About on Chris Woodall

Good Omens is a collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman which I listened to as an audiobook.

Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology is retelling of the myths of the Norse God’s focusing mainly on: Thor, Loki, Odin, Freya and Frey.

This is my second time reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions.

Cixin Liu’s last book in the Three Body Problem trilogy, Death’s End, is a break in format from the last two books in the series.

I started making some .gifs to embed in documentation and my notes as I develop Rusty Nail.

I decided to customize my bash prompt.

I completed my first Coursera course, which was “Machine Learning” with Andrew Ng from Stanford University.

For week 7 of the Coursera Machine Learning course we learned about Support Vector Machines (SVM).

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch is an engaging fantasy novel set in the city-state of Camorr, which is inspired by Venice.

A few weeks ago I was setting up multiple embedded systems using the NXP Kinetis K64F12 family of microcontrollers.

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon was recommended to me by Derek Sivers and he also has notes posted which are rather entertaining and boil down some of the content.

Over the last year I have been reading a lot of Stoic philosophy.

I listened to Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph as an audiobook on my way back from a weekend of climbing at the Gunks.

I have been learning Rust lately, which has been an awesome and rewarding experience thus far.

Daniel Kahn’s Seizing The Enigma is the story of the ENIGMA machine, a electro-mechanical cipher system used by the German’s during WWII, and ULTRA the British code breaking effort of the ENIGMA (and other Axis encodings and encipherments).

Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers and Strategies inspects and dissects the topic of Superintelligence.

I listened to The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder as an Audible audio book on my drive from Boston to NYC and back.

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson inspects some interesting topics in nano-technology, tribal societies, and in many ways is a spiritual successor to Snow Crash in that the general structure of the world is similar.

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu was a thought-provoking book which I think really does glimpse into the darkness of civilization, and humanity.

Test Driven Development for Embedded C by James Grenning is a book I heard about through a friend of mine, as well as, through the embedded.fm embedded systems podcast.

The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu was a very refreshing near-future sci-fi novel.

While at BU I had an assignment for a class called EC327 which used a 16-bit RISC processor that the professors called “simplified x86”, also referred to as sx86.

The Artemis Synthesizer is a digital audio synthesizer kit developed in my spare time with help from the BU Electronic Design Facility.

A nice and simple hack for attaching things onto bikes without dropping a ton of money.

The TTT is a piece of test equipment design for CMS through the BU Electronic Design Facility (EDF).

This Monophonic Analog Synthesizer was designed by Christopher Woodall and Benjamin Havey.

The Laser Turret uses a webcam to track objects and then shoots a laser in the direction of the tracked object.

Firestarter v1 was designed to open a pyro valve, preheat the fuel grain, and monitor the combustion chamber and N2O tank pressures for the BU Rocket Propulsion Group’s MkIII hybrid rocket engine.

Have you ever wanted to Connect Four red or blue disks on a yellow background?

Nomis is a Simon-like memory game for the ATTiny85, which uses the ATTiny85.