Running the Hackaday ARG
So over the last month I've been very busy helping out Hackaday in preparation for the announcement of The Hackaday Prize. During the lead up to the announcement we wanted to build some suspense at Hackaday so we started releasing a series of space themed puzzles over all over April. Every week we posted a...
Supplyframe at SXSW Interactive 2014
At the beginning of March every year, tech hordes from all over the world flee to Austin in order to spend couple of days at the city-wide circus called South by Southwest. Even though the festival is getting bigger and bigger every year and definitely loosing a bit of it's "cool" it's still worth a...
How To Identify Patterns in Time Series Data: Part I - Discrete Fourier Transform
In many real-world applications, "Signals" are typically recorded and represented as time dependent functions. For example, we can record the daily trading price in the stock market, or measuring the hourly temperature in Los Angeles. In order to extract meaningful characteristics of the data, many different transforms have developed to decompose the data into simpler...
Caveat emptor : Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace
AWS EC2 Reserved Instances sound like a great idea. You spend a lot with EC2, keep instances running for a long time and have predictable workloads throughout the year ? Reserved Instances to the rescue ! You pay a flat reservation fee upfront and reap the benefit of reduced computing cost over time. All sounds...
Making of Datasheet.net Demo Video
No project launch is complete without a making-of video. So here it goes ... Datasheet.net Demo Video - Making of from Supplyframe on Vimeo.
Datasheet.net is live!
Our latest product, Datasheet.net, is now finally available for anyone to use. After a few months in private beta we feel ready to let the world see what we've been playing with. Here's a quote from the going live post on the Datasheet.net blog. We think datasheets suck. Plain and simple this is a format...
Supplyframe at BigDataCamp LA 2013
If you have been following LA tech scene lately - you might have noticed a lot of activity around Hadoop ecosystem & related projects. While it's easy to discredit this as just a reflection of omnipresent buzz around "Big Data" and "Data Science" one can argue that in this environment - it's much more than...
Anatomy of a hack
Last couple of days we have been goofing around with different design ideas for new supplyframe t-shirt and here is what we finally came up with Hope the great W. Shockley will forgive us for canibalising such an awesome hack 🙂
A Visit to Shanghai Hackerspace
On our recent trip to China, we were lucky enough to get the chance to visit one of local Hackerspaces in Shanghai. The place is called Xinchejian and it looks like something straight off William Gibson novel. Tons of cardboard boxes, tiny robots scattered all over the place, art pieces, 3d printers, hydroponics hacks (?) ......
