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Facebook is Making Us Dumb

Lolz, here iz a pic of my cat sleeping. A sad consequence of the ad supported internet is that websites have an incentive to waste your time. Facebook has mastered time wastage, and, in pursuit of a top spot in the social network race, Google may one day figure out how to kill hours of read more »

CocoaMojo Prototype Mark II

CocoaMojo Mark I made a giant mess in the kitchen, leaving a layer of bean shell on the floor and all nearby surfaces. After discussions with a colleague who used to work in industrial automation, we decided a winnower based on blowing air would always make a mess. The best solution was to go from read more »

Cocoa Bean Winnower Prototype Mark I

Mike Winnike, founder of Happy Goat Caramels in San Francisco (look for it at Draegers and other fancy food stores), was looking to expand into goat milk caramel chocolate and in need of an apparatus to separate cocoa nibs from cocoa shell after the beans are roasted and cracked. So he came to me. Briefly, read more »

Bending Acrylic

Really, it ain’t that hard.

Android Open Accessory Development Kit

Official support for controlling hardware via Android handsets is here. I’m not impressed.

Smart Meter Hacking

I’ve been trying to see if there is a way to read energy usage information from the smart meter PG&E installed at my home.

PHP REST Web Services

I’ve created plenty of REST web services in Java, but never any in PHP.

Oh No This Embedded PDF Won’t Load!

Embedded PDF causing troubles? There is a solution for Chrome and Firefox users.

The State of Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality: Headsets that show a Robocop view of the world? Not quite.

PhoneGap Review

If an open source project is not documented, why bother writing it at all?