Allen Salkin of The New York Times wrote a great piece about the new Nerd Culture in this weeks Sunday paper. Great read and an audio slide show to go with it, narrated by our very own Nick Bilton (that’s me). Photo below of Bre Pettis, Phil Torrone and Limor at the Ignite NYC Soldering contest.
Query: what the hell is this thing I’ve been lugging around for the past three years?
It’s some sort of StrongARM development system. I think it may be related to the Intel “Brutus” eval boards, but I’m not certain. The daughterboard is labelled “SA1110 daughter card”; there’s nothing useful on the larger board. There’s a fairly anonymous StrongARM chip in the ZIF socket. It feels like some sort of demo unit, given how it’s all gussied up and under acrylic.
What’s on the big board?
Intel sold off all its StrongARM/PXA properties years ago, and scrubbed pretty much anything useful from its website. Archive.org hasn’t been too helpful. Anyone have any leads?
A couple of weeks ago Bre posted about digital pinhole photography, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Last night I spent about 30 minutes playing around at NYCR, following Bre’s instructions, and here’s the first image I was happy with:
Today I spent an hour or so in the garden fooling around, and I’m already thrilled.
There are tons of resources all over the web (just for starters, here’s a Digital Pinhole Photography discussion group on Flickr), but I encourage you to make a lens and start shooting before you read a lot — it’s easy to get started, and you don’t want to waste valuable daylight shooting hours inside on the web.
Thanks, Bre!
We came, we saw, we definitely didn’t conquer. The picture above shows Tom Igoe (who won 3rd place! congrats!) triumphantly turning off the tellyvision with his finished device. I have to say, an award should have gone to Matt Joyce for looking the coolest with his bad-ass bandanna, and an award to me for the most amount of trash talking! Check out the great video below of the event.
Great, great job Bre Pettis and Brady Forrest for putting on an amazing show last night at Ignite! And congratulations to the winners (AND losers!).
photo by luis.net – video by ieee.
It’s contagious. Matt’s Fail jacket. Picture and make-up by Bre Pettis.
Ok, well, erm, sorry for all the Fail Whale’s yesterday… We had a little too much fun at NYCR last night.
Moving back to the world of blinking LED’s and robots… isn’t this little guy, cute? He, I mean, it, was developed by the University of the West of England and are called Emotibots. They are currently on display at London’s Science Museum. The scary, yet sad, looking robot above and below is called the Heart Bot. If you hug it, it will relax and hug you back and it’s pulse changes. If you grab it and shake, or yell, Heart Bot gets scared and sad, just like my cat! More on these little cute robots… here.
Floating Fail Whale by Nick Bilton
To the continueing fail whale saga. I contribute this. The Yes Video.
