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)
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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Removing the auto reset in Bare Bones Board Arduino
I’m currently working on a project that requires the Arduino to accept serial input from my mac. This would ordinarily be fine, but the auto-reset function means that the arduino resets whenever I send it data, and then it forgets the data! I emailed Paul at Modern Device company to ask if there was an …
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Just a tease
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.
Freeduino Bare Bones Board Build (w/Macro shots!)
Last night I built two Freeduino Bare Bones Boards. I had two kits. One was from Moderndevice, and one was from MAKE. They were essentially the same kit, but different versions. There was one resistor difference I believe. The first kit took me quite a while to put together – probably about an hour. The …
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Print contact sheets / thumbnails from video footage
This is a task I don’t like doing, but it is certainly useful if you have a lot of footage to sort through and not everyone is very technically inclined. It allows you to print a contact sheet from every x frames/seconds/minutes of a video file. That helps when you are looking for a specific …
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Nuclear Missile Silo
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 …
Macro Tube!
I juts got a macro tube in the mail. It’s basically a dumb (ie you need to be on full manual mode-no metering or AF) piece of aluminum that moves the lens further away from the camera body. Doing so it decreases the minimum focal point. Basically it means you can get really tight up …
USB Pumpkin light
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 …
8 tips for Time lapse photography
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, …