Jonathan FooteInterview
Recovering scientist
Adapted from Jonathan Foote's interview on Uses This, published 22 July 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
The Logitech Marble Mouse is a good one.
I don't do Arduino because I know assembly and I'm a snob.
Coding & Development
Finally: Python is just the bomb.
Well, I've programmed everything from 1-bit microcontrollers to a Cray X-MP using everything from FORTRAN punch cards to brainfuck.
My tools have not changed much since grad school: emacs for coding and print statements for debugging.
I've also been known to use the C preprocessor to do silly things like generate printer art postscript files.
I feel like I have the patience for perhaps one or two more bloated toolchain learning curves in my life: Objective C may be one, VisualCsharp.net (or whatevertheheck it's called these days) is certainly not.
Design
I use EagleCAD for board design.