July 15, 2010 | Category: blinkm

We want to know what you (or anyone you know) has done with BlinkMs, MinMs or MaxMs! Send us documentation of your working BlinkM project and we will send you a MinM (which normally sells for $13-20). The first 50 people who send in a description that meets the requirements below will get a free MinM. If we think a description is particularly awesome, we’ll put it in our projects gallery, give you full credit, and link it to your blog/FB/Twitter page. Here’s what we need from you: A 300-word (or more!) step-by-step description of what you did. This doesn’t have the be the best documentation in the universe, but it should describe the project well enough so that someone could follow the [...]

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December 31, 1969 | Category:

Here is the transcript of my dorkbot talk. You can download the complete Powerpoint file from Slideshare or get an 800K PDF with all of the images and a transcript of the talk. Information is a Material Mike Kuniavsky dorkbot San Francisco July 7, 2010 Thank you Karen for inviting me back to present. It’s always a pleasure. First, let me tell you a bit about myself. Most of my professional career over the last 17 years has been spent as a creative director, interaction designer, researcher and user experience strategy consultant, mostly on the Web. I’ve worked with hundreds of companies. Among those I have had extended relationships with these three, the bottom two as a founder. ThingM is my current company. Most of this talk comes from a chapter in my upcoming book, called “Smart Things”, it’s on ubiquitous computing user experience design. It’s available for pre-order now and will ship sometime between the end of August and the middle of September. Peak MHz I want to start by mentioning a curious phenomenon. If you any of you follow developments in microprocessors, you’ll notice that the clock speed of today’s new CPUs is basically the same as that...

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May 30, 2010 | Category: arduino blinkm thingm

My company ThingM had an official presence at Maker Faire this year. We were showing off the BlinkM line, including the new BlinkM MinM and the LinkM USB BlinkM controller. It was a lot of fun. And packed!

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We were in the Maker Shed building, right underneath the Arduino banner, so we got lots of awesome questions about Arduino. The most common: “So I just picked up this thing that says ‘works with Arduino’…well, what *is* Arduino?” It was so great to see so many people interested [...]

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