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Cornell’s First Startup Career Fair
I recently helped organize Cornell’s first annual startup career fair, hot on the heels of working on Cornell’s NYC Tech Campus Bid. I was simultaneously recruiting for MakerBot Industries at the fair.
Winner of IEEE-USA’s “New Faces of Engineering – College Edition”
I’m honored to announce that I was selected as the first annual “New College Face of Engineering” for IEEE-USA (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Don’t expect to see my face plastered on any billboards anytime soon, but it’s still exciting to be recognized by such a prestigious organization – I’m proud to call myself a member of IEEE.
Immortalized in Song
Yes, you heard me right. Atdiy, of the ZombieTech Podcast (I was their guest recently), wrote and recorded a lovely song about me battling zombified, 3D-Printed, PLA plastic. Be sure to give the podcast a quick listen if you haven’t yet – I discuss the tools I would use to[…]
Open Hardware Summit and Maker Faire Wrapup
Yes, that’s me with the Arduino Team at Makerfaire! If you follow me on twitter, then you’ll certainly know that I spent last weekend in New York City for the 2nd Annual Open Hardware Summit and the 2011 World Maker Faire. I covered the Open Hardware Summit for element14 Electronics (hence[…]
My First (Useful) Makerbot Print!
If you’re a regular reader of my blog, or if you follow me on twitter, you probably know that I’m working at Makerbot Industries this summer. It’s been a blast so far – everybody is very intelligent, and truely excited about the work they are doing. I’ve been working on[…]
Inspiring Kids at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
I hope all of you celebrated Earth Day this past Friday! Last week was Earth Week at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in New York City, and I headed down there for 3 days with other members of Cornell University’s Sustainable Design Team to teach kids about ways they could be[…]
Workbench of the Week!?
My Lab workbench was featured on “The Amp Hour: Episode 30” on 02/15/11 A few weeks ago, I discovered the totally awesome Amp Hour Podcast. I even blogged about its awesomeness! Anyways, they have a segment on the show called workbench of the week, and I figured I’d send in[…]
Building an Engineer [Ignite Talk 2010]
This video was featured on the Adafruit Blog on 12/22/10 This video was featured on the Dangerous Prototypes Blog on 12/22/10 This video was featured on the Makezine Blog on 12/22/10 The talented Jonas Neubert, an associate of mine from Cornell’s Computational Synthesis Lab, as well as the organizer of[…]
Ignite Ithaca 2010
Watch the Live Stream of the Event! Enlighten Us. But make it quick! That’s the motto of the Ignite Speaker series. The premise is that a bunch of presenters go up in front of an audience, and talk about something cool. Each person gets 5 minutes, and 20 slides that[…]
Upgrading my Computer (Ultimate Computer 5 –> 8)
This year, I decided to move out of the dorms at Cornell, and rent an apartment with 4 friends. Naturally, we wanted to have some kind of entertainment system, but didn’t want to pay a monthly cable bill, since we hardly watch live TV anyways (hulu is where it’s at). […]