Viscous flow

Jan 25

Such predictable behavior. That’s physics.

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Steve

Oct 7

I actually just bought my first Mac (Macbook Air 13”) ever, I have been missing out for years on some great products that just feel so good to use, way beyond other products on the market. They are uniquely different. It takes something special to do make it so. Steve was that something.

Via Mint Digital.

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Racing hacked toys in KC

Jul 11

A couple weeks ago I went on a little road trip to see the Kansas City Maker Faire. It was a blast. The intention was to do a customer development for my startup which I did do a bit of, but most of the time was spent something a little different: (minorly) assisting the Sector 67 team in the Power Racing Series competition of racing modified power wheels vehicles.

More photos here.

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Startup in a day

Jun 9

Can you create a tech startup, with all the parts that involves including customer research, application development, company formation and pitch development (slidedeck below) given only 24 hours and a small team?

Yep. That’s exactly what the great team I was a member of did as part of the Startup Cafe at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference. From a kernel of a concept for an app to track what an alumni group is up to (like for an incubator program or similar) to a working application filling a real customer need (we did research with the event attendees) in such a compressed period of time was an interesting mix of high stress, little sleep while still being fun. It was only possible via the new-ish lean startup methodolgy, with the primary focus on moving fast, iterating quickly with customer involvement at the earlier possible stage.

Although initially conceived of as only a conference demonstration project due to the potential customer interest there is a chance of creating a viable business with further work.

Revenue to date: $42. (Someone passed around a hat after the demo.)

WIEC Startup Presentation

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Drones, DIY-style

May 16

Here’s a great New York Times writeup of DIY Drones, a burgeoning community of people making unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs. It’s really impressive what they’ve done in such a short period, only being started in 2007 by Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine. It’s one of the fantastic business success stories of the growing Maker movement, clearing filling a need of people to make things easily in a collaborative way. It helps that UAVs and quadcopters are so cool.

Check out the video taken at the Autonomous Vehicle Competition with Chris. An autonomous dinosaur makes an appearance.

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Tinkerer's rules

May 11

From Wondermark’s The Tinkerer’s Handbook.

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Super massive touch screen

May 5

Pretty sure don’t have room for this. The curved screen adds a lot to the immersive factor, much like IMAX screens and reality, which is pretty immersive.

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Interactive display wall

Apr 18

Walking around the new big bio research building Institutes for Discovery on the UW campus I saw this really sizable interactive display wall. It’s open to the public in the ‘Town Center.’

Float4 Interactive :: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery from Float4 Interactive on Vimeo.

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Making of a bike

Apr 13

The attention to detail, the variety of shopwork required, and the craftsmanship going into a single custom Soulcraft bike frame produce this gorgeous video.

FROM STEEL: The Making of a Soulcraft from michael evans on Vimeo.

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Earth is not a sphere

Apr 8

3D map of Earth’s gravity. It’s the (exaggerated) shape of the Earth’s surface if completely covered by water. If someone mentions that Earth is a sphere you can correct them, if it makes sense to do so. Animation here.

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