This week and last, we’ve been working hard to set a budget and optimize the design for the physical object side of the LED grid project. Branden has been developing a list of parts and is starting to lay out the circuit board design (maybe I’ll convince him to do a guest post for that part?). In the…
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LED Grid: working toward a design
I wrote about the origins of my LED project and my first tottering steps toward programming in a previous post. Here, I’d like to talk a bit more about the design part of this project. (That’s way more fun, anyway.) For an electronics project like this, there are two aspects to the design: first, what does the…
LED Grid: To learn a programming language
I stumbled into the design world kind of by accident back in March or April. A flyer mysteriously showed up in my mailbox advertising a seminar on presenting data by Edward Tufte, to be held in April in Boston. It turned out that I had a schedule conflict and couldn’t make the seminar, but it…
Revision of hand lettering
I really enjoyed my previous foray into hand lettering, and think this might be a really fun way to explore typography in a more deliberate way. Since text is such a fundamental part of visual communication, that seems like a good thing. I bought Sean’s course on hand lettering as a way to focus my…
An experiment in hand lettering
As I have started to pay more attention to design, new opportunities have started to crop up everywhere. I was catching up on recent episodes of Good Life Project Radio by Jonathan Fields when I came across an interview with Sean McCabe, an internet entrepreneur and hand letterer. I have always loved words. For a…
Behind on the first day
It’s the first day of a new blog, and I’m already behind! I set this blog up to capture ideas, thoughts, and projects related to my emerging interest in design, and especially data visualization. This has become a new focus for me over the past few months, and I am curious to see where it…