Thirty years ago, I started sharing what I was learning outside of work when blogs were just starting. (I wrote my first blog in Perl before php and WordPress existed.) My initial goal was to capture what I was learning and hopefully be a bit of help to others.
Now, with close to 250 posts and after a career in government and several companies in industry, I’m focused on sharing the cool stuff I learn or build. From work with DARPA, the National Academies, the Air Force Reserves and my job in the defense industry, I have an incredible front-row seat to observe the intersection of tech and the most challenging application areas. I use that insight to experiment and build things. I use this site a chance to share and introduce others to coolest stuff I’m finding. It’s been a virtuous cycle of insight as folks reach out and return the favor. If we are working on something similar, please reach out through post comments or email me at blog@theboohers.org.
Researchers in China are crafting cyborg bees by fitting them with incredibly thin neural implants (article: Design of flight control system for honeybee based on EEG stimulation). The story isn’t that biology replaces electronics; it’s that biology supplies free actuation, sensing, and ultra low power computation that we can piggyback on with just enough silicon […] read more