The first time I attempted this feat, I ended up writing 4 songs, 2 of which I spent considerable amount of time re-working after the fact. This time, I only wrote 2 — and only put 1 to music. (Full disclosure: I’d like to share an excuse for why I only got to 2, but that’s silly. Part of sharing is to keep myself honest, share the journey and ditch perfection.)

I’ve been writing nearly ever day since Sept with only 7 missed days (and I’d venture to guess the actual count is less since I sometimes write after midnight, like now). Mornings tend to be free-writes and evenings tend to be processing and recapping my day. The gist of writing a song a day is similar: just write.

Give yourself permission to write something stupid, banal, off the cuff, spontaneous, detailed, meticulous, dopy, serious, whatever-the-heck-you-feel. Part of this is for the muscle and the practice. Part of this is so you have material to whittle at later. What keeps coming back to you in the shower? Or waiting in line at the grocery store?

Another quick parallel: now, when I travel, I give myself permission to take the tourist photos. I know that to get the intimate shots I love, I need to get the other stuff out of my system. Daily writing can be an equivalent of getting the pretty, food and sunset porn photos out of your system so you can catch the out of the ordinary.

Day 3 Song “Harvests Moon”

Writing Prompt: Harvest Moon as the title. Kicker: start in a key most difficult for you.

she harvests moon beams for the seller of suns
harpooning narwhals carrying daymares, bucking sons
of giants carting fireballs across galaxies, across skies
while she drowns quietly, hair spiraling, eyes open wide

Can you see her in your dreams?
Calling quietly, singing longingly?
Can you hear her in the wind?
Calling softly, singing sadly?

Mythical creatures, mystical features
never crease, never cease to teach her
The history of where we were born
The history of the sea swallowed unicorn

I wonder who even listens to lyrics
Is the art of life one of thought or empirics?
Empires were built on less than this idea
From  before all legends, mages and Pangea

Nevertheless, I will sing to she who
Harvests moon beams for the balu
Harpooning narwhals narry to marry,
tusking all who fuss with me
Joisting for attention

Day 5 Song “Amber”

Writing Prompt: “She is hard and hollow like a fallen tree” — use that as a starting point.
Guitar: Capo 2 | Dm, F, hammer on C (middle), E (middle off) / Am, Key of Gm

hard and hollow
like a fallen tree
you and me,
we're hard to follow
like a shooting star
we have far to fall
hard and sallow
turned to amber beads
if truth is what you seek
it's hard to swallow
and it has yet to set me free
...
[am] vulnerability is an [e] ability to ache,
an invitation to pain,
a mystery of mastery,
a frequency of agency,
a healthy rage,
[dm] a wealthy mage
for all the ages
...
hard and hollow
like a fallen tree
you and me, we're
hard to follow,
like a shooting star
we have far to fall.
hard and sallow,
turned to amber beads,
if truth is what you seek
you best not seek it from me.
it's hard to swallow
and it won't set you free

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1. Ask a friend to record you, stealthily. People asked me to go live on Facebook and since I was already dangerously close to puking, I couldn’t handle the thought, let alone plan it. Luckily, a friend thought to record each of my songs, from a phone in his pocket. He then sent me the files, privately. Like a PRO. He let me decide what and if I wanted to share. Had some remote friends and family not asked to listen, I would have kept them private. But if you do share, you can use them as motivation to keep practicing.

2. Listen back. Holy moly this is almost as hard as playing. At least my nausea came back. But once I got over the nerves, I realized I could learn a lot from these by listening for that gap between what the audience heard and what I thought I played. So it’s not about what I’m hearing in the recordings – it’s lining that up against what I remembered. So listen the next day.

3. Avoid soda water and other carbonated beverages several hours beforehand. I was paranoid about burping while singing. It happens at home aaallll the time. But I’m happy to report my first set was burp-free.

