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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 |
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I don't seem to have the time to post here regularly, but I hope to make posting here a habit.
In the mean time I thought I would list some of the the stuff I am work on, experimenting with or just playing around with. Hopefully I will find the time to elaborate on this stuff down the road, but her is a short summary in no particular order. SquuezeCenter Chumby Parallel Programming LED sign Button Pad Xbee Amazon EC2 and more... Open the post to get more details
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 13 April 2008 )
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High Voltage Peep Glows Green |
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Written by Nat'n
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
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An Easter Peep electrified by High Voltage glows green with Electrical Energy
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 March 2008 )
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Radio Shack 3.3V Regulator |
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Written by Nat'n
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
 I was planning on playing with my XBee modules this past weekend when I relaized that I did not have any unused 3.3V regulators lying about. Since I needed a regulator to breadboard my design, I ran to Radio Shack. Radio shack seems to be stuck in 1989 as far as components are concerned, and they certianly don't have a very wide selection of in stock components. Well there was no way I was going to wait for mail order so I had to make due with what I had lying about and what I could get at Radio Shack. I bought a LM317T adjustable voltage regulator and combined it with some components I already had and constructed a fairly convienent adjustable voltage regulator with a wide input range (~2-40V) and a reasonable output range (~1.4V to 6.45V).
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 March 2008 )
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Written by Nat'n
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
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 I am playing around with Yahoo pipes to create input for my LED sign project. I want the sign to display text, but in an almost ambient way. The text should appear mostly anonymous and somewhat random, but related to realtime events. As a first attempt I created a Yahoo Pipe that takes my own Twitter stream and those of my friends, only allows one entry from any person, strips off the sender name and produces a very simple RSS feed with only a title attribute. Nothing else because the sign will only display the title information. For additional realtime wierdness I added the public Twitter feed, but reduced it to keywords only, no actual text, just extracted keywords. Basically it grabs random keywords from Twitter and sends them out as feed items. As a last convienence I added the current weather at my location to the feed.
Since my sign will be microcontroller based I want to transmit as little data as I can, so the feed is pretty stripped down. I will probably want to add some additional attributes down the road, but this seems like a pretty good start. You can see the pipe here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3FQ2aDvp3BG_vN1tMlrX_Q
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 March 2008 )
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
 It's been a very busy couple of weeks. I thought I should post something just to keep up some sort of momentum! I'll give you a list of what I have been working on, and put up a few pictures later.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 March 2008 )
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All Hail our robot masters! |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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Who can resist a chunky robot, in particular one made from paper! Here is my very first attempt at papercraft! 
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 February 2008 )
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