EL Wire is a flexible wire that glows when you apply electricity to it. I am seeing more and more things trimmed with EL Wire and it makes for interesting effect. If you watched America’s Got Talent you might have seen a finalist called Team iLuminate. The iLuminate team used EL Wire to create animations and lighting… Continue reading EL Pumpkin is Spanish for Electroluminescent Pumpkin
Month: October 2011
Internet of Things Talk at Carnegie Mellon University
Last weekend was the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I gave a talk on the Internet of Things and building apps using the Perl programming language as the connective tissue between devices and web applications. I covered the basics on how you interface devices to the real-world. I also… Continue reading Internet of Things Talk at Carnegie Mellon University
Thank You, Steve Jobs
My parents saved up Campbell’s Soup labels and gave them to my school. For whatever rational, the school would get computers from Apple based on the number of soup labels collected. We got a lab of Apple II’s, then came along the IIe, IIgs, and finally the Macintosh. I spent most of my early time on the Apple… Continue reading Thank You, Steve Jobs
