Women and Computer Science

Because Ada Lovelace Day is coming up, as well as this New York Times Magazine Article on top of  my mom's birthday coming up, I thought I would do some posts on Ladies and Tech and Computer Science as a whole. Because its (obviously) a subject near and dear to my heart. So a little background on why this is important to me, other than my personal involvement. My mom started her own tech company after leaving IBM in the early 90s, sold it in 2010, and is now the CEO. She basically did the start up thing years before the start-up as a concept was a thing and with no VC funding. So needless to say she is sort of a personal hero of mine.

So expect more on that as we get more into October including highlights of Computer Science when it was seen as women's work (shocker I know) and somewhat related, my favorite Grace Hopper Quote of all time (and no, it's not "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission")

So stay tuned.

My First Wearable Project

Hello all. For all of those who didn't extrapolate from the name, wearable electronics or wearables is the art of making clothing and accessories that have electrical elements. Although there are some really cool things going on with 3D printing and fashion (link here), there is the much more accessible and more interactive aspect of clothing of using microprocessors like the Arduino but making them smaller and able to be sewed into projects two examples of such microprocessors are Arduino's Lilypad and Adafruit's Flora . Now you might be wondering why would you go to the trouble of incorporating microprocessors in clothing. And the answer is because it's awesome.

For Maker Faire I finally put together my first project, which was a scarf that I knitted myself and wired up with Adafruit Neopixels and the Flora. My original plan and what I'm still working on because GPS can be a bit finicky is making it point in the direction of home. I'll post pictures when it's officially done, which should be soon as well as my plans for Halloween. (For Maker Faire I just had it light up because I didn't realize how much of it was outdoors.)