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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
The breadboarded monster has finally been turned into a functional prototype!
The lm386 circuit I’d mentioned a bit ago here did the trick, so I just transferred the whole thing to a breadboard and slapped an Atmega168 (bootloaded with Arduino) under it. The unit has the full mic circuit on top (with mic and warm white [...]
It’s fun in my thesis that I get to assemble other people’s kits, evaluate them for usability, and then abuse the final product for my own methods.
(Note to self: find job in R&D in near future.)
I started by ordering a pile of kits from the folks at Anykits — they have outstanding prices and a [...]
So while I’ve bantered about the process of making the new SB 2.0 units and the things we’ve done with them, I haven’t given many nice images of them. So, let’s fix that:
Yay pretty pictures! The Documentation Station recently put up on the floor at ITP (a nice camera, a great lightbox, some [...]
Here we are at day two, which finds me blogging when I should be listening. And so it goes.
Yesterday I caught a pile of great talks, starting with Stamen Design’s data visualization session, moving on to Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk tutorial, and ending with Tim O’Reilly’s Radar.
We Socialbombers were also able to sneak into [...]
So here we are in San Diego. Adam, Scott and I got in late Saturday night, found our way to our hotel, and promptly went out in search of scotch. We found it! We then spent the past two days attempting to work on Socialbomb’s website, new leaderboard, and v2 prototype units. I say attempting [...]
