Cross-posted with a few additions from my personal Medium page. Tl;dr: I put a Raspberry Pi inside a karaoke machine and am managing it with Resin.io, a Docker-based Internet-of-Things orchestration…

Steve has The Boring Company’s Not-A-Flamethrower

Steve and I made a really fun fountain controlled by a bike pump for Maker Faire 2017. It was a huge hit with attendees. Unfortunately, sharing it on social media was a…

Lots of bad advice is getting floated around about border crossings, including creating weird partitions or fake lightweight logins. Sadly, as this 2011 EFF guide shows, border control overreach isn’t a…

Patent Prosecution, Process and Pitfalls Eventually, every inventor is confronted with the decision to protect his technology by ways of a utility patent. Understanding the magnitude of the undertaking as…

Upcoming Intellectual Property Event On October 4, 2018* John Cabeca Director of the Silicon Valley United States Patent and Trademark Office is coming to present at CRASH Space As the…

Your weekly reminder to back up your data, update software and otherwise pay attention to your digital environment. (Oh, and to head to the CRASH Space meeting…) On the blog…