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    Thursday, July 20th, 2006

    Line Following Can

    Well, I know that line following robots are not new, and we have all seen them, but I can’t help myself. I think they are really cool, and like talking about them, and seeing other people’s designs for them. This is a pretty simple design. He uses white LEDs and cadium sulfide photovoltaic cells to [...]

    Saturday, July 15th, 2006

    Electric fan POV

    I have been looking for a while for a POV (persistance of vision, or as I prefer to call it a spinning LED) that uses an electric motor to spin the circuit. You can see my previous “Spinning LED” project that I made in undergrad here. Here is a cool project that uses an electric [...]

    Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

    Portable NES in a Gamegear

    Here is a cool project that my friend Brandon did over at www.zerosign.net. He took one of those megajoy III systems (You know that 1000 NES games in one console which is really like 20 games) placed it inside an old Sega Gamegear. He took the LCD screen off of a Hip Gear screen pad. [...]

    Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

    DIY Live hacked

    Hey, maybe some of you saw that my site was hacked. I got it back up, but I don’t know how they did it yet. I have some ideas though. I think they pushed a new index.php file into our server. Eventually we may have to do a server upgrade. I am also receiving a [...]

    Friday, July 7th, 2006

    Remote control laptop frame

    So have you got an old laptop, and don’t know what to do with it? Here is one idea, you can make a digital frame out of it. This is more than just an old laptop with a frame around it. This frame connects an IR sensor to the display. It is a fairly interesting [...]

    Monday, July 3rd, 2006

    Door alarm buzzer

    Well, I am excited to write one of my first articles in a long while. This one won’t be super detailed. I have been out of the loop for a while, so I will start back kind of slow. Thanks for all of you that have been faithful to this site even though I have [...]

    Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

    Married and back

    Well, I finally got married, and it is great. I went on a cruise down to Cozumel and Playa Del Carmen for my honeymoon. I have now started my rotations at the hospitals. I am in OB/GYN right now. It is kinda interesting. Things are hectic with me and my new wife getting settled into [...]

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