Arduino, Raspberrry PI, or any SPI enabled device: Speak Now!

I happened across an interesting Kickstarter project, BIG BUDDY TALKER , an inexpensive way to add natural sounding speech to your next project. It features more than 1000 sounds (visit the Kickstarter to see the current list of words) that … Read More

Review: The Turing Exception

The Turing Exception by William Hertling My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 out of 5.0 for the book and 5 out of 5 for the series – Amazing glimpse into what our future could be.

I started William … Read More

Fitbit Sleep Data Analysis

Do you ever wonder how your sleep patterns stack up against other Fitbit users? Well, the people at Fitbit did. They gathered 2015 sleep data from over 10 million Fitbit users and compared the statistics by generation (Millennial, Gen X, … Read More

Review: Quarantine

Quarantine by Greg Egan My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 out of 5 — Futuristic hard Sci-Fi with a great premise and so-so characters.

Warning: Not treadmill safe. Listening to or reading this book while on a treadmill … Read More

Raspberry Shake online!

Today, I received my Raspberry Shake (an inexpensive professional grade personal seismograph) that uses a Raspberry Pi for data collection, processing, and uploading data (if you choose to share seismic data with the world).

It took only a few minutes … Read More