4. Strategize your set list. If you can, squeeze in a shout, holler, yell, belting song up front. Or do 20 jumping jacks in the bathroom right before. I did NOT do these things and my first 2 songs were strained and off-key. I was soooo nervous. I did some voice warmups on my ride over to the venue, but that didn’t combat my nerves. When planning my set list, I thought I’d need a few mellow songs to warm up + I picked my weakest songs … Thinking I’d be warming up and folks would still be trickling in. Talk to other musicians and learn more about how they plan a list. I’m definitely going to do that before I try again.

5. Practice your banter at home. Don’t mumble. Don’t race. Silence is OK.

6. Practice with a PA/amp and headphones at home to get used to hearing yourself as others will hear you.

7. Start slower than you think you should. If you’re nervous, you’ll likely race through a song, thinking you paced it perfectly. Or, since I didn’t try it, I’ll practice with a metronome and see if there’s an app that can vibrate to a beat I can try while playing.

Photos from friends, https://www.instagram.com/p/BtiDLDcArB_/?igshid=kyq23e99di6t

Set on SoundCloud, https://soundcloud.com/jewel-mari/sets/live-at-barrio

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Software developers, designers, writers and other creatives reach their maximum productivity in what some call “the zone”, a state of mind others call “flow”. One consistent environmental factor helps everyone maximize their ability to get into and stay in flow: zero distractions.

For folks sharing a physical work space, whether that’s a coworking space or coffee shop, that can be a challenge—so here’s a few tips on how you can protect your zone and maximize your productivity when working anywhere.

First, let me start with a story: I was working from my uncle’s apartment, happily coding away and surely building something awesome. I was younger then, able to tap into my zone on a dime. Without knowing how much time had passed, my uncle’s housemate walked up to me and asked if I was wearing headphones. “No,” I replied. “I must have rapped on the window for a solid 15 minutes trying to get your attention.” He had been locked out on the deck and my uncle had to come home to let him in … I was completely unaware of my surroundings. I could go on about melted water kettles at home, but at some point my ability to drown out the world has waned as I’ve aged.

1. Wear headphones to minimize the risk of audible interruptions.

Some folks prefer quiet and can use noise-cancellation headphones. Others prefer music with no lyrics and others, the bustling noise of a cafe. If you’re in the camp of the latter, coffitivity.com and coding.fm can help give you the noise w/out the risk that you’ll hear your name or an interesting topic float by, pulling you out of flow. A few years ago I created a playlist “enter the code cave” that I can reliably play anytime I need to drown out a world of distractions. With Rdio shutting down, you won’t have long to listen to it. Luckily, there’s several other resources for creating, discovering and sharing playlists including Spotify, Soundcloud and Last.FM. Anything without ads!

2. Pick a space you can occupy for a while.

When you pick a work space that you can stay at for a while, you’re setting yourself up to enjoy a sustained period of flow. There’s nothing worse than finally getting in the zone only to be interrupted by someone asking you to move, or to make a new purchase. Many coworking spaces give you the peace of mind that you can stay put and won’t be interrupted to re-up your food or beverage. If you choose to work from a coffee shop, pick one that’s known to be more mellow (so you can dial in your background noise/music via headphones) and pick a spot away from the door and counter traffic. (Bonus: spots out of the line of traffic are also less prone to theft.)

3. Pick a space that’s comfortable.

There’s nothing worse than getting into the zone only to realize your freezing every time someone opens the door … or sweating through your t-shirt! The minute we think about how uncomfortable we are, the minute we’re out of the flow … and we have to start all over. Posture fits in here, too. Whether we’re at an office, home or another space, ergonomics matters. If you’ll be sitting, make sure you use a comfortable chair and that your table/desk is a comfortable height. If you’ll be standing, make sure you have a place to rest between stands and that your counter/desk doesn’t cause your wrists or neck pain. Laptops are not ergnomically friendly. Luckily, several companies create beautiful and portable laptop stands including the Roost and Green Tuna Design. We’ve collected some of our favorites on a Pinterest board.

