Entrepreneur, author, analyst. A visual programming platform for mapping functionality to open-source hardware, like Arduino. Developers write ‘code blocks’ that accomplish certain tasks. These are either free or purchased through the market. Users only see the abstracted code, like legos, or Tetris. Total ease of use. Users stack a few of these blocks to solve a specific problem [...]
From the Wireframes blog. Sketchify is an open source toolkit for simulating simple drawings with a wide range of inputs in real time. As an example, it allows you to quickly create a functional prototype of a moving car along with the mouse acting as a controller for its direction. Other inputs which Sketchify may [...]
The inability to lay out the multiple pages of one document as you would on a desk. The current generation of word processors, quite frankly, sucks at enabling this. Why? Because when storage was scarce, deleting useless stuff was an important function. (Particularly when the storage medium was paper, where deleting was a real pain [...]
When I was in Germany last summer, Caelan (my smarter, better looking half) arranged a tour of a small engineering firm that built high performance PCB’s for Porsche’s racing class vehicles. It was a great experience. This small team designed, built, and shipped these complex boards, in a single office of a couple thousand square [...]
Fantastic free application if you need to control multiple Mac’s with one keyboard/mouse. (For example, if you don’t want to have a keyboard attached to your home theater brain.) Sign up for my newsletter.