Category: Projects
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Inspirations
Several figures are inspirations for this project. Chief among them is Pieter Levels. His open revenue dashboard shows his several projects and monthly revenue, along with a graph. His dashboard also shows the status of many serverless bots which perform tasks to facilitate his projects. This enables him to be an effective solopreneur and digital…
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Takeaways
Another amazing year at Burning Man! The man burn was amazing as you can see in this video… View this post on Instagram The man has burned! 365 days until the man burns. A post shared by CJ Trowbridge (@cjtrowbridge) on Sep 2, 2018 at 6:20am PDT Probably the most dangerous thing I…
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Micro Grids and Burning Man
Elon Musk famously came up with the idea for Solar City while at burning man, observing the ubiquitous microgrids which power the temporary city. Every home should work this way, he reasoned. At Burning Man, each city block has many microgrids. They range from very small to very large, and they take many forms. There…
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How To Build a Microgrid
A microgrid is a relatively small power grid which takes electricity from a source, stores it for use, and distributes it to devices. This can range from the size of a town to a neighborhood to a single home. The principles are the same. Based on this definition, chances are you already have one or…
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DIY: Raspberry Pi NAS
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to configure a Raspberry Pi NAS. Network Attached Storage (Also known as Network Accessible Storage or a NAS) essentially creates a shared folder on your local network which lets all your computers and devices access the files stored there. You will need a Raspberry Pi. I am using…
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Librarian
A distributed app called Librarian. It has access to all of wikipedia, brittanica, and other libraries via gittorrent or something like that so that nodes can share content and update it together. A user query can answer questions about entries. For example, “What is x,” gives the abstract for x. Then research questions like cross-referencing…
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2018 Gear List
This year, I have changed almost all my gear. For the first time, I have my own complete microgrid and a double-tent. I also replaced almost all non-rechargeable devices. This year, my burn will be far more sustainable and very low stress. My gear list makes all that possible. Home Sweet Home v2 This pic…
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My Sticker Submission
Every year, Burning Man holds a contest for the many official stickers they will print and distribute related to the theme. This year’s theme is I, Robot after the book by Isaac Asimov. I took my inspiration from the cover art for Asimov’s sequel to I, Robot. This is the design I created and submitted.…
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School Workflow: Triple Full-Time
For the last year, I have been a student who consistently takes at least a double to triple full-time workload. I am not superman, but I do have a 4.0 GPA. I also spend a great deal of my time traveling and having vacations and adventures. All of this has been an intensely complex effort,…
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Micro-Gigs
Today in America and across much of the world, there exist predatory lending institutions which are happy to give short-term loans at high interest rates to essentially anyone. The most common and obvious example is the payday loan. If you drive through “the wrong part of town,” you will see these on at least as…