Ergonomic insights from ElevationLab

4. Turn off email, Slack and other IM notifications.

One of my favorite compliments I’ve received professionally was “you were the greatest project manager I’ve ever had.” #humblebrag. What made me great? I taught his team how to block out distractions. For the first time in the company’s history and this developer’s history, they had a time protector—someone to prevent last minute meetings from popping up and who wasn’t going to IM them in the middle of a coding session for something I could get later. If you’re thinking, “I wish I could get a time protector,” guess what? You can be your own. Take the time to customize your notifications and turn OFF your email, Slack and other IM notifications when you’re wanting to get into the flow. If you’re a remote manager, encourage your team to do the same. If you use the Pomodoro Technique to break up your working sessions, you can check for alerts in your “in between” time. When working remotely, if your team doesn’t have “zone blocks” already scheduled, make sure you let your team know before you go offline to build their trust that offline doesn’t mean off playing. (Though I hope that you’ll have more time for play with the efficiencies you gain removing distractions.)

5. Use Workfrom

Our environment greatly impacts our productivity. Workfrom is a productivity boosting tool for remote workers to find the perfect place that meets our needs. Not only does it save time in the hunt, it helps reduce the risk of interference when it matters most. Find and filter coffee shops and coworking spaces by noise, busyness, seating options and other ambiance factors. What kind of space are you looking for? Let us know!

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With great freedom (to work when and where you want) comes great responsibility (to pay taxes).

When we decide to work for ourselves or work remotely for another company, we get a bundle of income tax headaches … and a few opportunities to save. We’re suddenly the bell at the ball and everyone’s lined up to dance with us, to take a sliver of our income back to their coffers.

So what can you do to protect your hard-earned money? Here’s 3 tips.

1. Research the tax laws and look for double tax agreements

This one’s for the travelers. For the digital nomads working as they travel across state and national borders, the tax headaches can quickly become migraines.

If you live in a state with no income tax and work as an employee for a company based in a state with income tax, you have to pay taxes to that state. When you’re a citizen of one country, but live in and work in another, you may have to pay taxes to both countries — or you may find that the countries have a double tax agreement.

Personal Finance & Money StackExchange is an international community of folks who’ve either already asked and answered the same questions we have or are ready to answer our questions. With the popularity and accessibility of mobile working on the rise, there are also active communities of globe trotting digital nomads and veteran road warriors happy to share what they’ve learned. Nomad.io and Nomadtopia.com are great examples.

2. TME (tee-ehm-ee)

Now we get to look at a way we can save money. Like shopping, you save by spending. When you start your business, you’re constantly meeting with people — customers, advisers, friends, you name it. And when you work out of coffee shops, those meetings out can add up.

Do yourself a favor and save your receipts. Make a brief scribble including who you met with and the topic of your conversation. I’ve tried almost every app you can think of, from ones that let you scan receipts to ones where you enter your purchases as you make them and ultimately what works best for me is taking a picture of my receipt on my phone and then stashing the receipt in an envelope that I rummage through once a month as I do my bookkeeping.

Why the phone over all those awesome apps? It’s easy. One snap and it’s geocoded and timestamped and easy to browse.

Because I’m not a tax consultant and tax laws vary internationally, I won’t go into what expenses you can write off, but I recommend checking out this simple overview of Meals & Entertainment deductions in the states. And if that bores you to tears, don’t worry about. Save your receipts with handy notes on them and give them to your bookkeeper — they’ll know what to do with them.

3. Estimate your overhead when calculating your rates and assessing an employment offer

When you’re working as a w2 employee in the states, you’re only responsible for paying 1/2 of your federal income taxes because your employer pays the other half. When you’re a freelancer, you’re responsible for paying both halves, so you can expect your taxes to increase.

