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…

Thursday Hutch and I did the rounds at various local outlets for Physical Computing/Hardware Hacking resources.  LA is SPOILED, I tell you. Coming from NYC, the idea that you can…

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…