In this post, my second covering some exploration with my 7-yr-old son into #IoT and #maker projects, I’ll explore why we’ve moved on from the IOIO-OTG and into Arduino. If you’re new to all of this, have some coding ability, and crave the experience of working with dozens of cool sensors, then Grove is the…
Category: Technology
Getting into the Sparkfun Inventor’s Kit for IOIO
In this post, my first on a father & son journey into IoT, I’ll explore why I chose the Sparkfun Inventor’s Kit for IOIO, my impression after setup and notes on building the first 2 circuit projects. This approach seemed perfect not only to me, an IoT first-timer, but also looked ideal to support an…
APIs in Life, Music and Wiffleball
This talk expresses my love and intrigue of APIs, demonstrating where I’ve found platforms and APIs in real life, music and things like wiffleball. I have a lot of fun with this one. At one point during this talk, I walk across the stage (or room) and throw various wiffleball pitches at my laptop, with…
New approach to platform evangelism
Back in 2005 when the “mashup” craze was really taking off, we were getting reports at Yahoo! about how many developers were using our Maps API. The report was broken down into technologies, web sites, and how many API calls were made from each. Sites like programmableweb.com were busy cataloging platforms and counting how many…
Speaking of 2011
We’re all a couple of weeks into 2011. Time to get serious about planning for this year. First, I really enjoyed 2010. It was equally exciting and stable for me and my family. We didn’t move across the country — something we’ve done twice in the past 5 years. However, we did have a baby…
Returning to CES
The first and only time I’ve been to the great Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was 1996. My dad brought me during his remarkable streak (he went to them about 20 years in a row). 1996 was an incredible year in the consumer electronics space. At that show, the following were unveiled for the…
To everything, turn turn
While investigating page turning options for potential projects, I came across these impressive examples. One uses Flash and the other is done with HTML5. Flash, based on work by Didier Brun: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=77 http://www.didierbrun.com/foxaweb/demos/as3/pageflip/PageFlip.swf
Going Back to the Future at Adobe MAX 2010
This will be my 5th MAX, and by far, the busiest and most exciting. Here’s the many ways you can see me and our awesome team from litl in action during MAX 2010 in LA. My theme is Back to the Future. Read on and you’ll see why…
My blog turned 5 years old this month
With no fanfare or media coverage, my blog “Excerpts from the mind” quietly turned 5 years old this month. Having owned the domain chuckstar.com since 1997, I used it for portfolio, business and hosting projects until September 2005. My first post, which got lost in an early wordpress upgrade, talked about a car I was…
The end of software. A prediction.
My kid will never install software from a disc, thumb drive or any other medium. He will grow up in a world where all functionality he wishes to expand his device to, whether it be his tablet, communicator (what’s a phone?), large screen display or set top box (what’s a gaming console?) will be available…