As a quick starting guide, I recommend figuring out what you want to “take home” in pay and then multiplying that by 1.5. This will be your new baseline — what you need to bill in order to take home what you want. BIG RED WARNING: This is a rough number I’ve used while having to pay county, state and federal taxes in Oregon and I am NOT NOT NOT a tax consultant. Your local and national tax responsibilities will vary, so if you don’t know what your tax liabilities will be, ask around BEFORE you set your rate and salary.

Take out as you earn
Now that you’ve calculated the difference between what you have to charge and what you get to take home, you can save the difference so you have the funds to pay when taxes are due (quarterly and/or annually, depending on where you live). One new company that promises to make this easier is Painless 1099.

They open an online “smart” bank account and automatically withhold taxes from each deposit and send what is safe to spend directly to your personal checking account. Contractors can then simply use their Painless 1099 account info when setting up direct deposit or remote depositing payments received from freelance work.

They’re currently planning a beta launch for early to mid March 2015 and if you’re reading this, you should hurry up and get on their beta list!

Bonus. Find a good tax consultant.

Because it’s important yet redundant, I’m throwing this one in as a bonus. Find a good accountant, tax lawyer or tax preparer. Ask your friends, ask on Facebook, ask on Twitter. There’s a reason you hear this advice repeatedly. Save yourself time and money and prepare your questions before you meet.

Protecting as much of your hard-earned money as possible is the best investment you can make.

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He proceeds to ask me for my license and papers and writes me a ticket. When he first shows me his handheld ticket machine, I see what I estimate to be a $550 fine. But he’s not done. “Is this bad for you?” he asks in his limited English. “Si” I responded. “Muy.” In what poquito Español I can slap together, I explain I have no dinero, o muy poquito dinero. He frowns and runs between his car and mine a few times, each time inquiring more about us and our trip: how long are we renting the car? when do we leave? He’s not happy that we’re leaving mañana. “Ohhhh” lingers as he finds the way to explain in better English than before that we must pay the fine to leave the country. El banco is the best because the rental company will charge us an extra 15% tax. The next time he shows me his handheld ticket machine, the fine reads closer to $650 — the fine went up! He finally prints it and lets us go. As soon as I’m back on the road, 2 cars pass me on the double yellow and my passenger waves her fist out the window at the cop who is sadly unaware of the salute being given to him.

At this point, we’re 1/2 hour behind schedule and hit Guapiles after sunset. That’s when the roads start to bend frequently, we begin the real ascent when the fog descends … and I look for the white lines to guide me only to find that the blacktop road blends into a black jungle. Why is white paint a scarcity here? White-knuckled and determined, I fixate on my guide vehicles. When I lose one, I speed up or slow down to get another. Luckily, I’m only without one for an anxious cinco minutos … and they are the longest minutes of my trip and my life, which I’m incredibly aware can end at any moment. And no, I cannot pull over. I see no place to pull off the road where we won’t sink into or be swallowed by jungle or fall off a cliff.

After getting caught misbehaving, I’m more paranoid than ever about making any traffic violations, so I avoid u-turns and speeding and drive straight to our AirBnB, skipping all sodas and pulparias. I’m looking forward to meeting our host and getting his advice on my infraction. I’ve exhausted all options for how I can possibly round up $650 overnight on credit and get it transferred to a debit/credit card I have on my possession to pay the fine should I have to leave Costa Rica. Sadly, I’m not sure if any of what I’ve thought through is possible, so I’m hoping to hear that I can leave and deal with it later. After I’m safely out of paradise.

I’m ready to trust our AirBnB host because he’s from the US and has written a guidebook for Costa Rica, after having lived here for 20 years. Or so that’s what he says on the internet. He chuckles. “He was trying to get a bribe. You’ll be fine.” We decide it’s worth trying to leave without paying the ticket and to follow up on it later — at an indefinite time in the future when I have access to such money and want to return to Costa Rica.

We of course can’t go to bed without doing more research, research I wish I’d done before renting a car.

