thanks
... to the following people who have helped me so much in learning all this technological stuff and for giving me the courage to dive in...
all in reverse chronological
PmWiki & PHP friends
Ryan O'Toole for introducing me to PmWiki at Machine Project in Jan/Feb 2008.
Patrick Michaud for the wonderful PmWiki software and online support.
Peters Bowers, HansB, and all the rest of the PmWiki community for their patient support and sage advice.
Chris Bassett
A fine gentleman, and the first person I met at Calarts on Orientation Day, who helped me immensely as I began treking through the PHP wilderness...
Electronics
Mark Allen
I first met Mark at a LA Hacker's Club meeting at C-Level he was hosting during my first weekend in Los Angeles. Then, during the Summer of 2004 I landed the first internship post at Machine Project where I hung out and learnt all sorts of wonderful things, like how easy PICs are, how annoying the Basic Stamp sound chip can be to use, and more. I also leapt into the world of simple hacker tools and components, like voltage regulators, molex connectors and crimpers, hot glue gun basics, and that lovely, lovely tool called the dremel... Perhaps most importantly I learned a heck of a lot about debugging. Oh, and I also got to help out with a medieval battle reenactment by Brody Condon, and a mechanical bull-riding event led by Jessica Hutchins...
Brian Crabtree
He is an electronics and software engineering wunderkind and an advice-man extraordinaire. He has graciously answered many of my somewhat random questions about electronics, PICs, compilers, etc. Check out his last amazing project, the monome.
David Rosenboom
I had an amazing time working with David for the entirety of my 1st year at Calarts. Besides being the Dean of the music school, I quickly learned that he is in fact a pioneering composer of biofeedback music and he graciously helped me design and construct from scratch my very own EEG/ECG device that actually works!! I learned all about circuit design, op amps, oscilloscopes, etc. We were also aided at the very end by Ron Kuivila who clued us in on how to get these low-frequency signals past the ADC of my sound card (trickier than you would think).
Douglas Repetto
I met Douglas when he came to Atlanta to be in a sound sculpture show I put together, L'Objet Sonore. He's the one who, over pizza and a beer, finally convinced me to jump on in and tackle the Basic Stamp. Afterwards he was very kind to also provide some long distance advice on basic electronics construction.
Margot Jacobs
The first one to tell me about microcontrollers and how easy they are to use! She also told me how to make a respiration sensor!
My first Code-Curious Encounters
Doug Goodwin
A very friendly fellow-IM'er who gave me a bunch of advice with regard to some web, unix and open source basics.
Tom Erbe
Mr. Erbe of SoundHack fame, he gave me much insight into Unix basics and writing plugins in C for sound applications like SuperCollider. I think he was annoyed sometimes by the continuous barrage of random email queries I sent, but he answered each and every one of them to the C.
The SuperCollider Users List
An amazing resource. Ask, ask away...
Robert Scott Thompson
A great teacher and composer, he introduced me to Csound and hence the possibility of using the computer for more than just writing papers. He also introduced me to the rich history of experimental electronic music.
DIY Inspiration, General & Specific
Marshall Avett
... for his brilliant DIY spirit ...
