Author: Peter Garrity

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Jim Henson’s Fantastic World

Today we went to an exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington. The exhibit was called Jim Henson’s Fantastic World. It’s about the guy who created the Muppets. Unfortunately this was the last...

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Last day of School

At the beginning of school everyone in my English class had these paper strips that we cut to be the same height as us. Here I am now, with my paper strip from the...

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Cory Doctorow Interview

ABC news interviewed Cory Doctorow. You can watch the interview here. I agree with his opinion about the iPad. He also talks about his new book which I have ordered and am looking forward...

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Cory Doctorow Book Signing

Last night we went to a book signing at the Coop. Cory Doctorow read from his next book For the Win. For the Win is about kids in south China taking part in gold...

Dwarf Fortress Computer 0

Dwarf Fortress Computer

Earlier this year my friend showed me the game dwarf fortress. Dwarf Fortress is like nethack but you control multiple dwarves. You create a dwarven colony. My dad showed me this. It is a...

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Flame

We found this cool program called Flame. It’s a Processing app written by Peter Blaškovič. It lets you paint with a paintbrush made of particles which chase the mouse around. You can make really...

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Peter Pane (thats bread in italian)

Yesterday and today we were making some bread. We weren’t making normal bread we were making no knead dough bread. This bread can “be made by a four year old”. The recipe is really...

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Wirebot

Check out this cool vibrating moving robot we made a while ago. Robot – take 2 from Garrity Family on Vimeo. We made it from an old back massager and some baling wire. You...

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PiePod™

This is my new invention I call it the Piepod™ (not really trademarked but it is always fun to imagine). The Piepod™ is my new mp3 player that I created. Sadly the Piepod™ does...

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Splash @MIT (day 1)

I went to something called Splash at MIT today. Splash is a big event of MIT students teaching classes about many diverse subjects, from chocolate to quantum physics. One of the classes I took...