Lessons learned about driving in Costa Rica

1. Use Waze (more above)
2. Don’t attempt to drive through or over the mountains after night fall (more above)
3. Fines are set by the policemen, vary widely, and make up the policemen’s monthly salaries
4. Costa Rica traffic fines are the highest in the world (We suspect this is one reason so many Ticos ride bikes, walk and go without cars — as there’s little way they’d be able to afford the fines.)
5. It’s cheaper to get a DUI than a speeding ticket
6. Costa Rican police look for and pull over gringos, suspecting big pockets and ability to bribe with big $ bills

I suspect that the reason the policeman asked me when we were leaving Costa Rica was that it would take time for the ticket to be processed in their national system, thus alerting the car rental agency and the airport. He impressed upon me the urgency in having to deal w/the ticket since I couldn’t leave the country without paying. Seeing as how I got the ticket on our last full day in the country, I can neither confirm nor deny his allegations. What I can confirm is that I was able to leave without settling the bill in Costa Rica.

As we were sitting on our plane, taxiing on the runway waiting for takeoff, we spotted an iguana. He was enjoying the heat of the concrete and did several, rapid “perk ups” when he saw us, clearly celebrating our adventures and escape.

an iguana bids us farewell in Costa Rica

Pura vida!

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The opportunity sprang up late (thanks to a post on PDX Startups Switchboard by Meet the Founder’s founder, Kevin Bastien) so we started organizing the same week of the event. Two of those days we were in Seattle for Startup Week, so we were was also limited on the amount of time we had to organize. I started our hunt by calling two, local coworking spaces. They were incredibly helpful, though we ultimately couldn’t arrange a “drop-in” event on such short notice. Had one of us been a monthly member and had weekend access, it’s more likely we could have pulled it off. However, both places also required a rental fee and we couldn’t work out a sponsorship deal in our short amount of time.

So we moved onto looking at the more popular cafes we’ve worked from in our weekly meetups and began filtering on my list of criteria:

1. large group space and ability to break into smaller groups
2. reliable WiFi
3. a variety of food and drink options
4. a variety of seating for folks who can’t sit in one chair all day
5. open later on Saturday
6. free parking, bike parking and accessible from metro transit

This led us to Ford Food & Drink. They allowed us to make a free reservation for their large, group table set in the back of their space. I initially thought we’d only be there for 4-6 hours before folks wanted to migrate, but most of us stayed until closing—between 9-10pm. (I checked in with the staff at mid-day to get a sense if we were welcome to stay and they were very supportive of us staying on.)

Their back space was perfect, as we were able to have a home base that was out of the way of the transient traffic staying for brunch, lunch, snacks, coffee and happy hour. We ran a tab, making it easy for our group to stay fueled and save the establishment on individual credit card fees. At the end of the night when we closed our tab, we saw that we spent as much on everyone’s food and drink as we would have renting a space — so our budget was happy. For folks who didn’t want to stop at 10pm, they could walk a few blocks to Southeast Grind, Portland’s only 24hour coffee shop.

We all agreed to meet back up at Bare Bones cafe the following morning to regroup and submit our team projects. We picked Bare Bones for its brunch, access to power, reliable WiFi, free parking and central location. After some food, coffee and a round of mimosas for all, we found once again that the money we spent was on par with what we’d have had to spend on renting a dedicated space.

One of my personal highlights of hosting the hackathon in cafes was the poetry reading I got to code through. It was a lovely change of pace from the sound of typing and a great shift in energy as the space filled up with folks sharing their passions, ideas and stories. Creativity is contagious — a lovely benefit to sharing spaces.

Check out what the teams all made!

View more photos shared in our Facebook group.

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Sadly, code school was so demanding of Faye’s time that between being on the computer and being on the computer, she had little time for sleep and no time for being crafty in the kitchen. But last year’s gifts have not gone forgotten.

