I’ll be doing a full writeup of all this nonesense shortly, but he’s a pile of photos from the cricket progress thus far:
Meant to post this earlier: testing the Crickets in action — video-styles!
This is just a breadboard prototype — it’s still just a pile of wires sitting in a takeout container, so visually it’s nowhere near there yet, but you can hear the song just fine from half a block away. We’ll see how it [...]
With Conflux just weeks away, it’s probably a good time to start posting my advances with the new Concrete Cricket designs.
I took a really good look at my first boards for the concept I presented back in May, and spent some time getting a more power-efficient, louder, generally less buggy design together. I’m actually [...]
Everything breaks. Every person and every system have different ways of addressing it. Being someone who tinkers with many things still in beta, I’ve seen a lot of crashy things lately.
Favorite error messages from this week:
…that last one was my boss. Kidding. Or at least I hope so.
So I’m both really stoked and a little annoyed, as we Social Bomb folk didn’t do it first, but MIT Medialab’s Burak Arikan (in collaboration with Cenk Dolek and Engin Erdogan) came up with this addictively fun game called Meta-Markets about trading internet currencies like your facebook profile, del.icio.us bookmarks and flickr photos as if [...]
Wow. This is really flattering. And a little scary.
Crickets in MAKE.
The comments are my favorite though — some people are right in line with what I’m thinking of doing next (going more industrial, making them more of an installation and less of a throw-and-go item), and some are just worried about the cops. I think [...]
