October 2012

The Presque Isle Community Center is a project I have worked on closely over the past many months and something I think is hugely important to our community.  Looking back through my lifetime of growing up in Presque Isle I can think of no place I further enjoyed or had a larger Read More

Run lots of wire!!! Like way more than you think you’ll ever need… because someday you’ll wish you had it! For Quadomated that meant over 8000 feet of home automation wiring… and I still wish we had pulled some more!  Probably sounds like crazy overkill, but think of it this way, Read More

I had a really funny/awesome encounter with an adorable little girl and her mommy while cruising around the grocery store with Caleb yesterday.  The kid was in the driver’s seat, sitting in the bottom of one of those race car like grocery carts (what did I say… KIDS LOVE RACE Read More

Might as well start with the big guns!  Probably the most important decision of Quadomated and for any home automation project is which security/automation panel will be the central brains of your system? I researched this question for several months and found the folks at Read More

One of the primary goals when I started Quadomated was to document the building of a “passive solar smart automated home.”  Throughout this journey I showed bits and pieces of the pre-wiring, wrote posts/took pictures of the individual subsystems, and in a couple places even Read More

Tune in to the 10 AM Sesame Street Episode, “Brandeis is Looking for a Job” about service dogs this morning!  One of Caleb’s CCI classmates and best buds will be showing the furry stuffed animals how it’s done. Here’s a little sneak peek of the song “Life as a Servi Read More

Couldn’t decide what to name this post… “How Parents Make Their Kids Scared of People in Wheelchairs” or “Kids Think Wheelchairs Are Freaking Cool!”.  Since I always try to take the positive road I figured I’d go with the latter even though the first title would probably be the Read More

Seems like a pretty simple concept, but something that has made an absolute profound difference in my life.  To think what it would be like as a quadriplegic without my computer, and particularly without the voice recognition software I use to interact with it so effectively Read More

Wondering how many of you out there have ever had a moment, when you’re strolling through life breathing in the fresh air, listening to the rustle of the leaves beneath you, as you feel summers last moments of sunshine, and just take a moment and completely loose yourself and Read More

After way too many months of silence, a summer full of Caleb the Super Dog adventures unshared, Quadomated electronic awesomeness undocumented, and my rants about the screwedupness of the disability system unheard I think it’s time Quadomated refound its voice! And this Read More