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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…
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Crazy Light Patters Using an LED and a Mini Booze Bottle
I’d say I’m well on my way to creating my own Eye of Sauron I had a burning desire to create some sort of electronics project with mini alcohol bottles (the ones you find in hotel rooms). My first instinct was to make them light up using LEDs. Since most are clear glass, light simply…
