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May 9, 2022

WS2818B SPI Controller for ATtiny85

Last year, I was working with a set of LEDs that are kind of dead common WS2818B LED assemblies. These are available on Amazon, Aliexpress, and pretty much any other electronics retailer.…

Jan 31, 2022

Beatrix and I Built a Computer

A while back, Ducky asked me if we could build a computer together. A normal parent would probably swing by Amazon and buy a keyboard, mouse, monitor, case, motherboard, and so on.…

Nov 23, 2021

Teaching STEM Online

Speaking of papers, Mina Sedaghatjou led a group of us across Europe, Canada, and the United States in a project on teaching STEM online. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, suddenly,…

Nov 18, 2021

Seeing the Future: Predicting Irregular Leadership Changes

Our new article "Crystal Cube: Forecasting Disruptive Events" is now available, gold open access, in Applied Artificial Intelligence . Here's the abstract: Disruptive events within a country can have global repercussions, creating…

Aug 5, 2021

Other Treaties Relating to Space

I've talked before about the Outer Space Treaty and the framework it provides for creating subsequent agreements. This type of work is not unfamiliar within international law. Often, broad themes are laid…

Aug 3, 2021

Working with the m4 Macro Language

I recently ran into a problem where I needed to generate a lot of configuration files with slightly different parameters included. This was all being fed into a simulation so we could…

Jan 20, 2021

Why is mRNA in My Vaccine?

Okay, this is complicated, so take a deep breath and work with me. When your cells are doing their thing, they need all sorts of material to get the job done. A…

Jan 13, 2021

My Talk on AR/VR/xR Ethics

I was invited to speak at the second JHU/APL XR Symposium on something. When I pitched the ethics of augmented reality and virtual reality, I had no idea what I was getting…

Dec 31, 2020

UMGC Gave Me a BA in East Asian Studies

Well, this is just getting ridiculous, now isn't it? So, you know, many years ago, I was playing with YouTube and stumbled across some video on self-hypnosis. I couldn't find it now…

Dec 26, 2020

GURPS Disaster Hurricane Design Notes

This one slipped by me last month. At the end of last year, GURPS Disaster: Hurricane came out for incorporating hurricanes into your roleplaying games, and GURPS in particular. Roger Bell West…