking at the $1 million dollar coin as a an investment bundle
The Royal Canadian Mint makes a $1 million dollar coin. It weighs 100kg and is 99.999% pure gold. Is there any way this massive novelty coin could possibly end up being a viable investment? Maybe!…
What is the best way to mount LED strips on polycarbonate panels?
Polycarbonate panels are cheap, strong, light, durable, and easy to buy. They are perfect for constructing large scale LED strip installations. But what is the best way to secure your LED strips to the panels? I’ve done a lot of testing to find out, and the most reliable method turns out to also be one of the cheapest and easiest…
