Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, I introduced this project: I’m building a light show for my office in order to attract people to my office and to offer a creative, motivating outlet for people to learn to code. I spent most of the first post describing the calculations and components necessary to power 900 […]
Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 1 I’m moving into a brand new office in a couple of weeks. I work at a university and mostly teach programming and web development. I was brainstorming about ways to make my office a place where I and others would really enjoy hanging out. I typically use my office almost exclusively as a place for […]
Should I go to Japan to see the cherry blossoms? Yesterday, I got a message from a good friend who asks: Hi! So we found $500 flights to Japan during cherry blossom season. We’ve lived in DC and SF, which both have amazing cherry blossoms. Do you think it’s worth whatever other premiums I imagine we’d be paying to visit during that time period? As […]
