I’ve been reconfiguring my desk to accomodate my research, design, and teaching work. One of the favorite features of my home office is the two giant walls with whiteboard “paint”. Of course, the big downside to walls of white boards instead of framed white boards is the lack of a tray for the markers. I’ve tried to keep them on my desk but I kept losing them. I decided to build a marker holder to help. I plan on sticking it to the wall with command strips. ...

As of January 21st, Flash is dead. I made my career creating Flash (and Director!) interactions. I remember in Spring semester of 1998 staying up through the night to learn how to mimic the look of GaboCorp’s all Flash site. Fast forward ten years and I had moved from agency work to being an internal designer at Black & Decker. I was generating dozens and dozens of instructional videos that got placed in online learning courses for the sales force. I was deep into learning AppleScript to automate different parts of work flows (mostly resizing graphics, converting audio, etc) and wondered if I could drop the videos I was making in Final Cut Pro and Compressor into a script that would convert to (at the time) standard FLV files. I finally found a solution using the traditionally Linux-based tool FFmpeg, it’s OSX shareware-version, and some AppleScript shell scripts. I wrote what I came up with at Using Applescript and FFmpeg (through ffmpegX) to create Flash Video Files (FLV). ...

This set of wings is really a harness for outdoor adventure. I really like this example of design because it not only functions, but, it makes the target audience (children) interested in what it does (safety). Kids want to wear it because it is cool.

One of the most frustrating things as a researcher is keeping all of my sources and references organized. Fortunately, I’ve been using the BibTex format for some time and have minimized loosing sources once I have them. One of my colleagues at UMD posted this: I do! Each paper is a page (to collate \[\[context\]\]), and I identify "micropublications" (findings/claims that are contextualized) as blocks within these paper pages, then blockref them into outlines/notes where I synthesize ideas. Ex screenshot: pic.twitter.com/b7K2LdhZiD ...

I hope that I am able to acheive these goals in 2021: Complete three design classes Build a large format 3D printer See Bison IRL

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