The Internet of Pipes

The "cloud" is really just a bunch of computers in someone else's closet, connected by literal pipes and wires.

006 - Maintenance Needed

Not quite broken. A cola machine sits around, waiting to be maintained. Spotted at a movie theater. Someone must have opened it, started to work, and then - inevitable distracted - forgot about it without finishing the work. It was there when the movie started, it was there when the

Roundup 001, February 2020

Tesla tricked into speeding by researchers using electrical tape https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-tricked-into-speeding-by-researchers-using-electrical-tape/ Eisenhower and his ambitious interstate highway system transformed the US into a nation with infrastructure primarily designed around cars and large machinery. As we  roll out more autonomous vehicles and implement machine vision more broadly

Distributed & Weathered Hardware at Scale (LinkNYC Edition)

Public monuments and infrastructure often gain a lovely patina from people touching them over the course of decades and centuries. Digital public infrastructure gets warped hardware, malfunctioning screens, and internal fogging in months.

Adam Savage Tests Boston Dynamic's Spot

Adam Savage made a rickshaw for his Boston Dynamics Spot, and had Spot tow him around while wearing a top hat. Aside from the obvious observation (that this is a silly project), the bloopers at the end of the video provide a little taste for BD’s  technology readiness level