Entries Tagged as 'general geek'
2008 Arduino Holiday Gift Guide
November 19th, 2008 · No Comments
In making my list annual of goodies I usually look for other people who have compiled "gift guides" aimed specifically at geeks like me. Usually they are written for the wrong kind of geek, and are full of things like star trek stuff, D&D, LEGO, or model airplane parts. All of those things are definitely [...]
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Looking for more project blogs?
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Yesterday I discovered that looking at the list of TGIBOEJ hopefuls is a great way to find new geeky-project blogs. There are a lot of flickr and twitter links, but there are also a lot of other interesting links. It's good to hear that there are plenty of other people tinkering away in their basements [...]
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The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk (or TGIMBOEJ to his friends)
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments
I put myself on a list over at tgimboej.org to try to get a big box of junk to show up at my door! I'm super excited about the idea, because it combines my love of looking at geeky stuff with a strict one in / one out policy. It'll be cool to swap some [...]
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Just a tease
November 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Here's my newest project. It's not yet ready to drop, but I'll give you a lil taste to see if you can figure it out.
Tags: general geek · photography
Nuclear Missile Silo
November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
a few weeks ago I got the opportunity to go check out a nuclear missile silo in the area that had been decommissioned and converted into a private residence. The owner's name is Alex and he's nothing like what you would expect (considering he owns a nuclear missile silo.) His website is siloboy.com and is [...]
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USB Pumpkin light
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
So my girlfriend really loves halloween, and I love her, so I made her a tiny jack-o-lantern with a usb light. Super simple, I just cut an old usb cable up, pulled out the red and black wires, used a LED resistor calculator (usb provided 5v) Then I soldered in the resistor, heat shrunk it [...]
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8 tips for Time lapse photography
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Here's a few things I have learned while sitting in fields waiting for my camera to finish working for me.
8 tips for shooting SLR time lapses
1) Put your camera on full manual - otherwise the still will flicker from one to the next.
2) Try to pick objects that are still, or are far away enough [...]
Tags: general geek · time lapse · video
usb camera trigger / usb mouse hack
October 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is a super easy hack, but I decided to post it because I think that it could benefit a lot of makers out there. Anything that makes documenting your work easier is a good thing in my book
So this could be so much more(-or less) depending on how you use it, but I don't [...]
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MIT Swapmeet was rad!
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Two weeks ago I went down to MIT to check out their once-monthly swap. I wandered around and was impressed by everyone else's high level of wizardry, as well as their piles of cool stuff. I didn't end up buying much, but I got a ton of new ideas! The pics below show all of [...]
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Lego NXT vs Arduino
May 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
I have always been interested in Lego NXT. It seems like a really easy way to get into robotics, and programming. I have never really figured out how functional it is in the "real world" (whatever that means) The other day a coworker was really pushing the idea on me telling me I needed to [...]
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