DorkbotPDX people doing strange things with electricity

Favorite topics:

• Music synthesis, effects and instrument design
• Radio communication (especially software-defined radio)
• Sensors of any variety
• Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Verilog and VHDL
• Compilers and language design (I wish I knew more about functional programming!)
• Python misuse and abuse (Pyrex and Cython, too)
• Signal processing and compression of audio and video
• The joys and pains of running a small business
• Circuit board design and manufacturing

If you're interested in that stuff, I'm happy to offer my opinion. It's worth as much as you paid for it! (A beer, if I'm lucky.)

Stuff you might like, if you like what I like...

• Near Space Ballooning
• HD video downloads of the new MAKE: Television show
• SparkFun Electronics

And, of course, my business, ShareBrained Technology, which sells analog clock kits...

If you're an audiovisual geek, did you know you can obtain the MPEG-2 and H.264 specifications for free?! Yes, by some stroke of madness, you can download ITU, ETSI and ATSC specifications for free! Here are my favorites:

• ITU H.222.0 a.k.a. MPEG-2 systems
• ITU H.262 a.k.a. MPEG-2 video
• ITU H.264
• ATSC A/52B a.k.a. AC-3 audio
• ATSC A/53 a.k.a. US digital broadcast television