Working with an IBM fellow, we were able to make the case to work with/invest in TAHMO (http://tahmo.org/) to support their work developing agriculture and science education in underserved parts of the world. As a result we were able to share the weather data they collect to improve the forecast quality for Africa, as well as parts of the Caribbean and Central America. The funding paid for the installation and support of hundreds of weather stations in places that may have not otherwise had them.
Inspired by the fierce post-it note window wars, I decided to build an automatic post-it array, for displaying messages in a window, without resorting to repetitive manual labor. To make what I thought was simple machine, I wandered down a long path that led me to programing Arduinos, Raspberry Pi’s, using sensors, LEDs, and working with a variety of other random electronics. Explorations into making include but are not limited to…