I’ve been interested in optimizing how we source, cook, and store food for many years. I started exploring ways to connect loyalty cards across grocery stores, which obviously met stalling resistance from grocery chains...
Building off of the teddy bear and xmas light projects, I added the LED panel and switch to our xmas tree! This way, friends would be able to leave us a holiday message we could...
Given we still live far away from our family and many of our closest friends, I continue to focus on creating ways to help us feel a little more connected. As my daughter turned...
I’ve always been frustrated by the painful workflow required to keep loved ones up-to-date with our photos. We have a DSLR and take a ton of pictures, but generally take 6 months to 1...
As Apple decided to once again change the connector, I was faced with a decision – buy another ugly dock or build one myself. Given that I had pine lying around, I decided to...
Following last year’s post on being able to turn lights on/off, I decided to re-use it for this year’s holiday card. Users were invited to watch a live stream of our xmas tree and...
For some unexplained reason, I decided to build a dining table. After obsessing over different types of brazilian wood – beautiful woods such as jacaranda, cedro, and mogno – I ended up reasoning that...
Unfortunately, Arduino’s Ethernet shield does not play very nice with other devices that want to use its select pins. After many searches, I came across jcw’s discussion board and Martin’s implementation doc. Because the...
My brother has been hacking Kinects to see how accurately it can track people and recognize object. I thought I’d try using a normal (non IR, 3D) camera to see what results I could...
This is my first 3D printed internet of things (thanks to Matthew Epler for printing it!). It reads from BuddyMedia’s conversionBuddy internal api and displays lifetime shares and daily $Rev/share. The cube also makes...
