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Initial Thoughts on the Intel Edison
To be perfectly honest, when I made this video, I had not even powered up an Edison. I feel weird promoting something that I have not played with, but that’s the way business goes sometimes, I suppose. A week later, I was able to get my hands on a working Edison unit. Flying home from Maker…
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Programming in Schools?
The New York Times recently published an article showing how a few big cities (e.g. New York, Chicago) are trying out Code.org‘s “Hour of Code.” According to the article, nine States have begun awarding computer science credit in the same manner as science and math. It’s about time.
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My Time at the USA Science and Engineering Festival (USASEF 2014)
(Image courtesy of SparkFun Electronics) This past weekend, my fellow coworkers and I attended the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. More than just attended, we had a booth to teach kids (and adults) how to solder. People would wait in line, get a free kit (Yes, free. They got to take…
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Classroom Project: DIY Stirling Engine
Stirling engine example (“Ericsson style hot air engine” by Rob Skinner on wikipedia.org) This past week, we had the president of Cool Energy, Sam Weaver, speak to us at work about his commercial Stirling engines. I had known about Stirling engines for a while but was unsure on their specific operation. Sam gave a great…
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Getting Started With NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu 10.04
DISCLAIMER: This is a post from my old blog that I copied here to help out anyone interested in installing CUDA on Ubuntu. Please keep in mind that it was written a few years ago with Ubuntu 10.04 and the CUDA toolkit 3.2.16. Obviously some things have changed, but it should at least provide a…
