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Monthly Archives: April 2008

SOCIALBOMB FTW!!

It is with incredible pride (and about equal parts shock and bewilderment) that I report that Socialbomb is the winner of NYU Stern’s Business Plan Competition! Out of the initial 155 teams that entered, Adam Simon, Scott Varland, Mihir Dange and I took on the last three on April 25 at the competition finals [...]

Boards are here!

Advanced Circuits is absurdly fast. I placed the order halfway through Monday and the boards showed up on Wednesday morning. I haven’t tested them yet, though I see at least one obvious goof on my part, so we’ll see how they work.
Updates to follow.

Logger mania!!

So this week has been the week of logger-fixing, with me trying to shrink the footprint of my previous logger while getting better data from the one I’ve been using. Most of the decision (actually, all) to move loggers has been based on the need to adjust what I’ve been doing to fit the [...]

Printing Boards

Thanks in no small part to the excellent write-up from my friend and Socialbomb compatriot Adam Simon, I’ve shipped my first round of boards out to Advanced Circuits for printing. The thesis marches on!

The boards for the personal unit are both done — microphone circuit on top, Arduino on bottom — and should be [...]

Bringing metrics to the people

I’m writing up all my thesis garbage right now, so I’ll have to explain my love of all this at a later date, but for now I wanted to post a bit about some of my favorite projects that really put data in the hands of anyone curious about it:
Cambridge Mobile Urban Sensing (CamMobSens)
and [...]

Soundbox prototype testing

I took the lil’ Soundbox around the floor with me for user testing this weekend, but prior to that I got a pretty good demo of it in use. The mic does a pretty good job of picking up different kinds ofsounds from all around the room, and the light responds accordingly.

Close-up clap demo [...]