The next quarter I’ll be covering 4 P’s, these are Processing, Pi, Phones, and Presentation. Processing is an application that will do some interesting tasks. The development platform is similar to Arduino and was first demonstrated to me from Jeremy Blum’s tutorial blog. I’ve seen it used in other uses and find it useful to know for future projects. Pi is a reference to the Raspberry Pi platform. This extremely small and powerful computer is being used in ways I…
The subject mater covered this quarter was done in a strange and different way than I had traditionally. The daily blog entries and micro projects didn’t give me the same sense of purpose that term papers had in the past. The scattered nature of the material made me aware that the blog entries were key in gathering it together. It was by this that my sense of purpose and accomplishment became clear. Unlike the term papers, the blog still has…
This last post for the quarter started out with me looking for someone that put it all together. Turns out I found this instead and it got my attention. Measuring Pollution and Health – Wearable Project Wins Prize. It was dated July 11th, 2013. What was the prize? A sum of $15,000. Here’s one of the winners with a project demo. I’ve seen some impressive work done by folks and to think this sort of work doesn’t have rewards is…