More on this storage device.
Working with a robot: Drobo in action - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Take that you young punks with your whole life ahead of you!
Older 'Net users giving youngsters a run for their money - Ars Technica
150,000 LED chips on a $15 silicon wafer?
Slashdot | LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented
Okay it's getting out of hand now.
Spime Watch: Pachube Wranglers | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
Interesting insights from Usman, who is insanely responsive to user queries. Still having fun with this.
Pachube, Patching the Planet: Interview with Usman Haque | UgoTrade
Two dead and one injured in the effort to free two CONAP employees kidnapped a week ago by illegal settlers in the Laguna del Tigre reserve.
Dos muertos y un herido tras liberación de guardas forestales en Guatemala
Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown ... | Business | The Guardian
After my time but formative.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 365 Days #28 - The Fairfax High School Marimba Band (mp3s)
If you say so. Window into their world.
Photo by M.R. Taufik
January 26 Annular Eclipse Photos | Universe Today
Installs in Firefox. via Bre.
Wikipedia - Grey Lady | userstyles.org
In the smallest alpha test on record, one other person and I tested the pachtweet app for Pachube. Setting graphed values and text through Twitter. Will be released this week. I'm a tweeting fool.
pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet - C4C Pachtweet test
elPeriodico de Guatemala » Pais » Guatemala: la guerra por la ruta entre "los Zetas" y "Pelones"
Profoundly silly, but a good first project for the class to use a servo.
Easy DIY Home Automation (using servo switches)
Love this DIY world.
ladyada's ranting » Blog Archive » Wattcher! For when you want to watch your Watts
Update: The boards inside the Kill-a-Watt unit shown by this tutorial are different from what I find inside mine, and from what I see in other KAW hacks online. Need to clarify the differences.
You want power, you get emissions. Can we change that?
Browse Polluters in New York, New York | PlanetHazard
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring - NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
New York State Air Quality Monitoring Center Home
Survey of gas sensors and their implementation.
Sensor Workshop at ITP | Reports / Gas Sensors
Sensor project
AIR Project - Still Open
Preemptive Media :: AIR
New staff find White House in tech Dark Ages - Washington Post- msnbc.com
PepsiCo Figures Tropicana's Carbon Footprint - NYTimes.com
Citrus groves use a lot of nitrogen fertilizer, which requires natural gas to make and can turn into a potent greenhouse gas when it is spread on fields.
PepsiCo finally came up with a number: the equivalent of 3.75 pounds of carbon dioxide are emitted to the atmosphere for each half-gallon carton of orange juice.
Slashdot | Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump
Researchers have just identified the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made. The batch was produced as part of the Manhattan Project, but predates Trinity — the first nuclear weapon test — by seven months. It was unearthed in a waste pit at Hanford, Washington, inside a beaten up old safe.
Update: More nuclear archaeology - trucker creates accurate replica of the first atom bomb.
A Reporter at Large: Atomic John: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
The peso gained (just .7 percent) due to speculation that investors may be ready to take more risks now, but Mexico announced that their oil production fell over 9 percent in 2008, the biggest drop since WWII.
Bloomberg.com: Latin America - Mexico Peso Gains Most in Almost a Week as Risk Appetite Rises
Mexican crude production down 9.2 percent in 2008 - Salon.com
New York Times' blog on their own development efforts.
Code - Open Blog - NYTimes.com
TabascoHOY.com :: Cautiva Tenosique a Hugo Stiglitz
Y es que seguro de promover la riqueza natural del lugar, declaró haber encontrado mas de lo que esperaba al recorrer toda la zona del río San Pedro, Usumacinta, y la boca del cerro.
Whitehouse.gov - Energy & Environment
Looking for a procedure to combine clips that were recorded across two cards, I found this. Still haven't been able to download the new version of XDCAM Transfer utility, but I'll keep trying. UPDATE: version I have (2.1) does the trick.
Apple - Support - Discussions - Sony XDCAM EX import Workflow ...
Nice when things come together. I bought a Kill a Watt meter last week. It has no computer interface. But someone has put an Xbee chip inside so it can tweet your current usage. And I just started Twitter. And Pachube will soon have a Twitter application.
MAKE: Blog: Tweet-a-watt - our entry for the Core77 & Greener Gadgets design competition
(via Tim O'Reilly on Twitter)
Pres. Obama's science adviser. Talk delivered at The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, New York.
John Holdren on Global Climatic Disruption
Guess I'm not the only one who's a bit confused.
Twitter Blog: How @replies work on Twitter (and how they might)
From Tim O'Reilly's twitter feed (guess this old dog can learn a new trick, even if he's the last one to learn it), one man's collection of links to articles on China passing the U.S. in green energy and efforts to slow climate change.
Tom Raftery's Bookmarks Tagged With "china"
I started writing a tutorial this morning on using Arduino and the Danger Shield to connect to Pachube. Zach "Hoeken" Smith, the designer of the Danger Shield (multiple sliders, sensors and displays for Arduino) invited me to add it to his site. Still in progress but it might help some folks get started.
ZachHoeken.com: Connecting To The World with Danger Shield
Mexican film star Hugo Stiglitz will visit Tabasco to scout locations for a film and work with tourism authorities to promote the southern part of the state.
'Me invitó el presidente municipal de Tenosique, para que vayamos a conocer la región, yo ya conozco desde hace muchos años, pero querían que yo fuera otra vez, para que hiciéramos un programa de Turismo y ecología para la zona de Usumacinta y toda la zona del sur del estado', indicó Stiglitz.
