Making sense of the OP-Z guide
Three pages of quick reference details that you can print, fold up and keep with your OP-Z so you can play with it without hooking it up to a screen. Plus some useful links. »
PO-33 K.O! sampler quickstart
There's more to it, but I've seen people get intimidated by all the buttons alone. This should simplify the main logic of the PO-33 interface as well as that of all the other pocket operators. If you're way beyond this, here's the most comprehensive guide I've found for the PO-33, »
Control Voltage in plain English (draft)
Explaining CV like I'm five, with some oplab and Volca Modular examples. »
Making sense of the oplab module
cheatsheets for the oplab module (for Teenage Engineering's OP-Z synth) »
RainbowEdit: Color for words
RainbowEdit is a web-based text editor that lets you selectively color groups of words. »
Electricity for fun (draft)
An attempt to explain a kind of fast-and-loose McGyver-like understanding of electricity. »
Thoughts on time
We divide the day into 12, and put the stopping points at noon and midnight. Now that our watches have screens, is there a better way? »
Talk: Coming up with new things
A talk I gave at Thingscon 2015 about how to come up with new hardware product ideas, and avoid bad ones. Also intro to KnowCards, a tool I made to make this easier. Talk on New Things at Thingscon 2015 Tina Aspiala - New Things from ThingsCon Ams Slides of »
Infographic snack: Shared awareness
Made this in my late twenties based on no hard statistics, just trends in my own family, as a rough way of exploring the best overlap of intergenerational conversation between equals. »