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Ben Collins-Sussman
programmer, Googler, composer, banjo player, book author, public speaker, radio ham, interactive fiction writer, photographer, dad
Occupation: Engineering Manager
Location: Chicago
His ProfilesRankThis is the rank of 'Ben Collins-Sussman' out of all Google+ Profiles.: 3,319 (GenderRankFor the gender 'Men'.: 1,867)
His ProfilesRankThis is the rank of 'Ben Collins-Sussman' out of all Google+ Profiles. in United States: 1,079 (GenderRankFor the gender 'Men'.: 690)
Followers: 17,712
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2013-05-12 01:11:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)
Full size 20m vertical Buddipole on the roof deck... no coils, and 1.5 SWR! Attached the newly finished Rock-Mite and listened to K5UI work a pileup on 7030mhz.
2013-05-10 16:32:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
#hamradio #homebrew #qrp Here's the final Rockmite-40m radio, cased in its budbox. I added a P3-touchpaddle PCB to the inside of the lid, and velcro'd the gold-plated bars to the top of the lid. This is now an (admittedly fixed-frequency) 40m CW tranceiver that fits in my palm, puts out .5 watts, and has an integrated picokeyer and touchpaddle. I can pair it with the tiny 11.5V 1.3Ah lipo battery there, and put it all in my coat pocket. I'll probably put the end-fed 10/20/40m antenna in the other pocket, and try it out in the park!
2013-05-10 00:32:09 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)
Homebrewed ham radio in progress (Rockmite 40m).... busy adding touch sensitive paddle circuit board to the lid.
2013-05-07 03:28:06 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)
Starting to get to that magic point where hearing morse code causes letters to flash before my eyes; I may not need pen and paper anymore.
2013-05-03 01:39:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Excited to be participating in the Indiana QSO Party -- a ham radio contest. This weekend, +Jack Welch +Tymme Laun and I will be roving around different Indiana counties, trying to make as many radio contacts as possible from different locations. Nuthin but backroads and morse code!
2013-04-27 05:13:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)
There is no finer Friday night than sitting with a banjo in your lap, playing folk music with a bunch of hippies.
2013-04-15 03:00:47 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
One of the nylon cords holding up a corner of my backyard horizontal delta-loop finally snapped, so I used the EZ-hang slingshot to throw a new tie-line into the tree. Before resuspending that corner, though, I examined the main balun, and smeared some fresh coax-seal that had worn off the electrical connections. Really, my delta loop is so narrow, it's approaching a dipole! #hamradio
2013-04-13 14:55:10 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
After 3 days of taxing my GPU, I finally earned .01 bitcoin, which is like, a buck. Time to save up for those +1 magic boots?
2013-04-10 21:11:58 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)
Cool. My Raspberry Pi is now mining bitcoins at 0.33 kilohash/sec. It might even generate a dollar before I die.
2013-04-10 14:14:01 (20 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)
About 80% done re-habituating myself to typing 1 space after a period rather than 2. Guess who was raised on mechanical typewriters?
2013-04-08 00:29:24 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Hey folks, what's the canonical way to "listen" to incoming digital audio on Linux? I'd like to do this using the Go language. +Dan Morrill might have an idea, no?
2013-04-07 22:39:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
On garage roof, doing 20m CW with vertical buddistick... Natural 1.5 SWR over whole band! Got nice QRP to QRP QSO from Chicago to Texas, though some Latvian guy was booming.
2013-04-06 21:17:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
Doing some headshots for friends. Learning to use off-camera strobe for different looks!
2013-04-05 17:49:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
I long for the days when people would design things, rather than "architect" them.
2013-04-05 14:25:04 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)
I gotta say, Ebert could write humor like nobody else. :-)
2013-03-31 16:46:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Took these photos on an old Mississippi paddleboat. I feel like +Andrew Plotkin should use them for Hadean Lands. :-)
2013-03-31 15:35:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Still learning how to do professional headshots using off-camera strobe. Things I've learned:
1. Lighting a white dog (when no model is available) is tricky.
2. People seems to like very small depths of field -- f/1.6 for my son below.
3. Reflectors-as-fill-light is an art.
4. I love using the handheld light-meter to measure incident light from the strobe! Saves me so much time: set ISO to 100, shutter to 1/200th sync, and the light-meter tells me exactly what aperture to use!
