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Stickers are here!

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Stickers are here!

Stickers are here, just in time for the holidays!

Each sticker measures 8.5 x 1.5″ and is made of a high quality weatherproof vinyl, suitable for indoor or outdoor use.

Want some stickers?  For a limited time, go to the contact form and enter “sticker request” in the subject field.  Include your mailing address and within two weeks you’ll have some free stickers as a thanks for being a reader of the site.

The free stickers are gone!  Don’t worry, if you sent a request before today (01/03/09) you’ll still get your stickers.  I hope to have stickers available again soon.

A big shout out to Contagious Graphics, who were cheaper and have lower minimum order quantities than most other sticker vendors I looked at.  If you need stickers, check them out – tell them I sent you!

Events

The Crucible’s Gifty Art Sale this Weekend

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Crucible Holiday Gift Sale

The Crucible is having their annual Gifty Art Sale this weekend (December 13th -14th) from 10AM to 4PM.

The Crucible is an industrial arts school in West Oakland where you can take classes in welding, machine shop, neon sign construction, glassblowing, beads, and fire performance.  I took the machine shop class there last year and absolutely loved it.

The Crucible also puts on an event every year called the Fire Arts Festival which is part carnival, part outdoor theater, part Burning Man, and part fiery, burning chaos.  Check it out next year if you haven’t seen it before, it is definitely one of the Bay Area’s top ten events of the year.

Events

Blip Festival 2008 Video

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My good friend Mark in NYC shot this awesome video of the 2008 Blip Festival at The Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.  He used a Canon HV20 digital HD camcorder with very impressive low light abilities.

Blip Festival 2008 from Mark M on Vimeo.

I also shot some photos of the event, most are available on flickr.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Warning, MySpace links ahead.  Shields up!

Cheap Dinosaurs making his Gameboy sing:

Blip Festival 2008

Bit Shifter, one of the major forces behind the 8bitpeoples label:

Blip Festival 2008

USK, performing with Anamanaguchi:

USK

Blip Festival 2008 was awesome and we’ll definitely be looking forward to 2009!

Books and Resources, Electronics

Horowitz and Hill: The Art of Electronics

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The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz and Hill, has been referred to by some as the electronics bible.  Within its 1125 pages are everything from a “what is a resistor?” level introduction to passive and active circuits to a thorough treatment of op-amps, phased locked loops, logic family interfacing, and shielding and noise elimination techniques.  This book has some of everything, at least everything that was relevant to electronics engineering in 1989 when it was last updated.

True, this means it is horribly out of date with regards to computers, microcontrollers, and EDA/CAD tools – but this is a book about fundamentals, not the latest fad in physical computing (ie. Arduino).

The authors even have a cool website (admittedly it was last updated in 1999) with a list of unusual uses of The Book (note proper capitalization).

There are rumors of a third edition to be released in 2010.

Join the resistance.