Sometimes I get bummed out about how much of the internet is negative. Here’s my chance to say thanks for someone doing something positive. I’d like to give a lil’ shout out to Modern Device Company for having really good customer service. I placed an order and included a few questions along with it. The …
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LCD SUCCESS!!
I’m pretty happy I FINALLY got the arduino to hook up correctly with two different hd44780 displays. I used the arduino example found here. I had done this before, but I found out that the Liquid crystal library is kind of broken. It needs to have a few lines swapped out in order to load …
Sheesh… Sorry I haven’t called! It’s been a while!
so in the last lil’ bit I have not been blogging at all. Happily that has been because I’ve been swamped with projects, vacation, and work. Now I’ve got a big old backlog of updates on everything. Here we go! Grow your own shiitake mushroom log My beautiful girlfriend gave me a kit two years …
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A new frontier(s) in geekdom
After taking receipt of my arduino kit from adafruit industries I have been looking for cool projects to make. There is so much cool stuff out there! The first and most exciting one is from a youtube video. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hiz-Kx0kM[/youtube] I love the whole idea of this. Creating your own type of bell tower (or orchestra) …
Get yer lase on
As of last night I got my 16x sony diode all plugged in and turned on! I’ll have some pictures to prove it in a bit. I’m excited, but I really was expecting a bit more danger in the process. It’s bright, and it cuts very thin, dark things. It might even do a decent …
Treatise on living and loving lasers
In case you haven’t caught on yet. I love projects, and I am always starting a new one in order to abandon an old one. Recently I have become fascinated by the DIY laser movement propagated by the fine people over at laserpointerforums.com. My interest was piqued initially by “lamedust” who posted an instructable here …
to keep myself busy…
…i’ve been surfing the internet with a furious passion and trying to do little projects whenever possible. Here i wired up two uln2003a stepper motor drivers onto perf board. I’m not sure what i’ll need it for, but I’m pretty sure i’ll need it!
IT’S ALIVE!!!
I am going under the knife for ACL surgery in under a week, so I’ve been putting in hours on the CNC project like my life depended on it. I’m gonna be on the couch for about a week straight, and I’d like to be happy with where the project sits during that time. …
Router progress!
it’s been damn cold up here in the north country, but I’ve been out in the garage working on the gantry for the router. I often struggle with the problem of redesigning each piece a hundred times before I build it once. For this project I am trying to focus on getting a version 0.1 …
Bearings and Beer….hmmmm….. Beerings?
So here are the fruits of my weekend. These are the slide bearings for my CNC router. They’re made up of skate bearings, and angle aluminum. A really simple concept that makes my life simpler. you can see my new Keg-o-rator here. It’s almost a perfect fit in this closet, with just enough room left …