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ANTHONY ARAGUES


MAKE COOL STUFF AND SHARE

> Career page on Linkedin
> Linkedin articles
> Author page on Amazon
> Blender Market Products
> YouTube Videos
> Open source projects on Github
> Web3D Expperiments


COMMUNITY

I can't stress enough how important the concept of a community has been to me
lately. I like to participate in healthy communities, sometimes that means
brining them together where I see a gap. I've tought a lot of classes through
meetup on various topics just to share knowledge and get the perspective of
others. The 3d printing community when it was RepRap (before makerbot existed)
is one of the driving forces that motivated me to push through the obstacles.
The knowledge that what I discovered would help others in their experience and
we would all move forward together. I have found a similar community in Blender.
I run some of the Discord servers and participate in those communities. I also
created a couple new ones where I saw a gap such as Blender addon developers
working toegther. I was able to take this experience and apply it to a security
community recently and I'm so thrilled it was immediately successful. I've
worked with people who knew that communities were important but didnt have
enough earnest interest in developing them. They felt cold and transactional. My
recent experiences affirm my notion that great communities are where great
thigns happen.

Career page on Linkedin
Linkedin articles
Author page on Amazon
> Thoughts on Twitter
> Open source projects on Github
3D models on Thingiverse


ENGINEER

Creative thinking is fun. It takes measurement, iteration and perseverance to
make progress and know it. I highly recommend the Book: Black Box Thinking to
anyone willing to put in the work to make serious improvements in what they do.

Engineering is a mindset that can be applied to any task.





> A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person
> who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible. There are no
> prima donnas in engineering.
> ― Freeman Dyson (different Dyson)




DATA VISUALIZATION

There is a different level of understanding when data is visualized
intelligently. We are wired to process visual information much more naturally
than grids of text. I've been part of a growing movement to pay more attention
to the presentation of data easier to consume ways breaking past the
restrictions of static images on paper and seeing what we can do. If you pass
this off as being eye candy, or just making data pretty. I'd be happy to change
your perspective.

SECURITY

Wouldn't technology be great if it wasn't abused? Ohwell, that's why we have to
think of security. I am always balancing the security effort and spend with the
business needs, risk and complexity. Businesses and people need to be secured so
that they can get on with the things they intended to accomplish. Not replace
those things with being secure and not having any activity or money left to
secure. I have been in the security industry long enough to break past buzzwords
and fear marketing to practical actions.

DEVELOPMENT

Software development is a great tool. It helps me accomplish the things I need
to for myself and businesses. I don't apply this tool for any instrinsic value
but as a means to get things accomplished. I'll leave others to their discussion
on perfecting the art and what language is best while I move to the next project
that needs to be accomplished. I run development teams with a similar
philosophy. If it meets the requirements it's correct. If there's no measurable
difference that provides value it's developers choice.


INVENTOR

Ideas are cheap. I'm not that proud of them. Most great ideas already exist, but
someone didnt take the time to develop them. I commit to an idea, develop it,
test it and share the results. This is the majority of the work and where all
the credit should come from.

> Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical
> ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of
> getting up and doing it. -Jame Dyson



INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE BADGE

I developed an electronic conference badge that can be used to interact between
vendors, coordinators and participants. It's designed with lights, motors, a
screen and wireless connectivity capabilities. Different 3D printed bodies can
be created for it to fit the theme of an event and be swapped out for other
events.

Check out the Jasperbaord. Interactive, Social Event badge

HOME MANUFACTURING

I have been building 3D printers with the RepRap foundation since before you
could buy one for home use. It was a lot of fun to work with a community to
build a machine for about $1k that you had to spend $30k to buy commercially.
Now that home 3d printers are an everyday commodity I have been working with the
MaslowCNC project to bring the same advancement to full size (4'x8') CNC
routing. There's an additional level of enthusiasm when creating things that
help you make better things.

SECURITY PATENTS

At McAfee I was awarded patents for Botnet detection and Online Risk tied to
individuals.

BLENDER PRODUCTS

I got hooked on Blender. An open source 3d graphics application. The more I do
with it, the more I develop and share with others.


AUTHOR

Visualizing Streaming Data
Author page on Amazon
Linkedin articles
Leveraging phishing email
IPs aren't people


MENTOR

I'm constantly learning. For things I have been learning for a while and
accumulated some expertise I offer to help others. Whether it's kids getting
excited about technology or getting adults to branch out, I enjoy participating
in tech communities. I'm regularly participating and presenting in conferences,
meetups and faires. My topics include: Security, Data Visualization, Making
things, Software development and general career topics.





PROJECTS

A few projects I'd be happy to tell you about. You can select them for more
details

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 * Tinkering
 * Development
 * DataVis


JASPER BOARD

Make conferences and events more social and interactive with Jasperboard badges.
You can customize most aspects of the badge to fit your event in a fraction of
the time it would take to create a new one.
Get your attendees to engage with each other and vendors by gamifying
interactions.
Give them a unique event experience
Set your event apart as one vendors want to participate in due to the higher
engagement.


VIEW LIVE PROJECT


QUEST FOR SPACE

Teach kids coding and the scientific method through unique experiments in space.

VIEW LIVE PROJECT

JASPER BOARD

Interactive Social Event Badge

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QUEST FOR SPACE

Experiments in space for kids!

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NETWORK GRAPHING

Network graph: position in containers, counts in and out of them.

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NETWORK GRAPHING

Network graph: hierarchical relationships containers

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STREAMING BAR CHARTS

Streaming bar charts with all time increments inline

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LONG ROAD

Graphic Design

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