And the tetrapods and gabions look great, even if the round jar makes the cube looks like it’s melting haha. Yay shrimp!

I’m starting a new shrimp tank soon and I want to fill it with hollow tetrapods, commonly used for reenforcing shorelines. Their stable, interlocking shape combined with oblique surfaces for dispersing wave energy is idea. I just think they look cool, and think a carpet of them in a shrimp tank is both very aquatic […]

I was pleased with my last post on getting TinyLibrary up and running on an ESP32 (and WOOOO got a PR accepted to the ESP-IDF codebase for the standard ESP32 firmware for DHCP option 114), but really wanted something with some more RF and speed oomph. I worked on an off for a while to […]

I’ve been on a big ebook kick lately (currently rereading the first scifi I ever consumed as a little kid, Contact by Carl Sagan). The concept of written words that have been a major part of my development (or recreation) being subject to the same resilience, shareability, and indexing as other digital goods delights me, […]

Last week, I implanted a SmartMX3 P71D321 secure element chip in an ultra-thin, biosafe-polymer-enclosed form factor as provided by the Dangerous Things flexSecure implant in my left arm. This microprocessor + radio provides onboard compute and a 13.56Mhz NFC radio, with the chip accepting 200kB worth of Java Card applets (extremely feature-restrictive/resource-minimal Java). While this […]

This weekend I implanted an xSIID, an implant that is essentially a copy of my first xNT implanted chip, except that this one lights up when you scan it. I am now not just a cyborg, but a disco cyborg 😎 Implant was very smooth; you can see in the mid-implant photo all the topography […]

What an awesome review of a side project I’ve been really passionate about. And he couldn’t have described the site better. Super, super proud of seeing this in print.

For years, I’ve had an abiding love of machine code, the fundamental binary instructions that the CPU of a computer understands, ever since I took my first embedded systems course at Santa Clara University. Below all the user interfaces and flashiness of modern computers, there is a hunk of silicon which is reading ones and […]