Monthly Archives: September 2009
New Toy: Chumby!! (open source hardware!)
I get to play with a Chumby! Chumby is an open source hardware “Window to the Internet”, or ambient information display, meaning it scrolls through a variety of information sources and presents the data for you to check out at a … Continue reading
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Electronics Update: My New Workbench
I’ve finally arrived in Cambridge: I built myself a work bench to do electronics on. That means I’ve finally arrived here! I think it’s pretty sweet. Here are Star’s essentials: Stuff on the desk: my awesome weller soldering iron (I … Continue reading
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Blog Statistics are Beautiful
I can hardly describe how warm it makes me feel inside that the number one search term that leads to my blog is “interesting questions to ask” which resulted in 45 clicks to boranj.wordpress.com in the last 30 days. Also … Continue reading
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MIT is awesome + Blog Scale-Down
Wow, I’m really enjoying MIT — there are a lot of things I missed about Cambridge and didn’t really realize it, mostly the way that nearly everyone you meet on a given day is utterly driven over something and eager … Continue reading
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Playtime Programming Party
I just threw Boston’s 1st party on playing with Programming-Languages-I’ve-Been-Meaning-To-Try, and I think it was a great success! I invited over a whole bunch of people to convene on the goal of playing with programming languages they’ve always been meaning … Continue reading
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“Triple Equals” => Secret JavaScript Kung Fu Revelation!
I got really psyched about an online wordgame called DeepLeap recently — I think it does a fantastic job of requiring and encouraging intelligence (at least, lexical depth, creativity, and swift thinking) — so I looked through the JavaScript code it’s … Continue reading
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