Flash forward 9 months to this past weekend, and in the spirit of GSTD, I finally decided to give the soap a try. (OK, it was prompted by an impromptu doll-cleanup project.) While I wouldn’t count grating a bar of soap as my favorite way to spend 15 minutes, the overall process took less than a half an hour and I wondered why it’d taken so long!^ I’d already had a Nancy’s yogurt container within reach that used to hold detergent from the coop which made for an excellent shaker. The steps were simple:

1. grate soap into Nancy’s yogurt container
2. mix in washing soda & borax
3. put the lid on & shake, preferably to a pop song

Voila! To boot, the soap worked well (though I want to share the proof in a not-related post about the doll).

Ingredients for Laundry Soap Powder:

• 1c Washing Soda – Portland Homestead Supply Store, $3 for 3 pounds.
• 1c Borax – I’ve had this box in the house so long, I don’t remember. I’ll consider it free.
• Grated Natural Handmade Laundry Bar – “From Santa” only $5.5 at Sellwood Soap Company (though there are many cheaper alternatives) – Not into grating? They have a great post about an alternative process requiring some melting & a food processor.

In fact, it worked so well, I decided it was time to bake some bread. Thanks to my last housemate leaving a bread maker -and- a bread maker recipe book, I found a Peasant’s Bread recipe for which I already had all of the ingredients:

• 3 c flour
• 1 c water
• 1 tsp honey (though I ended up putting in closer to 1.5T in an effort to finish the last of the local honey from across the Bridge of the Gods)
• salt to taste & yeast

Since bread calls for mayonnaise and we’d just boiled a dozen eggs for our recent hiking & camping trip with some left over crying to be made into egg salad – I had to round out the evening with some homemade mayo from The Silver Spoon. This time I was patient in letting my 2 eggs come to room temperature and lucky to have some delicious white wine vinegar & saffloa oil on hand. It was the best batch I’d made in a while.

Waking up to fresh bread in the morning, I enjoyed making our lunches more than most Mondays.

While I *was* gearing up to make my next 30 day challenge focused on reading more – I’m spontaneously throwing my hat into the ring for 30 days of homesteading. As for what that means, I’m going to start small and say that means continuing this awesome momentum of fixing the shit that keeps breaking and using what’s already here. It could also mean tracking everything I purchase, though I doubt I’ll be drawing it anytime soon. Whatever it manifests as, I’m going to start small and give myself room to grow.

^ When I asked Faye what took us so long to make the laundry soap, she said she’d looked at it several times and didn’t want to wait all that time. What time? Oh, the time between when you boil it and it’s ready. Boil it? What – What instructions were you reading? Oh, I don’t know. The ones on the bag? I immediately went to Google and started looking at DIY fails. Maybe it was tooo simple to be true. Alas, I found recounts of this powder story, got out of bed, went down 2 flights of stairs into the basement to see just what I’d used (Sellwood Soap Co), browsed their website and finally felt confident that I’d done it right. Phew. 

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What I’ve learned from my past 2 30 day challenges (blogging every day and walking every day) is that I still suck at doing something every day. I didn’t walk 10k+ *every* day. By the second week I cleared 6k every day and I was stoked with my new low. By the third, I cleared 8k and by the last … well, I had used the last drop of consistency in my body. I was back down to my erratic 3k days and I knew I needed something big to keep this month from being a bust. So I sweet talked my girlfriend into a 9 mile hike in the Tillamook forest alongside mushroom hunters and adventure seekers riding off highway vehicles. Thankfully, I more than made up for my last week’s deficit and paid into the future, allowing me to sit here typing while not walking, guilt free.

When I’m not the first pony out of the gate, or playing pacer, I can finish my race. But I need breaks. I’m the sprinter running a marathon. I’m a manic depressive. I’m a vinyl playing on a manual turntable. Or am I the silence between the flips with the songs my break?

