I thought about entitling this article “How to Play Nintendo 64 on a Philips 7225 C107 Hotel TV,” but I figured this crazy procedure could be generalized for anyone trying to hook up a peripheral device to this particular type of TV.

This past week I decided I was going to figure out how to send text over serial to the 8x8 LED sign my father and I built a few years ago.

Here is a video of me presenting a mobile web application called “want2join.me” that I created with some of my friends at the 2011 PennApps Mobile hackathon.

Every year around the holidays, my dorm, Stouffer College House, puts on a program called Holiday Hobbit. The name is just an attempt to make the program secular. It’s really just Secret Santa for Stouffer residents. The only rule is that you cannot spend more than $10 on the gift.

This post is part of a series of journals I wrote while traveling to Seoul, South Korea to compete in the 2010 World Embedded Software Contest, for which my team’s project won the grand prize.