Head Coach of Public Invention (@pubinvention). Public Inventor. Esperanto speaker. Free-libre open source software, hardware, inventions. He/him.
Joined September 2014
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20 Dec 2024
Here is the video of last night's Inventor Gathering, entitled "Imagine you are a young Tony Stark..." youtu.be/dZfNLWPcgNU
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19 Dec 2024
In two hours I will be giving a free talk that invites you to imagine that you are Tony Stark (or Your Favorite Genius). It is really about making embedded systems: eventbrite.com/e/public-inve…
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22 Nov 2024
In 10 minutes, at 8:00 PM Central, Bert Rothenbach and I will talk about "The Crisis in Universities and What to Do about It": eventbrite.com/e/public-inve…
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13 Oct 2024
Salve magistra @SaturaLanx_Lat! A question in honor of your birthday, Ms. Regini: What can beginning Latin speakers due to recover/breath live into old texts which are not available in translation, or have not been translated in more than 200 years? Possibly the answer is:
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13 Oct 2024
nothing. It may be that translation, which in highest quality requires a mastery of the target and source languages, cannot be undertaken by beginners without hubris. But possibly there is some intermediate project? The creation of detailed summaries?
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20 Sep 2024
I'll be leading a conversation on #silviculture and #opensource in about 20 minutes, even though I am not an expert; but I do have some thoughts: eventbrite.com/e/public-inve…
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20 Jul 2024
Thursday night we had an interesting Inventors' Gathering on the subject of the Beauty of Computer Programming: youtu.be/JAQI3JtWK9o
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19 Jul 2024
In 15 minutes I will speaking on the "Mind Blowing Beauty of Computer Programming". I cannot hope to do it justice, but I feel it is an important topic. eventbrite.com/e/public-inve…
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13 Jul 2024
Possibly I am just not very bright, but it has been a great struggle to produce a theory explaining it. This is a one-way valve that has NO solid moving parts---it consists only of ferrofluid, a shaped chamber, and a magnet. The economic value is in the possibility...
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13 Jul 2024
...of manufacturing it at a tiny scale on a microchip for either cooling or lab-on-a-chip applications. But of course everything that @pubinvention does is free-libre open source. This is a gift given freely to the world, the best and least appreciated kind.
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13 Jul 2024
Last night with @joe_hershberger we had a great success with our passive ferrofluid check valve invention: first time consistently have a collapse pressure 10 times higher than the cracking pressure. Go here for more: github.com/PubInv/ferrofluid…
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13 Jul 2024
We have been working on this for more than 2 years, but Joe has been helping me for 6 months. Scientific/engineering research is often frustrating. Although everything is subjective, I think is a true "invention"---not only novel, but perhaps surprising that it is even possible.
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30 May 2024
Dorotea Gucciardo of @Glia_Intl, who is working in Rafah, gives her account of Sunday's tent massacre and explains how Israel has wrecked the ability of healthcare workers to respond to these catastrophic attacks
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2 Apr 2024
It's not if, but when. Will we be ready?
Join us for a High Stakes Conversation on #pandemic preparedness & #OxygenAccess
30 April - register 👉shorturl.at/pEFI7
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22 Mar 2024
Our free virtual Gala with Dale Dougherty is happening in an hour; click on the image to get a free EventBrite ticket.
21 Mar 2024
In just an hour and a half, at 8:00 Central, the free online Public Invention annual awards cermeony and gala featuring Dale Dougherty of @make will begin. Learn about Public Invention's projects and help us honor our award winners! eventbrite.com/e/gala-2023-a…
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19 Mar 2024
Hey, this is a reminder that Public Invention is having its free, virtual Gala with Dale Dougherty, founder of Maker Faire and Make magazine as guest speaker. This is Thursday at 8:00 Central Daylight Time.
11 Mar 2024
Please join us for our free, virtual, annual Gala and Awards Ceremony, featuring Dale Dougherty as a guest speaker: eventbrite.com/e/gala-2023-a…
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11 Mar 2024
I hope you can join Public Invention in honoring it volunteers of 2023 and hearing form Dale Dougherty!
11 Mar 2024
Please join us for our free, virtual, annual Gala and Awards Ceremony, featuring Dale Dougherty as a guest speaker: eventbrite.com/e/gala-2023-a…
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1 Dec 2023
Along with @ChristinaOSMS and @jaquavictoria I've written an essay about our new, free, means of tracking anything, but in particular the beautiful things made by #Makers. This is really important, please share: pubinv.org/2023/11/30/track-…
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7 Aug 2023
Hey, friends, there are only 2 days left in our crowdfunding for a portable incubator! We have raised $1200 out of the $2000 we need, but if we don't make it, we will lose it all! If ever you wanted to donate to a progressive tech 501c3, now is the time! experiment.com/projects/tote…
19 Jul 2023
Only 21 days left in our #crowdfundingcampaign shorturl.at/eySY4 for a portable incubator that fits in a tote! Help us reach our #PublicInfrastructure goal to design a PCB & field test 5 units for anyone to use. #HumanitarianEngineering #LifeScience @openteamsinc
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16 Aug 2023
We were successful! Thanks to all our contributors! I promise we won't let you down---the only higher priority for Public Invention is our work for NASA.
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