The SudoGlove Gesture Controller, which I initially developed with several other Cornell students a few years ago seems to attract the TV spotlight. I’ve been continuing to develop music synthesis and software control interfaces for the glove since its previous TV debut on the Discovery Channel last April. This video focuses on the flexibility of the system, and potential future implications of the technology. Check out the embedded video below, visit the InsideScience website, or look for it on your local news station this week!

The First Annual Cornell Startup Fair was Star Wars-Themed

Yesterday was Cornell’s first annual startup career fair. Given Cornell’s recent winning of the NYC Tech Campus Bid (with which I was also heavily involved), the startup fair was very well timed. About a year ago, while meeting with some members of Cornell’s Career Services Offices, I was expressing my dismay at the fact that the ordinary career fairs at Cornell are all for huge companies, students must dress up, and you don’t really get the opportunity to connect with the companies you might be interested in working for. So, after a few months of planning by lots of amazing people, we made the startup career fair into a reality! Approximately 40 startup companies (mostly from the NYC area) attended to recruit amazing Cornell talent. During the course of the fair, I managed to simultaneously work as a volunteer and as a recruiter representing MakerBot Industries (I consult for them part time and worked for them last summer). The fair was a huge success, with thousands of students packing the engineering atrium for about 5 hours. Checkout the local news coverage below (I was featured in the piece), and this article from the Cornell Daily Sun (in which I was quoted).

The Replicator with some 3D Prints

I’m very proud to announce the release of the 3rd Generation MakerBot 3D Printer – “The Replicator“. I’ve been working for MakerBot, designing the all-new electronics for the Replicator for several months now, and it’s very exciting to see it finally released. The team that I’ve worked with at MakerBot has been absolutely amazing, and their hard work truly shows.

As always, the machine is completely open source, and all the schematics, firmware, etc, will be available soon for all to enjoy! Once that happens, I’ll be sure to do a follow-up explaining all the electronics, and why they are so amazing (in this humble engineer’s opinion). For now, enjoy a demo of it in action below, and check out all the press it’s been getting!

• Launch Day News
• Press from CES 2012 Day 1
• Press from CES 2012 Day 2
• Press from CES 2012 Day 3

This is one that I’ve been excited about for a long time. When element14 asked me to put together a holiday special, I knew just what to do. This episode is the most technically complex so far; it covers non-inverting op-amp circuits, low-pass envelope detection filters, buffers, power management, and some clever programming. Because of the complexity of the project, fellow Cornell Engineer, Brian Schiffer (whom you might remember from this article where we were both featured) co-hosted this tutorial with me. The end result is pretty spectacular – a chain of 50 LEDs reacting dynamically to music. The twist, however, is that the chain propogates color information from the center, resulting in a temporal visualization of the music. The schematics, programs, and parts list are available for download below:

You can download the files associated with this episode here: Arduino Tutorial 14 Files

Source materials for all my arduino tutorials can be found in my github repository.

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This talk was featured in the Cornell Daily Sun on 10/04/2011
This talk was featured on the Adafruit Blog on 12/21/2011
This talk was added to the Open Source Ecology Wiki on 12/24/2011

Back in October I was invited to speak at Cornell University’s first annual TEDx event. The theme of the evening was “rethinking our society”, so naturally, my talk focused on how open source concepts could be used to re-imagine how our world works. Be sure to check out the video below, and visit my TEDx portfolio page or flickr to see some photos from the talk.

This news was featured in the Ithaca Journal on 12/26/2011
This news was featured in the Cornell Chronicle on 12/22/2011
This news was featured on the Cornell University ECE Website on 12/14/2011
This news was featured on the Amp Hour Podcast on 12/12/2011

National Engineers Week Foundation is a group that works to encourage students to get excited about studying engineering and technology- a cause that I strongly identify with. Their new “College Edition” competition recognizes third-, fourth- and fifth-year engineering students. A single winner is chosen from each of the participating professional engineering organizations. I’m honored to announce that I was selected as the first annual “New College Face of Engineering” for IEEE-USA (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Don’t expect to see my face plastered on any billboards anytime soon, but it’s still exciting to be recognized by such a prestigious organization – I’m proud to call myself a member of IEEE.

Read the press release on the IEEE-USA website, or download a PDF version.

iPad Version (Blog Shown)

This has been in the works for a long time. I started developing this new website design in July (6 months before I launched it), and actually finished most of the design by September. For the last three months, I’ve been filling in a tremendous amount of content for my all new portfolio page. My new portfolio page covers just about every project I’ve ever done and includes links to source materials, news stories, related blog posts, multimedia, and more for each and every entry. I’m really happy with the way it turned out – It even has an entry for the redesign of this very website.

The aspect of my new design that I’m most excited about is the header. It’s actually a functional, open source circuit that I created using Cadsoft Eagle. You can download the source files on github. In addition to having textual links to each page, the buttons and LEDs can also be used for navigation, and the liquid crystal display shows the current page title. Though I haven’t actually created this circuit board in real life (yet), it should work as shown in the header after some simple programming.

Along with this all new desktop version of my site, I also launched both iPad (see photo) and mobile versions. If you visit JeremyBlum.com from your mobile device it should load the mobile version automatically (note: not all blackberries are recognized as mobile devices due to each one having a different user agent).

I hope you enjoy the new design, and I welcome any feedback!

Yes, you heard me right. Atdiy, of the ZombieTech Podcast (I was their guest recently), wrote and recorded a lovely song about me battling zombified, 3D-Printed, PLA plastic. Be sure to give the podcast a quick listen if you haven’t yet – I discuss the tools I would use to survive a Zombie Apocolypse (Hint: they involve 3D-Printers and corn-based PLA plastic). You’ll have to listen to the song for the full experience: