The Never Ending Quest To Build Cool Stuff
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John Polacek shares ideas and examples of cool tech projects including 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, robot soccer, synthetic biology, biohacking, hover bikes, jQuery, responsive design, APIs, and more. He encourages building prototypes to increase luck by doing and telling others. His focus is on fun and silly projects and he asks the reader to share what cool stuff they are working on.
The Never Ending Quest To Build Cool Stuff
- 2. Hi John Polacek Senior Developer Draftfcb Chicago
- 4. An Idea Alone is not cool stuff
- 5. “Go to Subway with an idea and see if they will give you a sandwich.” Jason Fried Founder of 37signals
- 6. The magic is not the idea. It is what you do with it.
- 7. Let’s Look At Some Cool Stuff
- 10. 3D Printing Face scanned using a nextengine scanner – nextengine.com printed on a z-corp Spectrum Z 510 3D printer – zcorp.com/en/home.aspx
- 11. 3D Printing
- 12. Makerbot Replicator Printrbot $1749 $799
- 13. Raspberry Pi Arduino $25 ~$50
- 14. Robot Soccer
- 15. Synthetic Biology Biohacking 700 TB of Data 700 x 1 Gram of DNA
- 16. Cool Kids Stuff
- 18. Holy Shit It’s a goddamn Hover Bike.
- 19. Cool Web Stuff That’s more my thing.
- 21. jQuery, Websockets, geolocation, Responsive Web Design, Mobile First, Content First, Style Tiles, Web Apps, Github, Single Page Sites, APIs, REST, Touch, Canvas, WebGL, SVG, Raphael, Infographics, JSON, mustache, CSS Transforms, NoSQL, Cloud DB, webfonts, AMD, pub/sub, getUserMedia, node.js, clojure, data visualization, localStorage, three.js, d3, Meteor, Modernizr, Chrome Dev Tools, Angular, Twitter Bootstrap, Video.js, impress.js, Heroku, AWS
- 22. + APIs Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube, Maps, LinkedIn, Klout, Flickr, Yelp, Foursquare, Dropbox, Stripe, Vimeo, Yammer, ESPN, Census Bureau, Bing, bit.ly, Tumblr, duckduckgo
- 23. I’m not..
- 25. Grant Thomas Polacek December 6, 2011
- 30. If you build it (and talk about it) They will come.
- 38. Building Cool Stuff Tactics For Success
- 41. Really Big Ideas? Break them down into smaller ideas
- 42. Follow Your Whims Tired of it? Drop it. Build the next cool thing.
- 44. “The key to being a good developer is to be really good at Google.” - Abraham Lincoln
- 45. Read
- 46. Listen
- 47. L00k
- 48. Learn
- 49. Subscribe
- 50. Aggregate
- 51. Collect
- 52. Plan
- 53. Share
- 54. Chicago
- 55. Increase Your Luck Surface Area Do and Tell
- 56. Be Bolder Than You Want To Be
- 57. Have A Focus Figure out what stuff really grabs your attention
- 58. My Focus Fun and a little silly.
- 60. Thanks! johnpolacek.com/prototype @johnpolacek johnpolacek.github.com