Category: Blog
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How To Do 100-Watt USB-C PD In The Car
I have personally found a good solution to this problem. Modern laptops like mine require a much higher power input than what you can get out of a normal USB car charger. In the past, I really like this 39-watt QC-3 charger which is what I use in the car for charging my phone. Now…
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Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good (Thrawn 10)
This is the second book of the third Thrawn trilogy. I really liked it. It was a great next step. I see a lot of really interesting attempts at explaining the background that allowed him to accomplish his later feats which featured in earlier stories. It was cool to see the way that other characters…
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Looking Glass
A screen which changes perspective with regard to how you’re looking at it versus what it’s showing inside a virtual world where it’s virtual correspondent is. So if it’s easier looking at it from the right side then it should show you what it would look like if you were actually looking through a window…
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Closed Loop Water System with Integrated Biogas Capture
I propose to build a simple proof of concept system which simultaneously solves many problems associated with water use sustainability. Key Problems With Current Strategies Essentially all municipal sewage systems around the world are still using the prehistoric systems pioneered in the indus valley civilization over 6,000 years ago. We take fresh water, use and…
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OurSpace: Distributed Serverless Anti-Hierarchical Social Media
The main idea is to use something like IPFS to establish a distributed non-hierarchical alternative to both the web and the incumbent social media institutions while also creating a resilient alternative which would form a thick protocol on top of which people can then construct and extend interfaces like apps or websites. Imagine I have…
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DIY Biogas Digester Research
Small biodigester build video IBC Tote based digester design Using a garbage disposal as an input grinder Algae mitigation Tank insulation Larger build hydrogen sulfide filter to clean the methane flashback arrestor methane storage with inverted barrel in water for pressure and isolation. Community-Scale Biogas Digester Includes condenser (yellow) which removes evaporated water…
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All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
This is the third book of The Bridge, a newer trilogy by Gibson which reintroduces many of his earlier ideas within the context of the new technologies that had come out since the Sprawl Trilogy. This book starts to tie everything together. I liked the way he portrayed Laney and I initially liked Konrad. It…
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Idoru by William Gibson
This is the second book of The Bridge, a newer trilogy by Gibson which reintroduces many of his earlier ideas within the context of the new technologies that had come out since the Sprawl Trilogy. One of my favorite pieces of this story is the concept of “nodal points,” “emergent systems of history,” “the shapes…
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Virtual Light by William Gibson
This is the first book of The Bridge, a newer trilogy by Gibson which reintroduces many of his earlier ideas within the context of the new technologies that had come out since the Sprawl Trilogy. In this first book, he ties together the ideas of existential and interstitial sociology and introduces a concept he calls…
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USP 530 – Session 13/14
April 28th and May 5th Sessions Thirteen and Fourteen: Student Presentations DIY PROJECTS