Technologist championing engineering and science innovation and education, mentoring teams and leading Fixit Clinics
Berkeley, California, USA
Joined June 2007
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Twitter HQ on Market St. in SF today; the birds and letters are completely removed from the white vertical sign at the corner and now there's a big X on the roof.
We hold Fixit Clinics at Harvard and other Universities to encourage “Design for Durability” (DFD), i.e. incorporate durability, maintainability, serviceability for the coming sustainable circular economy.
At the Harvard Fix-it Clinic, students, staff, and members of the public bring stopped clocks, staticky headphones, clogged vacuum cleaners, and more to eager community members and library staff who work to repair the items, while teaching the owners: hrvd.me/FixIt4665t
ALT A woman holds a pair of pants that need a pocket repair while a man looks on. A sewing machine is on a table behind them.
ALT Two people work on a broken umbrella
ALT Two people work on a pink radio
As the Brits might say: "Bloody Brilliant"
When they said try working from home I didn’t realise they’d expect me to do the music too @BBCNews @BBCNWT #BBCNewsTheme 🥁 #workingfromhome
Jurassic Pete @ University of California Museum of Paleontology instagram.com/p/B05KMoNHjiNI…
Participants in TOMODACHI Summer SoftBank Leadership Program @ UC Berkeley instagram.com/p/B05IpJdHQEJo…
10M+ driving miles by Waymo; Phoenix is an easier city than most to test self-driving ...“because It’s really hot so there are no pedestrians.” (audience laughter)
Machine vision error rates are now better than humans, although it’s somewhat skewed because it’s sometimes esoteric knowledge (e.g. hyper-specific ID of breeds of dogs)
What if we’re in the last throes of the nation-state era? Do corporations replace nation states and, if yes are corporations ready to step into the responsibilities we have traditionally assigned to government? #CRBbeyond15
At what point is the churn of consumption that floats capitalism antithetical to sustainability? Given how we currently practice capitalism; what if no business model can be environmentally sustainable? #CRBbeyond15
An interesting idea to use controlled fracturing to build electronics: news.mit.edu/2018/how-mass-p…
Peter Mui retweeted
Featured on @RestartProject podcast: therestartproject.org/podcas… #repair #fixit #dit #stem #dfm #repaircafe #disposableculture #ZeroWaste – at Berkeley, CA
Here's the youtube link to the same PBS NewsHour segment: youtu.be/DarcSxamvE8 xitter.cf/FixitClinic/status/876…
Fixit Clinic featured tonight on the PBS Newshour: pbs.org/newshour/videos/#219… #repair #fixit #dit #stem #dfm #repaircafe
We're holding more @FixitClinics at colleges and universities to teach design and engineering for durability and serviceability. xitter.cf/FixitClinic/status/858…
Judging from the sign ups this looks to be among our biggest events. xitter.cf/FixitClinic/status/847…
Come fix stuff alongside your Fremont neighbors! #fixit #repair #dit #stem #circulareconomy #disposableculture #ZeroWaste #repaircafe xitter.cf/Fremont_CA/status/8465…
Celebrating repair is an important aspect of @FixitClinic #fixit #repair #dit #stem #circulareconomy xitter.cf/FixitClinic/status/752…
New post on iFixit.org: our philosophy of celebrating repair #fixit #repair #dit #stem xitter.cf/iFixit/status/75257654…