We’re having our company Christmas party in The Bahamas this year, so we’ll be off-line for about a week. First stop is Galveston for xmas with my family and to drop the kids off with my sister, then we hit the beach in Nassau. I’ll take lots of pictures, but don’t count on me uploading [...]
These are my links for December 21st through December 24th: SparkFun Electronics – LED Light Bar – RedSome red LED bars for my over sized hit counter. SparkFun Electronics – Autonomous Vehicle Competition – April 15thSparkFun is having an autonomous robot competition on April 15th. Any chance of a VEX competitor? Parts: 1K 1-Wire EEPROM [...]
Geosystems Situational Awareness Mast (aka Zippermast) from Travis on Vimeo. Geosystems Situational Awareness Mast (aka Zippermast) An ingenious method of lifting a camera much farther than any standard boom or scissor lift could. I’ll add this to the list of things to try someday. UPDATE: Travis points us to the original post with a lot [...]
YouTube – High Voltage Nerf Vulcan. I hooked up three 9.6V batteries to my nerf vulcan. Now I need to mod the battery compartment to hold them and build some longer chains. It goes through 25 rounds in about 3 seconds. This was inspired by ManaPotion’s 500 RPM Vulcan mod. I’ve reached their fire rate, [...]
YouTube – 500 Round Per Minute Dart Chaingun Hack. I’m thinking I need to do this mod with my gun, but I’ll add some heat sink to the motor if I can find or make one that fits.
These are my links for December 16th through December 20th: EXTRALIFE – Web comic for geeks, gamers, and stuff like that Atanua – AboutAtanua [Say it] is a real-time logic simulator, designed to help in learning of basic boolean logic and electronics. It uses OpenGL hardware-accelerated rendering and a custom UI designed for a fast [...]