Category: technoPHILE
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AI Series: Level 1 – The Large Language Model (LLM)
First, lets start in the year 2000. (recalling Conan O’Brien’s “In the year 2000” falsetto sung preludes). Not “a look into the future” since its now 2025, but we’re at my senior year in university where I’ve built my first neural network (don’t worry if you don’t know what that is yet). As early as…
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3-D Printing: Thought to Thing at Lightspeed
Affordable and accessible 3-D printing is a revolutionary tech. Very high level description of 3-D printing concepts, steps, and what it’s all about.
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JUNKies: Beer Fridge Build
Steve, Jay, Josh, Graham, and Ryan do pre-build work for a shooting JUNKies (The Science Channel) for episode: Hovercrash.
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WUSA9: Super NOVA Writeup on HALO Project
I was recently written up in WSA9’s weekly highlight for a local person who has an interesting hobby, has made a business impact, is a philanthropist, …..or who can provide any content for them to meet a deadline. My thanks to Ryan Rusnak for nominating me as a Super NOVA, and Ellen Scott for interviewing…
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Collaboration: An Art and a Science
Documentation of collaborative work between Steve Struebing (www.polymythic.com) and Jeremy Stern (www.jeremysternart.com) for Jeremy’s Master of Fine Arts thesis “Following”.
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Humana Health by Design Challenge – HALO Project Results
The results were published, and I am honored to have won the Assistive Tech Grand Prize. I would like to thank everyone for voting at www.instructables.com. I would like to say a big thank you to Humana for hosting the competition, and congratulations to everyone else who entered. There were some spectacular entries, especially in…
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HALO – Haptic Feedback System for Blind/Visually Impaired
Complete Build Instructions: Please visit www.instructables.com for the complete build instructions and story. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXs5rhwCfE Highlights/Features – Approximate 4 feet of range – Variable haptic sensation (frequency and intensity of vibrations increase as range decreases) – Just over 180 degree field of view from 5 Parallax Ping))) Ultrasonic Rangefinders Background I have recently been introduced to some new…
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Motion Feedback MP3 Trigger
I posted over at Instructables a project that uses the Parallax PIR Motion Sensor (yes, it IS that same I used in the Halloween Hack, ye of the clan Observant) to encourage me to be working out. If I am, then I am rewarded with some tunes to keep moving along. However, if I am…
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Half Hour Halloween Hack
Halloween came out of nowhere this year for me. I have not had the time to do much of anything having just moved into a new house, so I took it upon myself to quickly whip up something to get into the Halloween mood. I was at a local store and saw these little foam…
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Solar-Powered Temperature Sensor
DIY Project on using XBee and solar panel to have an Arduino report wirelessly the temperature outside to an XBee receiver. The receiver is hooked up to an ioBridge so the data is web-accessible.