Julian BleeckerInterview
Designer, technologist (Near Future Laboratory)
Adapted from Julian Bleecker's interview on Uses This, published 14 March 2012. 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 ↗
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For computing, my hardware is a MacBook Pro with, I dunno - a bunch of "cores" in it.
Like - next to my computer is a Extech 382213 DC Regulated Power Supply for powering the little small devices and prototypes we make.
And in front of that is an Atmel AVR JTAGICE3 Debugger and Programmer.
I've been shooting skateboarding lots - a Smith Grind project and a book called Hello, Skater Girl - so I usually travel light but when I need to bring everything, I roll it all in a Desert Tan Pelican 1510 case - it'll fit in the overhead on most planes except Virgin Atlantic, as it turns out, but only when you're coming back from London.
PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II+ 1 other
I use a Canon Pixma Pro9500 Mark II for printing.
Oh, and some of that is moving around to make space for a Manncorp MC385v1v pick-and-place machine.
Sometimes I'll use the Arduino IDE to sketch out some code as well.
Productivity
Coding & Development
Oftentimes, a microcontroller is at the center of that and I'll use Atmel 8-bit devices and their AVR Studio software IDE and JTAG ICE programming devices.
If I'm coding for an iOS device, like iPhone or iPad, I'm pretty much stuck using the Xcode IDE, more or less.
Design
I use Eagle PCB for creating schematics and producing data for printed circuit board fabrication.
Media
I use ImageIngester Pro 3 which has to be force-killed at the end of the ingestion.
I recently switched to Ingestamatic which is new and improved and really wants me to geotag my photos, but I don't.
I use Photo Mechanic for a first-pass of selection/deletion and assigning metadata.
Photoshop Lightroom+ 86 others
It's horrible, but better than LightRoom 3 for just adding useful metadata to photos.
Storage
I use GoodSync for Mac to get my photos into a global, geoseparated triple-redundancy scheme and to do field backups.