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		<title>Open Hardware Summit, Sept 23, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what exactly is open source hardware?  We&#8217;re getting closer to a consensus definition, thanks to Ayah Bdeir and Eyebeam.  A few months ago, she put together a workshop on open source hardware, and invited a group of people who &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/378/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Physicality, Conviviality, and Openness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Physicality, conviviality, and openness are the themes of a series of talks I gave last week to the HCI group at RWTH Aachen, thanks to Jan Borchers.  These three ideas run through most of the work I&#8217;ve been doing over &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/375/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/375/</link>
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		<title>Practice, Practice, Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ashlynn Dewey just sent me links to a new Nike+ ad that she ran across that reminded her of our physical computing class(thanks, Ash!). It&#8217;s a great video that shows a couple of supercool Japanese DJs making music on specially &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/347/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/347/</link>
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		<title>Happy Ada Day, and thanks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today being Ada Lovelace Day (though I&#8217;d like to see Grace Hopper day too), it seems a good time to say thank you to three women without whom I wouldn&#8217;t be doing what I do. Stacy Horn, founder of Echo &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/343/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/343/</link>
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		<title>Random thoughts on consciousness and physical experience, coming together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had one of those wonderful moments where a bunch of ideas that had been floating around in my head for a number of years came together and made sense, thanks to a section of Alva Noë&#8217;s book Out &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/329/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/329/</link>
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		<title>MAKE: Electronics:  I love this book!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make: Electronics, Charles Platt.  © 2009 Make Books, Sebastapol, CA; 1st edition ISBN: 0596153740 Just go buy it. It&#8217;s the best introductory book I&#8217;ve read on electronics. To start with, the book is gorgeous.  Maybe you can&#8217;t judge a book by &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/322/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/322/</link>
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		<title>Traceroute Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The students in my Understanding Networks class had a short assignment this past week, to run a couple dozen traceroutes, and do visualizations with the results.  A few interesting points came out of it. Alejandro Kaufmann did traces mostly on &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/networks/303/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/networks/303/</link>
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		<title>Idle speculation on the shan zhai and open fabrication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategy &#38; Business magazine has an interesting article on the shan zhai manufacturers in China at the moment. It&#8217;s the first business press article I&#8217;ve seen in the US that takes a relatively balanced approach to reporting on them.  It&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/environment/295/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/environment/295/</link>
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		<title>Just like Riding a Bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The chances are good that if you&#8217;re reading this, you probably know how to ride a bicycle.  You probably learned so many years ago that you don&#8217;t even remember how you learned.  When you get on a bike now, it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/287/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/287/</link>
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		<title>Word Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, a one-car train of the R142/142A generation of NYC subway cars starts up at approximately 33rd st. on the Lexington line.  It&#8217;s carrying 16 people.  With the throttle rigged to full-speed, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/283/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/283/</link>
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		<title>Bye, Nick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick West passed away yesterday after fighting cancer for about two years now. Nick was a major influence on me when I was a student at ITP, and a good friend, so I want to write down some of my &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/276/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/276/</link>
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		<title>A novel idea: repair instructions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Given how pervasive the idea of planned obsolescence is, I&#8217;m always on the lookout for counterexamples &#8212; cases where a company actually wants you to fix what you bought from them, and keep it longer, rather than just replacing it &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/271/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/271/</link>
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		<title>SIGGRAPH Asia E-Tech call for participation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the jury for SIGGRAPH Asia&#8217;s Emerging Tech this year, thanks to Lars Erik Holmquist. Looking forward to seeing some great submissions, so submit! Here&#8217;s the CfP: Call for participation: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: ADAPTATION SIGGRAPHA ASIA 2009 Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/268/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/268/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Tracking adventures (the complete story)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few people asked for the story of my visit to Tony Di Fiore&#8217;s research site in chronological order.  Here are all the posts in order: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/266/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/266/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s next: TEI, Shenzen, Tokyo, Etech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been collecting notes and ideas on open source hardware (and open fabrication in general) and sustainable technology development for awhile now, and over the next few weeks I&#8217;ll finally get a chance to try them out in a couple &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/262/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/misc/262/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Tracking Adventures (coda)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home now, after a couple days of traveling back from Tiputini.  The trip home was calm, but not without a few interesting moments. The trip home was basically a repeat of the trip downriver, but with a lot more &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/260/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/260/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[18 Jan 2009 Fourth day no big generator. The morning is overcast, and a bit muggy. Summarizing my project notes from the whole trip so far: Notes on gear use Each researcher carries four main pieces of electronic equipment in &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/257/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/257/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 9)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[17 Jan 09 As to how the new undergrads are: loud.  I know all about the dating lives of the guys in the next cabin now. It&#8217;s another sunny day, hot for walking, but very pleasant otherwise. Not much to &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/255/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/255/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 8)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[16 Jan 09 Big generator still out today so we&#8217;re still operating on the small one. Conserving power, and no internet this morning. Running on battery power as long as I can. Proxmity Tracking paper Reading the proximity paper I &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/253/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/253/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Tracking Adventures (part 7)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[15 Jan 2009 There&#8217;s a group of howler monkeys voicing their opinions nearby as I type.  I can hear them through the window. It&#8217;s pretty quiet, so they&#8217;re probably several hundred meters away in the forest, I&#8217;m guessing. Saw tamarind &#8230; <a href="http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/244/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tigoe.net/blog/category/physicalcomputing/244/</link>
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