Category Archives: personal
Another garden update
Pepper closeup Originally uploaded by AKA MEDIA SYSTEM After a rocky patch, the garden is doing better. This, however, is the only result of the entire operation so far. A ~200$ pepper, photograph much enlarged. The current problem (which I … Continue reading
Garden takes a turn
The garden is not doing well. The pH of the nutrient solution is almost always far too acidic (no matter what steps I take to adjust it), and if one plant isn’t suffering, then another is. I appear to have … Continue reading
First seedlings started
I enjoy hobbies, and this one seems fun—I can combine my interest in resiliency, my love of cooking, and my pleasure in experimenting with code and hardware. I set up the garden kit this evening and transplanted three seedlings: rosemary, … Continue reading
Protected: Thesis done, unfortunately
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3d printer finished
More details soon.
3-d printer nearing completion
Andrew2.0 and I have been working on building our own RepStrap for the last three or four weekends, and last night we had a very successful first run (without the extruder installed). Above, you can see a video of it … Continue reading
New Year
Get ready for a characteristically uneven spate of updates. First and most important, I convinced Harlo to get engaged! It was on New Year’s Eve. The original plan was to meet at the Bravest, a bar where we used to … Continue reading
Steak Filter v0
While I was working on House In Bali in Berkeley, I had the thought that it would be a good idea to run some video signal through a steak. It was mostly the drawing I had made of the signal … Continue reading
Field Performance – Four Loops
20090930 Four Loops by akamediasystem I walked four times around the same place. Four loops. I was wearing binaural microphones. Even at the same place, the sound is never the same. But it is often familiar. I geologged as I … Continue reading
Happening/happened
Very briefly, I will make a list of important promises to you: I will tell you all about the trip to Ars Electronica, including: meeting people (Roman Stigner, Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska, Hayes Raffle, Ayah Bdeir, Julius von Bismarck), … Continue reading
