Today is a good day. I bought three books and discovered another. I started reading Linchpin by Seth Godin, but quit because I was getting frustrated. Not because I didn’t like the book, but because I’d borrowed it from the library. Getting books from the library is a good way to save money, but I [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
Wireless Power Transmission, Part III [Project]
Today’s going to be a great day. We’re making progress on the project. Our plan: Print prior art and put in a binder Review prior art Decide on prototype Buy materials for prototype Build prototype Smoke test prototype Experiment with prototype Print prior art and put in a binder We printed all the material we [...]
Wireless Power Transmission, Part II [Project]
Jamison and I are continuing with phase II of his Wireless Power Transmission project: Research how others have solved the problem. Instructables continues to be a great resource. At least, we hope so. We haven’t tried building anything quite yet. That will change soon. Here’s a few more links: Instructables: Low Power Wireless Charging Instructables: [...]
Wireless Power Transmission, Part I [Project]
Jamison and I are starting an engineering project for his school’s science and engineering fair. This is the second year his school’s fair accepts engineering projects. Instead of doing a science experiment using the scientific method, we get to engineer: Identify a problem Research how others have solved it Develop our own solution, and Refine our [...]
On Success
“Most of the things we try fail.” —Jonathan Perlow, software engineer on the Gmail front end Yet, without trying, there can be no success. ___ Hat tip: Louis Gray. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lintmachine/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
The Universe is Hella Big, Almost…
There is a petition on Facebook to define the number prefix for 1027 as “Hella.” Yeah, that’s a big number: a one followed by 27 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Coincidentally, the universe is estimated to be 0.88 hella-meters across. That’s hella big, almost… ;-) To explore how big that really is, take a look at the [...]
