The Perfect Pour

This weekend, I joined Silicon Chef Hardware Hackathon. Our team (Veronica, Stephanie, Judith, Yan & Me) created a smart beer cozy! An Arduino based project that can detect how well you are pouring and prevents you from spilling the beer. We used a 3-axis Accelerometer to detect the tilt angel. Messages are displayed in the LCD screen to signal you whether you are pouring too fast or too slow. And guess what? We won an Arduino project book as the prize! The code is in github.

Bay Area Modular Electronics Meetup

I started organizing Bay Area Modular Electronics Meetup! The group is for hackers exploring the modular design techniques of hardware design, hacking and all things electronics.

Ford OpenXC Workshop

This weekend, I was in Techshop San Jose attending Ford OpenXC workshop. Learned how to use OpenXC to read from CAN bus. Did surface mount soldering for the 1st time. It was CRAZY!

A gift from littlebits

Just received a starter kit from littlebits. They are sponsoring 'Bay Area Modular Electronics Meetup'.

MSP430 based Heart Rate Monitoring

I was working with Alanson on a heart-rate monitoring project to explore energy harvesting technology. We primarily explored TI MSP430 based systems to come up with the lowest possible power consuming HRM system. Unfortunately, the project died prematurely as I left Portland. Below sample EKG schematic.

Maker Faire Bay Area 2013

Had great fun this week at Make Hardware Innovation Workshop 2013 at the College of San Mateo. An amazing group of energetic people working on different aspects of hardware innovation. Agenda with video link here.

I got to try a Pebble watch!

Later that weekend was Maker Faire Bay Area. A few snap from the greatest show and tell of earth!

TEDxPortland 2013

I attended TEDxPortland 2013 at Portland Art Museum. Kate Bingaman-Burt and Dr. Lauri Marker are AWESOME!

Courtesy: Branden Harvey Photography http://brandenharvey.com/