2013-03-27 22:51:18 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
NN9S/QRP portable, from a hotel overlooking the Mississippi. I stupidly forgot the telescoping 10' tip of my Buddistick, so I had to resort to hanging a 30' long wire out the 7th floor window, straight down. The antenna analyzer shows high swr on every single band, but somehow the kx3's tuner tuned it anyway. I also stupidly forgot part of the wall wart for the radio, so we'll see how long the internal AAs last...
2013-03-24 17:33:21 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
My wife is in the kitchen, sucking up ants with a shop vac.
2013-03-23 23:52:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
Had a huge easter egg party and made vector-plot eggs for all the kids with Egg-bot!
2013-03-23 23:48:23 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)
Behold the Eggbot, plotter of eggs! Its mystery is only exceeded by its power
2013-03-22 15:23:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)
Happiness is a good user review of our book on Amazon:
"I read the book and started applying some of the more promising ideas about three months ago. The project has gone from being about six months behind to about three months behind, and probably half the credit goes to this book. I'd say that this book is worth about half a million dollars to my factory. I'm keeping it."
2013-03-22 03:59:05 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)
Easter is coming. Also, we have discovered off-camera flash.
2013-03-21 18:57:45 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Taking portraits at work today of co-workers, using the new shoot-through umbrella and stand for my flash. Lots of experimentation -- it's tricky to learn to balance ambient vs. flash light!
2013-03-21 15:12:23 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Started reading Strobist. Bought a cheap stand, umbrella, and remote trigger for my flash. This may be a slippery slope.
2013-03-21 15:12:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Started reading Strobist. Bought a cheap stand, umbrella, and remote trigger for my flash. This may be a slippery slope.
2013-03-20 18:24:47 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
+Jack Welch and I just did another release of "Hoosegow", our wild-west interactive fiction game. The newest release 16 contains a few years of important bugfixes. You can play the game instantly at the link below, or visit http://code.google.com/p/hoosegow for downloads, walkthroughs, source code, etc.
2013-03-11 18:00:41 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)
Child Care at Google I/O 2013!
At last year's Women Techmakers event, we asked what we could do to help encourage more women to attend events like Google I/O. I'm excited to announce that in response to that feedback, one of the new things you'll see at I/O this year is fully subsidized – yes, free to attendees – group child care at a location close to Moscone West. We'll be offering child care for all 3 days of the conference, for kids aged 6 weeks to 12 years old, as well as dedicated rooms onsite for nursing mothers.
If you're a parent, and you've been on the fence about whether to attend I/O this year because you have a young child or infant to care for, tell us you're interested by checking the box on child care needs when you register for Google I/O.
Registration opens March 13. For more information, see http://google.com/io
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2013-03-07 21:17:42 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 31 +1s)
I wrote a review on Amazon for a mini bluetooth keyboard, with title "OK for hunt-and-peckers, not good for touch-typists." Amazon auto-rejected the review as obscene.
2013-03-06 23:17:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)
Gregory Kick was tagged in Ben Collins-Sussman's album.
2013-03-06 03:58:26 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)
Ladies and gentlemen, I present my just-soldered Atari Punk Console. Full details about this famous circuit over at http://www.jameco.com/punk
2013-03-04 04:09:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
I'm in the awkward-teen phase of morse code. Too fast for the bunny slopes (~7.110mhz) but too slow for the main drag (~7.040).
2013-02-22 15:11:48 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)
OK, here's my first crystal receiver that's a bit more fancy that the "wind a wire around a bottle" kind that I did with my 13-year old class. Instead of a variable inductor ("tap the bottle coil in different places"), this one has an old-school variable capacitor connected in a true resonant-LC circuit, for improved selectivity. The antenna is also connected via an autotransformer on the right for better isolation. Otherwise, it's the usual simplicity: a germanium diode to rectify AC to DC, a teensy coupling capacitor, and a high impedance earphone. Still no battery required! Also, turns out the copper-foil tape is much easier to use than jumper wires. Who knew?
Maybe I should test it and see if it works. Just need to connect it to an arial and ground. :-)
2013-02-20 14:08:21 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
I think I finally reached a place where I feel safe about my data.
I keep all my photos and video on an external drive, which is two disks in a RAID 1 redundant configuration; if either disk dies, the other still has the data. I then back up this RAID drive to two other portable drives. One I keep on my shelf, and one I keep offsite at my office. :-)
2013-02-14 21:59:42 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 30 +1s)
At Google today, our pastry chef (Chef Pedro Gomez) made a sculpture before our eyes out of white chocolate. Amazing!
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