09 Jan 2018
KinetiConnect: Multidimensional Motion Quantification
With the recent advancements in transportation and smart vehicles, I was surprised to find that electronic vehicles and smart cars still lack the ability to measure and analyze real-time motion data given the significance of insights possible. Realizing the value of the kinetic data and the diversity of insights, I decided to create a fully connected IoT device that can quantify 3D acceleration data and enable real-time analyses and visualization of that 3D motion data. Furthermore, I coupled this data with noise and temperature information to create additional context and implement safety features.
Despite the obtuse title, looks liek a cool little project using the Onion Omega2 platform to build a vehicle telemetry app using AWS Iot and Kinesis.
23 Dec 2017
Electronics Tutorials
A super useful site with lots of basic informaion on circuits and
electronic components – resistors, transistors, logic, power and lots
in between!
20 Dec 2017
Lpil/dogma
A code style linter for Elixir, powered by shame.
Wins the “best tag-line for a linter” award.
07 Dec 2017
Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-energy Future
Digital financial transactions come with a real-world price: The tremendous growth of cryptocurrencies has created an exponential demand for computing power. As bitcoin grows, the math problems computers must solve to make more bitcoin (a process called “mining”) get more and more difficult — a wrinkle designed to control the currency’s supply.
Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the U.S. for one day. And miners are constantly installing more and faster computers. Already, the aggregate computing power of the bitcoin network is nearly 100,000 times larger than the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers combined.
Energy is the fuel that keeps the Bitcoin engine running. Just to keep the exchange of BTC and verifying the transaction records takes energy. So what happens when the energy required becomes prohibitivly expensive?
07 Dec 2017
Parcel.js
Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler
I was just talking with some folks at a meetup last night about the pain of webpack configuration. In previous jobs, spinning up a new app was a regular thing so I got pretty adept at doing the webpack dance, but at the current gig, I’m working on a large React app that was setup before I got here so I havent had to dive into webpack for over a year! This is going on the short list of things to check out with my next pide project.