Michael and I just got back from a startup accelerator workshop put on by a company called Straight Shot.  Their motto, “Let’s build companies.” We were given two days to learn from one of the national startup mentors, Shane Reiser, as we were inserted into a 90 day workshop full of promising young startups.  We […]

We received our certification letter today!  In this case it is only for light metering.  Light measurements can vary 1%-90% (or more!) even over a short distance.  Also the angle the sensor is place at can have a dramatic effect on lighting values.  We want to make sure the values we are reading are in […]

Anything you can do, I can do smaller! The name of the game in electronics, is how small can you make it?  Well, we’ve taken the next step in miniaturization with the Arduino Mini Pro. Its a 5V microprocessor that can do everything its big brother the UNO can do but at a third the […]

Just wanted to get a quick post in since we’ve gone off the radar for a few months! No we haven’t gone away or stopped. Quite the opposite!  Here’s a recent snap shot of “the lab”.  Can you spot the Raspberry Pi Zero?   Lately we’ve been noticing that this idea of data and dashboards […]

. “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding.”                  – Hal Varian, chief economist at Google Its interesting to think of that image above as a reference for all the things that will be connected.  Look […]