Departamento de Procrastinación

Chris Glass.

Sun, 27 May 2012 18:12:44 -0700

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:09:03 -0700

Memory Dump 20120414

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:23:00 -0700

The content on this tumblelog has been a trickle since last year. I’ve been busy with my work at 3D Robotics, pushing out products and getting a few promotions along the way. It pays off to be employee #7 at an open-source electronics company, which is now big enough that I forget people’s names. The 18 months I have worked there have been incredible; I’ve met a lot of great people and learned to not get intimidated when I’m assigned to work with Ph.Ds and people whose biographies are on Wikipedia.

I’ve traveled to more places because of this job than I have in my entire life, the highlight being a week spent in Shenzhen, China, hunting potential suppliers and manufacturers. Whoever tells you that you only need to know english to make your way around the world is a liar.

I’ve wanted to start a more technical blog to share some things I’ve learned from being part of the open-source hardware community, i.e. what goes on behind the scenes of a Kickstarter project pitching a hardware product, or what it’s like to launch a product competing directly with something from Digi International and having no clue about what you’re doing, or the things you learn about letting customers pre-order your product and then having trouble fulfilling the orders. It’s not all fun and Instagram photos of the office cat.

I also want to document some of my processes. As my Twitter bio states, I do “engineering” and “product photography”. I’m not particularly good at either of those things but learning is part of the job. I joined the company just months after getting my B.S. in electrical engineering, and EE is a massive field. I seem to have a knack for printed circuit design, which is part physics, part mechanical / industrial engineering, and part aesthetics. I had designed exactly one printed circuit while in school. So yes, I’m pretty new at this, but the fact that my designs are shipped around the world, used in quadcopters and small, cheap drones, and that they generate profits for the company, gives me some confidence.

I’ve acquired skel.ly which I might use for the blog mentioned above (probably running Octopress or another static blog generator), or something else. That domain was not cheap so that sort of motivates me to do something with it. I’m also sitting on merkuriana.com which just may end up becoming a music tumblr. As for this tumblr, it will likely stay the same but with a bit more of my bad photography. Owning and not using an expensive camera and a Lightroom license is making me feel guilty.

Also planning on selling rapidcats.com to Facebook in the near future.

Ens.

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:22:10 -0700

Ens.

Tristwood - The New Acid Bath (from Dystopia et Disturbia, 2010)

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:23:49 -0800

Tristwood - The New Acid Bath (from Dystopia et Disturbia, 2010)

Anatomy of a Lego minifigure. (ckck)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:19:05 -0800

Anatomy of a Lego minifigure. (ckck)

fuckyeahtj.

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:27 -0800

fuckyeahtj.

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Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:12:20 -0800

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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:58:52 -0800

Everything Is a Remix: The Matrix

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:54:06 -0700

Everything Is a Remix: The Matrix

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Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:32:01 -0700

Yosigo.

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:33:23 -0700

Yosigo.

Dernière Volonté - Le Mal Que Tu Me Fais (from Immortel, 2011)

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:09:00 -0700

Dernière Volonté - Le Mal Que Tu Me Fais (from Immortel, 2011)

Learning to fly.

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:03:53 -0700

Learning to fly.

Shenzhen, China.

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:44:00 -0700

Shenzhen, China.

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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:26:20 -0700

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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:58:48 -0700

Memory Dump 20110717

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:07:00 -0700

La ultima vez que escribí un memory dump creo que fue cuando estaba viviendo en Ensenada y valiendo gorro en el curso propedeutico del CICESE, hace un año. En ese año han pasado un montón de cosas, la mayoría debidas de alguna manera u otra al tiempo que estuve en Ensenada, principalmente el trabajo que conseguí (me consiguieron) en San Diego y todo lo que vino con eso.

Cuando regresé a Tijuana en Agosto del 2010 no tenía idea de que hacer, pense que solo fui a desperdiciar mi tiempo y el de mis maestros del Tecnológico que me dieron su apoyo. Pasé unos meses buscando trabajo y yendo a entrevistas deprimentes, pensando que podría conseguir un trabajo mientras volvía a intentar entrar al CICESE y mientras me llegaba mi título.

Luego en Octubre esta bonita persona me dijo de una oportunidad en San Diego en la compañía de un conocido, Jordi Muñoz, a quien reconocí de BoingBoing y por ahí. Fui a una “entrevista” muy informal, me pregunto si sabía sobre Arduino y PCBs, y la semana siguiente ya estaba trabajando para él.

Los meses de Octubre hasta ahora pasaron volando, como sucede cuando te gusta lo que haces. Mi tiempo lo paso diseñando circuitos impresos (hardware open-source), prototipeando, programando, fotografiando, coordinando con programadores, y de vez en cuando viajando (San Francisco, Las Vegas, Mojave, y posibles próximos viajes a Colorado y Shenzhen).

He conocido a famosillos del internet, gente de Atmel, Invensense, Google, Wired, Arduino, iFixit, SparkFun, BoingBoing, Scaled Composites y he tocado las naves de Virgin Galactic (badass).

No he tenido tiempo de pensar en seguir estudiando, aunque sí planeo hacerlo no quiero dejar esto y regresar a lo académico en este momento. Primero quiero ver hasta donde llega este viaje.

Does it feel like a trial?

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:26:22 -0700

Does it feel like a trial?

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Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:48:50 -0700