I was one of the lucky winners of Sparkfun’s Google+ BigTime Watch Kit giveaway. It was a pretty neat little kit to build and it keeps time amazingly well. It’s a bit scary to wear out in public though. Here are some pics:
Feb 202012
Feb 012012
A while ago I received a Mr. Beer Kit as a gift but I waited until the winter to give it a try because the summer temperatures in El Paso can be quite drastic. I am brewing the Blonde Ale extract that came with the kit. It has been sitting in the fermenter for almost [...]
Jan 132012
I received a Beaglebone as a birthday gift. It is a powerful little board that contains Texas Instrument’s Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor. According to the BeagleBone website, “The BeagleBone is the low-cost, high-expansion hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard.” You can find out more about it here: http://beagleboard.org/bone. The following are some notes I took while getting acquainted [...]
AI Class has finally finished and I am very glad I took part in this educational experiment. The past ten weeks have been full of adventure and I have learned a lot. Before this class, I had never heard of Bayes Thereom, let alone Particle Filters. Now, however, I understand the differences between Breadth First [...]
Dec 312011
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers a great introduction to computer science that uses the Python programming language. The class is called 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming and it’s part of MIT’s OpenCourseWare–a selection of free and open educational materials. Video lectures, homework assignments, and exams are all available at it’s website. [...]