Hither or Dither
Everyone’s heard the fable from the ol’ grey-haired engineer about the time she had to add noise to a system to improve ADC resolution. It seems like these stories are always heavy in the emprise and...
View ArticleCan Apple Bring Home Hardware Manufacturing?
Two big interviews with Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday – one with NBC and another in Bloomberg Businessweek. Cook dropped the announcement that Apple is bringing some manufacturing back to the U.S. It’s...
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The Useful Underbelly of CES
MindTribe’s brave volunteers are back from CES, mostly detoxified, and just about finished digesting that last buffet brunch. Much has already been written about the gradual demise of CES, its...
View ArticleThe Factory Floor Tour
Andrew “bunnie” Huang (of Xbox hacking and Chumby fame) recently completed a four-part blog series about manufacturing in China. It’s a great window on the work that goes into ramping up a factory for...
View ArticleBuilding on Legos
This photo of a retired Lego mold sparked a lively discussion at a recent MT standup. The mold supposedly birthed 120,000,000 bricks over its career – an astronomical output considering that many...
View ArticleFox Tail for Thought: Has Good Design Gone Too Far?
Some of you might be familiar with Chris Bangle. He revolutionized car design in 2001 with the BMW 7 Series (you can thank him for any car designed after that with a crease in the metal–car design the...
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MindTribe Hack Day!
Recently MindTribe held our very first hack day! We took a day off to build a drawing robot inspired by the polargraph. It was an opportunity for us to work together as a company, working on a single...
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MakerBot Replicator 2X Initial Impressions
My personal MakerBot Replicator 2X arrived yesterday! I set it up last night and was printing within about an hour of unboxing it. Here are two test prints of pre-sliced designs that came on the SD...
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Engineers: Are You Killing Collaboration with PowerPoint?
We use PowerPoint on a regular basis. So why did we have this quote on our wall? We agree with the instead of thinking part and hashing things out at the table. We’re not saying PowerPoint is bad....
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Innovative Hardware from a Software Company: How’d Adobe Do It?
You might have heard about Adobe diving into the hardware scene this week with two new product explorations. Mighty is a cloud-connected, pressure-senstive stylus, and Napoleon is a digital ruler and...
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A Wreck To Remember
Many years ago, Mindtribe took apart a Game Boy Advance SP for a Teardown Thursday. And today, instead of just tearing one apart, we’ll rebuild and and repurpose one, giving a once forgotten legacy...
View ArticleNew Interfaces for Musical Expression 2015
In early June of this year (apologies for a much-delayed blog post), Mindtribe helped send me to the 15th annual New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference. NIME is an academic conference...
View ArticleMy Mindtribe Internship
I’m always curious to hear about other people’s internship experiences, so this post will be dedicated to describing my summer internship at Mindtribe. When I arrived on the first day, I was met by my...
View ArticleUsing CFFI to Debug C from Python
Recently I’ve been working on projects that require tools that interoperate between operating systems and languages. In particular I’ve been running on OSX in Python and Objective C while communicating...
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Personal Project: Kegerator Thermostat
I own a kegerator that I made out of a reclaimed dorm fridge that I found when I was still in school. This fridge has been running without fault for a little over 4 years. At least it was…until a...
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Getting Started with Android Sensors
Sensors are the lifeblood of the modern connected hardware revolution, the Internet of Things. We collect data about the world around us, push it up to the cloud, and do interesting and useful things...
View ArticleMindtribe Holiday Suggestions 2015
Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days, so why not crowdsource coming up with holiday gift and activities for you and yours? We’d like to share some of our ideas and experiences to help prime your...
View ArticleLeash Debugger: a WiFi-enabled JTAG debug adapter
If you spend a lot of time developing firmware, you’ve probably had to work with a multitude of IDE’s, compilers, debuggers and JTAG/SWD debug adapters. If so, then you’ve probably also had your share...
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