He's particularly interested in legends and traditions of Tenosique, including the dance of the Pochos and a tale called "El Duende de la selva", the ghost (monster, dwarf, goblin) of the jungle.
TabascoHOY.com :: Filmará Stiglitz película en Tenosique
Pachube, the online sensor database repository, continues to make it easier to share and access data online. My only disappointment: The Pachube2Sketchup app is still "coming soon".
pachube.apps | connecting environments, patching the planet
E-waste looms behind solar-power boom | Green Tech - CNET News
(photo by Simón Hernández)
A 42 year-old lawyer and another man, 30 years-old, apparently threw grape juice, oil and some salty substances on 27 out of 33 statues in the La Venta Park in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. They claimed they were performing a prehispanic ritual. The statues are now stained and discolored, and authorities are devising a cleaning and restoration strategy.
TabascoHOY.com :: Dañan vándalos piezas olmecas en Museo La Venta
We're recycling (repurposing) the plastic case.
Go for it.
A Cheap Solution for Getting to Mars? | Universe Today
The museo Carlos Pellicer Cámara in Villahermosa, Tabasco has been closed for months due to this season's severe flooding.
TabascoHOY.com :: En el abandono museo Carlos Pellicer Cámara
A General Electric film, made in 1945, that is used in a least one Physical Computing class in college today. From the Prelinger Archives.
Internet Archive: Details: Principles of Electricity
We recycled a number of old computers and printers yesterday in an event sponsored by Tekserve and the Lower East Side Ecology Center. I trust those folks to choose recyclers wisely but I certainly did not check where it was all going.
Slashdot | The Scope of US E-Waste
Update: from the LESEC website FAQ:
What happens to the computers that people bring to this event?
Computer equipment dropped off during our events is loaded into trucks and transported by the our contracted electronics recycling company (Sims Recycling Solutions) to their facility. At the recycling facility all information from the hard drive is erased and the equipment is evaluated and tested for reuse potential. Electronics are then de-manufactured into component parts and recycled. Certain easily reusable components such as memory chips get harvested for reuse or refurbished for resale.
De-manufacturing involves separating equipment into 4 major categories:
1) Plastic
2) Circuit boards
3) Cathode ray tubes (CRT*) glass
4) Scrap metal
Plastic and scrap metal go to respective recyclers. Circuit boards and CRT glass go to metal/lead smelters.
*(A cathode ray tube – CRT – is the video display component of TV’s & monitors, which has lead added to the glass to protect the user from x-rays generated in the CRT)
Is any of the recycled material sent overseas?
No. We share your concern about dumping electronic waste on develping countries. Therefore we require that our vendors recycle all collected materials in the US and provide us with documentation about their down stream vendors. We audit this information to confirm validity.
It was fairly painless to set up the "official" Arduino ethernet shield following Usman's instructions on Pachube. This page allows remote control of Arduino outputs, if you have an account log-in:
Web page - Remote Control Arduino
Next step is a cheap webcam so I can confirm the control changes remotely. Fun.
Possible results of $30 billion invested in technology:
ITIF provides a detailed analysis and estimate of the short-term jobs impacts of spurring investment in three critical digital networks: broadband networks, the smart grid (making the electric distribution system intelligent) and health IT, and outlines policy steps to spur this investment.
From the Wall STreet Journal. Debate over Van Jones' approach to the green economy.
Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Green Jobs: One Goal, Two Different Paths
Corny but cheap enough. It is a glorified music box that plays Scott Joplin's "The Pianist" among others. It hit the gadget blogs a couple of years ago and disappeared. But stupid.com still has stock - $12.99 each.
The Pianist - Robotic Piano Hand : Stupid.com
Digtal TV options for short distances.
Getting from here to there digitally
The first useful step-by-step project I have seen for the new (official) Arduino Ethernet Shield.
Once I get this going, I can free up the old iBook that is running the Pachube sensors. This clear tutorial also includes a webpage for control of the digital outs on a remote Arduino. Thanks to Usman for his continuing development on Pachube!
Arduino Ethernet and Pachube: remote sensors & web-control | pachube.community
For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can't - NYTimes.com
Developing Assistive Technology » Assistive Tech Labs
For project X.
Testing, Testing, ChipCorder | Popular Science
Yes this site is becoming my scratchpad. Bear with me. You may need to know this some day.
PortForward.com - What is port forwarding?
Port Forwarding for the Broadnext BritePort 8120
People more obsessed than I am.
Energy.Techhouse.org - Energy Consumption
Nice simple circuit.
Instructables - Self Sufficient Arduino Board
Smart metering, gray power, national grid.
The Nation - A Green Stimulus for the People
Checking power consumption, but there's other good info in here.
Apple - Environment - Resources - Environmental Performance
For our OspreyCam. And maybe EastRiverCam
furious green cloud: Arduino Speaks to LANC Devices (Camera)
Goose's Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Zoomduino - Arduino Zoom Controller
The pan tilt servos:
Lynxmotion - Pan and Tilt Kit #RK-PT-200
Controlled like this:
Moving Servos with a SSC-32 and an Arduino - LearnHub
Plus some inspiration from this guy:
The Long Way Home: New Pan Tilt Head
Now let's do it over ethernet. And the Internet.
From the folks who brought you Arduino, a way to control your Mac with it.
Tinker it now! » Control your Mac from Arduino, the easy way
Earthcam and others.
dailywireless.org » New Year's Eve EarthCams
And about that new, LED ball they used:
Times Square Alliance - New Year's Eve - About The Ball
Working on the Lantronix Ethernet devices for Arduino.
code, circuits, & construction :: Sensorbase datalogger
And because that's the way I need it: