Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'hardware'
When atoms meet bits (LIFT 09 talk summary)
I'm going to be speaking at LIFT France 09 later this week. The talk is an intro to presentations by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino of tinker.it and Michael Shiloh. I'll post the actual talk when it's done. Here's the summary: According to...
How to make a DEC5100 work with Win2K
This has nothing to do with ubicomp, but I just spent 3 hours figuring this out and thought I would share. I have an ancient Declaser 5100, a laser printer that was made in 1993 and has run continuously ever...
Why we need a good appliance communication protocol
I was recently reading Fred Wilson's thoughts on user generated devices: Yes, the web has brought this power of the user to the forefront of our society, enough to make us the person of the year. That's cool. But...
The Magic Smoke in Electronics
While writing the last entry, I remembered a tongue-in-cheek myth from electrical engineering, documented in Wikipedia, which says that there is a little bit of magic blue smoke in every integrated circuit, resistor, transistor, and all other electronic components and...
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