Bill Talks IA at the University of Maryland
Bill Lenoir's lecture to a graduate information architecture class covered 3 cases studies centered around a disorganized data set or process: recipes, animals and limo reservations. There are steps you can take to bring order out of chaos.
Please download his Making Sense of Unstructured Content (pdf, 1.9mb) presentation.
How can I be heard in the social media universe?
The number of options can be overwhelming: FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and blogging, not to mention old school technologies like mailing lists and regular web sites. It's clear that this is not just a passing fad. Many are asking, "How do I make sense of this." Before you dive in, you should take steps to ensure that you consistently generate quality content and deliver it to the right people.
Ten Mile Square can help you execute on this and more with our media focused product planning and development, search engine optimization (SEO) and product operations consulting services.
Check out Bill Lenoir's article -- Six Steps to Get Your Message Heard -- on www.tenmilesquare.com.
CMS Open Source Options
“The marketplace is very fragmented,” said Rick Garvin, managing director at consultancy Ten Mile Square. “If you look at the number of commercial products, the number of open-source products and all the options that are emerging, this tells you that no one has solved the problem perfectly — and the nature of the problem [managing online content] continues to change.”
-- Rick Garvin, Managing Director, Ten Mile Square Technologies, LLC
Practical Microcontroller LED Designs - lessons and gotchas from prototype to production (PDF)
Presented by Alden Hart at Dorkbot DC, November 25, 2008
LED projects are a popular topic these days. This talk covers some microcontroller LED projects Alden has done ranging from at-home projects to manufactured units. The discussion covers the inner workings of the Ten Mile Square lucites, as well as other lighting projects.
Topics include:
- Color theory, transformation and perception as related to LEDs
- LED driving and dimming techniques, multiplexing - and some workarounds to common problems
- PIC16F917 assembly programming, optimization, and tricks.
- Getting results and controlling costs in hardware projects.
See more on this presentation in Make Magazine blog.
Ten Mile Square Lucite Cube Instructions and Information
LED Lightbrick Project - Make #18
This page provides assembly instructions, materials and sources and other resources for the LED Lightbrick project featured in Make Magazine Issue #18.
Resources:
- bill of materials and sources [pdf]
- schematics and board layout [zip]
- lightbrick full instructions [pdf]
- PIC assembly source code [zip]
The lightbrick electronics kit is for sale at the MakerShed. You can also order them for $26.99 + $5.01 shipping = $32 each from lightbrick@tenmilesquare.com
Ten Mile Square Lucite Cube
The Ten Mile Square lucite cube is a small, transparent cube containing 8 microprocessor controlled red/green/blue LEDs. It plays a set of lighting patterns in a slide show that lasts about 20 minutes then repeats. The cube has a tilt switch which can be used to change the patterns and the brightness level.
The cube's hardware and software was designed, developed and manufactured by Ten Mile Square, including all circuit designs, firmware, and mechanical designs. Some of the details of design and construction can be found in our library.
Instructions
Gently insert the power cord into the connector in the base. When powered on the cube will run its slide show. It the LEDs are too bright you can dim them by tipping the cube toward you and holding until the desired brightness is achieved. Tip it away from you to increase brightness. A white flash provides visual feedback when the tip "takes".
All the patterns in the slide show can be selected individually by tipping the cube left or right. The patterns in the cube are:
- slide show
- ten mile square #1 with simple transitions
- ten mile square #2 with fading transitions
- slow and slower color fades
- whack a mole in slo mo
- color wheel #1 with simple transitions
- color wheel #2 with flowing transitions
- ten mile square #3 with complex transitions
- colored spinner
- saturation spinner
- random pastels
- ten mile square #4 with rotating transitions
- white, yellow, green and blue popcorn
- saturation play
- binary counter in black and blue
- binary counter in pastel pink and blue
- binary counter in pastel pink and blue with soft edges
- take five, Dave Brubeck
- landing light strobes, various directions and colors
- crazy flashing fleeting colors
- phasing rotator
- fishbowl commotion
The cube and power supply draws less than 1 watt and should last 10 to 20 years. It can be left on all the time. If you live in Virginia this should cost less than 50 cents per year for electricity.