Either way, while setting a habit forming goal, I must be careful to:

1. Give myself room to grow: set a daily low below my end average daily goal. I said my goal was 10k steps a day. I entered 6k and later 8k as my daily goal into my Fitbit’s tracker app. And because of that, I got to celebrate hitting a daily goal every day for 7 days for the first time since I started tracking (back in February). And that little win gave me the momentum to keep going when I wanted to take a break.
2. Give myself room to take a break. When my records end, I need to flip ’em! And sometimes I’m in the other room and it takes a while. What’s great is that taking a break from one challenge may mean feeding another. Taking a break from work feeds my family. Taking a break from art feeds my work. Taking a break from family means guilt around the holidays.
3. Keep up with my own velocity and don’t go into debt. Easier done in conjunction with number 1 above, as it’s easier to keep up with a daily goal when that goal starts low. While I started skipping a day or two on the blogging challenge after a week – if I’d had done that out of the gate, I’d have only ever felt behind. Same for my steps.

Now to apply these to my next one and report back. Now to decide between reading and sleeping, I’m off to bed to see which one comes first.

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In 1858 a passionate Frenchman took the first arial photographs known to accessible history. In 1908, a crazy photographer outfitted a crazy adorable pigeon with a tiny camera to share the first set of photos that would show us a ‘birds eye view’ of the world.^{^1}

In 1984 I remember my first airplane flight^{^2} and in 1993 I took the photo with a Minolta 110 that made me fall in love with photography and in 2013 I went to my first PDXNode meet up with an interest to fly a quadcopter. Aside from pruning some office plants and deciding that I’d have to make my very own lawnmower-bot some day, I wanted to control the Parrot AR Drone from Twitter^{^3} and have it post a picture in return. While it was ridiculously easy to get up and running (even without ever having setup or used Node before) with Felixge’s Node AR Drone library, I ran into some blocks that night, most notably:

1. I couldn’t simultaneously connect to the Internet -and- the Drone blocking me from being able to listen to Twitter -and- control my Drone.
2. I couldn’t get the dependent image and video packages installed properly.

A long summer later, a co-worker brought his old AR Drone 1.0 into the office for my hacking pleasure and I was finally able to tackle #1 – and document how you can too, bringing us one step closer to the Twitter Copter Cam.

1. Connecting the Drone to the Internet

To get started, I read up on some excellent tutorials including this one from bimo2700mf on the ARDrone-flyers forums. It would have been 100% perfect as-is if I weren’t stuck with an Airport which does not give one the luxury of setting the router’s own, internal IP address. After reading up on some “ipconfig” magic, I modified his instructions:

1. Connect to the AR Drone's default wifi network.

2. # telnet 192.168.1.1 (the default IP address)

3. # iwconfig ath0 mode managed essid SSIDNAME; ifconfig ath0  inet 10.0.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0; route add default gw 10.0.1.1;

This assumes that my gateway IP is 10.0.1.1 and that 10.0.1.2 is not yet taken. Since the latest versions of Airport manager don’t give you a nice way to view connected devices, their Mac Addresses and IP addresses, I downloaded a FREE iPhone app called “Fing” that I can use on any network I’m on. Nifty! Other Airport options include 192.168.1.1 and 127.13.0.1 – so be sure to check your config before you try this at home.

 

This will also prevent your Drone from responding to other apps that require it to be set at 192.168.1.1. If you’re trying to build a better Twitter Copter Cam, then this is not a big deal.

4. Connect to your WiFi network. Ping 10.0.1.2 for fun and you'll see it respond. If it doesn't, you did something wrong.

5. Save this configuration on the AR Drone following bim02700mf's instructions. If you skip these steps, then you will have to repeat steps 1-4 EVERY TIME you crash your drone and have to power down/power up to get it glowing green again.

