Hobbies include:
Robotics.
Microcontroller and embedded systems development (AVR and ARM).
Digital and analog electronics.
Custom audio amps.
Analog synthesizers and sequencers.
Guitar.
Geodesic structures.
Coffee roasting.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
1. Deserving use of spare cpu cycles for 'always on' machines.
2. One of the most significant topics to our collective meaning as a species. If other life is found everything changes.
3. Installation was a chore in command line due to lack of clear documentation. Less experienced users will probably give up on this install.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.