For one of my educational project, a small electronic jewelry-like device meant to teach kids how to program through an artistic platform, we needed a way to present programs as stories that are pleasant to read. The Literate Programming style fulfills these requirements perfectly. Moreover, literate programming is a very …

My favorite way to teach a subject is to present the math or physics under study as the tool empowering you to do magic (the Arthur Clarke type of magic). Moreover, when teaching, the best type of magic is the flashy beautiful whimsical magic. This has led to the creation …

In the neighboring lab a group of friends (Siam and Bridget) are working on genetically engineering microorganisms to produce fuel or other useful organics. A lot of their research revolves around rapidly growing various strains of bacteria under a multitude of conditions to study various gene expressions.

For a lot …

This is my simple and rather amateurish heated bracelet built around an attiny.

First of all, I used a simple resistive heater “e-textile” as a heat source. It is driven by a PWM signal that switches a transistor.

The heater is close to the skin, then on top of it …

With an Arduino, an MP3 shield, and a real-time clock one can make a cute alarm clock. I wanted to go one step further and add a pretty almost-graphical interface with an old Nokia LCD screen (that part was especially fun as it led to writing a simplistic interface event …