Tag: news
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In praise of open source hardware
This year, I plan to spend more time documenting the work I do that is accelerated by the use of open-source resources. To kick off that effort, I’ll describe a small project I finished this week. 3D-printing and open source hardware is eating the world. I don’t know who Sleighbells64 is, and given that their…
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Are good things still happening?
Some excitement, past and future. From UNSW, new research: quantifying the urban heat island effect in cities like Sydney and Kolkata. Community Earth System Model 3: Incoming update to the CESM series of open-source planetary physics simulators, targeted for this summer. Potentially featuring better clouds. Upcoming NASA science missions: Including Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1…