Sparkles of caffeinated nonsense
Yesterday night at 2am, the project that has been keeping me quite busy in the past monthes has hit the (soft) launch.
It’s been an incredible learning exercise, for the mind, the body and the heart.
Now let me finish the working week, pass out for 24 hours straight, and then I’ll try to go back to write something more meaningful.
Saturday and sunday I managed to get “out of the screen”, even though still geeking out at the Arduino workshop.
I discovered a new and fun way of approaching electronics, same as juggling has been a gateway to physics in the past.
For those of you who wonder, Arduino is a open electronic prototyping platform, that comes with a pretty simple programming environment, plenty of code and experiments to get your hands dirty and a very active practitioner community to support your efforts and achievements. Just have a look at youtube and get inspired!
Now I have the tools to make some of those physical computing related pet projects happen… will I have the will, and time, too? :)
Kudos to Alex, Nick and Brock. They’ve been amazing. And the class was quite challenging and fun too, an experience I can’t help but recommend. Oh, you can have an idea of what’s all about from the flickr group.
True, I said one week out :)
I’ve been spending a couple of weeks (almost non stop) kindly hosted by a client’s office in order to facilitate the launch of their new project.
Apparently there’ll be more (support, documentation, handover, other than the fun bug-squashing) so until the end of the month you’ll find me in the Fleet Street area more than in SE1.
Interesting discovering of the past week: the Leon Gobi.
I also realized that I didn’t write a word about the week spent in Italy.
I was at a Barcamp in Turin where I did a presentation about webdesign-meet-gamedesign (here my slides, in Italian), and at the girlgeekdinner in Milan (where I wasn’t the only UK based guest, as Sarah Blow, Maz Hardey and Amanda Lorenzani were also there).
The other surprise from my trip I wanted to write about is OpenSpime: almost by chance, stepping by Leandro’s, I had the chance to see a live preview of the first prototype, amazing. Good luck with the tour now, and call me in for the next brainstorm :P
To understand OpenSpime in a nutshell, watch this interview to David Orban on YDN:
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