ADD ON: How to save the config file on your AR Drone
A simple way to create file /data/ap.sh directly on AR.Drone:

Inside the Telnet window (step #2 above):

# cat > /data/ap.sh

 

Then enter the same content from step #3 above replacing “;” with line breaks and end with Ctrl-D (press key “Ctrl” with letter “D”)

 

Code:
iwconfig ath0 mode managed essid SSIDNAME
ifconfig ath0  inet 10.0.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 10.0.1.1

 

You can check the contents in file /data/ap.sh:
# cat /data/ap.sh

 

Change the file runable:
# chmod 755 /data/ap.sh

 

To run it:
# /data/ap.sh

That’s it!^{^4} Now all I had to do was update my local working copy of ARDrone module, dig up the Twitter script I started on on that magical NodePDX hack night, and edit my client settings to connect to my drone via its new IP address (10.0.1.2). For the interested, you can check out the script in this Gist. (Notice that the inline console logging spits out the tweeter’s handle, so we can tweet a picture back when we’re ready!)

Now, to tell my drone to do a quick dance, all I had to do was tweet from any account, anything with “tinyurl.com/gogonc” in my status (as in “go go node copter”). One can edit the script to listen for anything and I’d like to have a few different command options once I master image capture. Any ideas? Share ’em now and they may just make version 1.0!

Potential FAQ: why not use your computer’s wifi to connect to the drone and tether via USB or bluetooth with your mobile phone? Because I couldn’t get that approach to work. Using a MacOSx MacBookPro I either wasn’t skilled enough or the solution doesn’t exist to force an application to sometimes use one connection and other times use another. I won’t even bore you with the details of what I tried to make this work. Also, I read somewhere that connecting the drone itself to a wifi connection increases its range and I’m positive I’ll want that as soon as I take this baby outside.

As for the next hurdle:

2. Capturing and Sharing Images from the Drone

I ran into a block after upgrading ARDrone module to get the latest bug fixes only to run into an error that seems related to my using an old AR Drone and not the 2.0 version. Seeing as how this has already taken me longer to document than to initially program, I’m glad I decided to call it a night. I may try a simulator next, or working with the underlying image capture functionality in the abstract or find a 2.0 drone to borrow. Or I may jump into writing my own blackbox, having the copter write a flight log to a Google Spreadsheet next. Will mostly depend on what nights I find myself free … and who wants to join in on the adventure.

^1 (It’s taking a lot of energy to stop browsing for more history including Cooper the Cat whose had his own gallery shows, film and coffee table book and focus on this post long enough to get it shared.)

^2 I was in kindergarten and finally old enough to fly alone. (I was in charge of taking care of my brother.) Those were the days parents could walk us to the gates and the stewardesses would give us wings and the other passengers would grow to despise being on the same flight as my brother and I bickered so loudly and persistently that the stewardesses would end up separating us.

^3 After spontaneously volunteering to lead a BarCamp session a short while prior, I’d begun using Temboo (as I was and still am working there) and slightly obsessed with using the APIs in our library to make stuff without really having to go back into development (for reasons that blow even these rambling footnotes out of scope). If you’re wondering “why no Temboo” in the referenced gist code snippets, it’s because we didn’t have support for the Twitter Streaming API at that time. Once I get through step #2 and get images working, I plan on updating this to take advantage of Temboo’s library so that the drone can tweet a picture back.

^4 If you’re thinking, “what about my network that’s password protected”? Read up on ipconfig & ath0 protocol. When I need to, I’m going to start with this handy tutorial on using ipconfig to setup a network with ath0.

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This brief adventure came about by a post on Twitter by the always interesting @furtivecode. I had long been a fan of ASCII Art, from the days when I had to learn how to type on (gasp) a typewriter from a teacher who John Hamm studied and styled himself after to be Don Draper.* So of course I was both shocked and immediately interested in playing with ANSI.

And this is what happened a short hour later. Some photographic “studies” using a modern day color palette, the original ANSI palette, variety of figures and contrasts. Can you match them up to the originals? There will be more!

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