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
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 …
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) …
I’m waiting for a package like a snake in the grass.
And by that I mean I’m stalking fedex. I’m currently waiting for my Ardino starter pack to arrive from Adafruit Industries and I’m getting a bit impatient. I decided to automate the psychotic task of manually reloading the tracking page every ten minutes. I’m sure there are web sites out there to keep you updated …
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hello laserpointerforums people!
hello everybody! I read a few posts mentioning you have to wait a certain number of posts till you can post live links, and a few more till you can post images. I know that when asking questions about drivers, pictures are important, so…luckily I have a blog to put it up on! Here’s the …