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A Designer’s Point of View on the New Potential Habitable Planet
Artist: “So what should this thing look like?”
NASA engineer: “It’s 600 light-years away. How the @#$% should I know!”
Artist: “Picking a planet from an old Star Trek episode at random then.”
NASA engineer: “Ok. But no funny stuff. Save the stars, rainbows, and unicorns for your acid trips.”
Artist: “Nebulous clouds in the background- check.”
taken from http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2559186&cid=38270564
Finishing The Year Strong
I’m determined to finish 2011 strong.
The year is closing on us pretty fast but there is still plenty of time to get things done!
“Ramping Up” Instead Of “Winding Down”
Even though we’re hitting close to the holidays when most people think things are slow, we are ramping up our efforts to finish in big style.
iOS and Arduino using the Redpark Cable
A few weeks ago I was minding my own business when I a particular tweet caught my attention:
“$59 Cable Lets You Connect iPhone to Arduino — No Jailbreaking!”
I read the tweet and followed the link to the Make magazine article and immediately started thinking about what could be done with this. Because I had both an iPhone and an Arduino at home it was especially appealing to me and decided to get it. The problem was when the order arrived. Because it was all disassembled I couldn’t get it working. Luckily the good folks at AltLab helped in soldering the RS232 adapter.
And here’s the “Hello World”, having a switch on the iPhone app and controlling a small LED in the Arduino board :-)
Next baby steps: servos.
Resources:
- http://programmingiphonesensors.com
- http://developer.apple.com
- http://blog.makezine.com
Essential Time Management For Startups
When it’s comes to time management there are two very important things to be said:
1. Important Due Soon -> Important Not Due Soon
We tend to work on ‘important due soon’ tasks first. Once we get those done there is a tendency to start working on the ‘not important due soon’ issues where in fact we should work on the ‘important not due soon’ ones. That’s the only way to get ahead on your timeline.
2. Schedule Time for Quadrant II activities
What we consider important is normally tasks where there is an action to be performed somehow (crises, pressing problems, deadlines, etc.). These are called the Quadrant I activities and what happens is that you end up never doing any strategic, planning (Quadrant II) activities. The strategic/planning stuff is the things that will “oil your windmill” or “sharpen the saw”. That’s why it’s a good idea to schedule some time every week to review your previous week, plan the week after and see how you are performing in accordance to your business plan or goals.
