Explorable explanations
A collection of links to explorable explanations elsewhere.
Old school Pocket Operators revisited
Digging deep into the older POs to get the most out of them.
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.
Code for visual people
What makes code hard, and some ideas how to fix it
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.
A tiny story about chess
Chess rules for visual people. And a story.
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