Cuckoo Clock!

I've had a mild interest in Cuckoo clocks for as long as I can remember. Any kind of automata has captured my attention since I was kid. We haven't ever owned one, but I'm interested in the mechanical nature of them, and how interesting it is that people could make these literally hundreds of years ago. It's a real testament to engineering.We received a [...]

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Building a 3D printer

  March 14, 2010
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I should start out by warning you that this is not a build-log. My friend Isaac reminded me that before we started this project, this was blogging gold, and he didn't have a [...]

Y’know, that one song… from the 50’s?

  February 11, 2010
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So last night I was looking for a song that I've heard a million times, but have never known the name of. It's an instrumental, and I'm pretty confident that you've heard it [...]

SparkFun Free Day Fallout.

  January 8, 2010
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Well, I tried, and everybody I know tried. None of us made it. It's unfortunate, but I don't think any of us are going to die. If you haven't heard about SparkFun Electronics' [...]

Weekend Project: Tree-Waterer

  December 12, 2009
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Christmas is upon us, and we have gotten ourselves a Christmas tree. My wife and I are dedicated Tree-Killers Live-Christmas-Tree-Advocates. We just like the feeling of a live [...]

Being a lousy advocate: Me and DRM

  September 18, 2009
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DRM, You've probably heard of it. Digital Rights Management. Bane of legitimate users, irritant of illigitimate users, hopeful tool of content owners. By those 3 statements, I [...]

The iPhone Dilemma

  September 12, 2009
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You know I'm an Apple nerd. No one who builds a Hackintosh and sticks it in a G4 cube should be considered anything less than such. Naturally you'll be able to guess that I'm [...]

The Second Coming of the Electric Car

  August 11, 2009
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I've had a love affair with the Electric Vehicle (EV) for a few years now. I wish I could say I found it on my own, but I really only got into after watching Who Killed the [...]

Waiting for the E-Reader war to heat up…

  July 26, 2009
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If you would have asked me about e-readers a year ago, I would have told you that I knew Sony made one, the Kindle was pretty awesome, and there were a bunch more that were [...]

Arduino Starter Rundown – Part 2

  July 16, 2009
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Update: A useful comparison chart of Arduino Starter kits has been posted (by me) at ConductiveResistance.com. I invite you to check it out there. When I wrote the first [...]

Fun with IR

  July 15, 2009
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I've got a project coming up that deals with IR data transmission, so I thought I'd take some time and make a simple IR circuit to prove that I could. This is a very very [...]