Urban Honking

A 33 minute long mixtape of the very best of the jams I was bumping in the studio at the beginning of the year, much of it stolen from Sarah. A couple really great Portland bands on here. Click the album art for a link to the download. Enjoy. GOODBYE HORSES1. Starfucker – Mike Ptyson2. […]

Everyone who’s ever played with an Arduino has seen the following sketch: It’s the classic physical computing ‘hello world’: blink the onboard LED on and off every 500ms. But how does it really work? How does this code actually translate into the Arduino’s AVR microcontroller sending the right electrical signals to turn the LED on […]

Everyone who’s ever played with an Arduino has seen the following sketch: void setup(){ pinMode(13, OUTPUT); } void loop(){ digitalWrite(13, HIGH); delay(500); digitalWrite(13, LOW); delay(500); } It’s the classic physical computing ‘hello world’: blink the onboard LED on and off every 500ms. But how does it really work? How does this code actually translate into […]

For awhile now, I’ve been very excited about _why’s Bloopsaphone. Written as part of the coming Real Soon Now, new Hackety Hack, Bloopsaphone is a Ruby library for making 8-bit music and sound effects. _why intends it to be used by the kids to enhance their video games and what not. The code’s been available […]

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House Industries just released a new slab serif family– a variant on their immensely popular typeface Neutra. Also out: shirts, totes, blocks, and new pillows! Hotness! — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org […]

One of Japan’s leading graphic designers died last week. Read more about it here. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —