Some part of me can’t wait to return to the office. It sounds strange, yes, but if you consider that my work-from-home desk is in my bedroom, it makes sense. During the weekdays, I spend something like 80% of my day in my bedroom, between sleeping, working, eating during breaks, and playing with radios. Most …
Tag Archives: design
Notice Clotice
I’m not saying I’m a professional thinker or anything, but shouldn’t this notice be somewhere on the outside of the door? If the washer’s running, that door’s locked. If the power’s out, you won’t see the notice under the locked door telling you to wait. Industrial design is hard.
Dead Silent, Dead Battery, Dead Stupid
The 2m section of my Icom IC-706mkII has finally died. Unfortunately, it picked a wrong time to go out: the moment I hit the interstate to head up to the Belton Hamfest. Helluva time to be without a voice, but oh well. Luckily, I had my Baofeng UV-82HP on hand and a connector for the …
Red Light Rover
Million-dollar idea: Assemble a set of 8 highly-directional speaker panels (electrostatic phased array type), with a pair positioned in a right angle at each corner of an intersection, high on the pole. The speakers point down at the heads of pedestrians across the street. Instead of indecipherable beeps to alert pedestrians (specifically blind pedestrians) when …
Glass Door, Propped Open
It is with profound joy that I announce that after so many wasted years of missing the boat, my music site is up, live and functional, and that you can now hear some of my music. About damned time. “Where is it?” you ask? Well, it’s where you would expect to find that great music …