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My Project on "Futureweapons"

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:39:37 +0000

Wow, I am actually posting something...

A project I have worked on for over 2 years is being featured on the Discovery Channel's "Futureweapons" Show. It has already aired but I have put a copy of it on vimeo. (See the Video After the Break.)

I designed 5 custom Circuit boards, many cable harnesses, and assisted in the mechanical design for 3 motion systems on the MMW side of the Vehicle.

Christmas Light Videos

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:26:50 +0000

Hey guys. I know its been a while since I have posted. I have been busy at work.

As you may or may not know, I put computer controlled Christmas lights on my house. They are synchronized to music and free to anybody who comes by my house. This year I have only added songs and not any lights.

Here is a link to this years Videos

Here is my Main site.

Best Buy Black Friday Lines

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:31:41 +0000

Well today is black friday and earlier in the week I saw the black friday ads on bfads.net. Since my birthday was this month and I asked for money for a monitor I felt that a deal from Best Buy was great.

A " Westinghouse 22" Widescreen Flat-Panel TFT-LCD Monitor" for $199.99. Therefore, this morning my father and I got up at 4:00 am and went to best buy. We got there by 4:30 and the line was about 500 people long. It got even longer by 5:00 though It was probably about 750-800 then.

Christmas Lights Animated Using Simple Electronics [C.L.A.U.S.E. Project] (Part 4 of X)

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:20:34 +0000

Annoucing my website for the CLAUSE Project http://palmbaylights.com

I have Launched the website, and am almost finished putting up lights. More to come soon.

Light-O-Rama Animation Video Tutorial

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:37:26 +0000

Ok some of you may have wondered how I made my screen captured videos of my Christmas Light Animations. So I decided to write a tutorial for those who want to share.

First off you will need Windows Media Encoder 9. You can find it at this Link

After Installing WME 9 Then follow the following steps:

Christmas Lights Animated Using Simple Electronics [C.L.A.U.S.E. Project] (Part 3 of X)

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:38:03 +0000

Yesterday I started putting up lights for my Christmas display. Everybody kept on saying, Halloween isn't even here yet don't put you lights up. I told them I don't want to feel rushed later because I am going to have my official lighting ceremony the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Anyway I have finished all the lights that are up on my gutterline 14 strings of 150 lights a total of 2100 lights. And I am just getting started.... Evilgrin.

I ran into a couple problems once they were up and I was starting to test them. Half of one strand of Icicles is out, I still need to go figure out what bulb is bad.

Dell Axim x51v PDA

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:23:09 +0000

This is gratuitous self advertising, but I am selling my Dell Axim x51v PDA, I found I don't use it too much, it works fine but I would prefer having the money for Christmas presents. IE. being able to pay Jessi for her Purse Making Work that she is doing for me.

Here is the EBay Link.

Christmas Lights Animated Using Simple Electronics [C.L.A.U.S.E. Project] (Part 2 of ?)

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:05:00 +0000

I know its been a while since I have talked much about this project, but I have been busily working on it for the past few months.

I believe I last left you off in Part 1 with Pictures of my FM Transmitter assembly completed. Since then I have assembled my Light-O-Rama [LOR] Controllers, pulled power and signal wires, Built and mounted enclosures, and sequenced some songs.

Click more for all the details...

Xwing Cross Stitch

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:36:43 +0000

Just Left a comment on Jessi's Blog, and Made me want to share a cross stitch I had done about 8 years ago of an xwing so here it is.

Request for Jessi

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:14:35 +0000

As some of you may have read, my comment telling Jessi I would have a request for her Purse making abilities. I finally got my camera back from my parents house. Therefore, I was finally able to take pictures of the dogs Harness pouch.

I will be requesting that Jessi Make more stylish versions of this pouch. Details of the Request will be in the more Read more Section.

Shock Absorber Bounce-O-Meter

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:56:52 +0000

I just found this link watching a video blog on google video.

The Shock Absorber company makes Bras(you would think it would be shoes or something).

They have made a flash ad campain called the Bounce- O- Meter.

The Bounce-O-Meter lets you choose your Cup size and activity level and see how much of a difference a Shock Absorber Bra makes to a regular bra as well as no bra. Yes, They have 3D renderings of bouncing breasts with bras and without... The only question I have is how can something so wrong be so funny?

Test

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:19:16 +0000

This is a test of the blog spam filter... This is only a test...

Will the filter let me post...

Repeat... This is only a test

Christmas Lights Animated Using Simple Electronics [C.L.A.U.S.E. Project] (Part 1)

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:16:43 +0000

As you all might remember I posted about Christmas Lights Transiberian Orchestra Style last December. You also might remember I said my wife wouldn't let me do it to our own house. She reconsidered and we will be doing it this year we have been planning it for a few months and I figured now that I am starting my assembly phase that I should document it as well as writing a tutorial on how to do it yourself.

The first thing you need to know is you need a light controller. One of the better companies out there that sell light controllers needed to run the displays is Light-O-Rama. They are easy to program using their software.

Monday Riddle #28

Mon, 08 May 2006 23:53:28 +0000

Sorry Stella, You are late with your riddle so I am posting one instead.

Apparently this is an IQ test given to job applicants in Japan:

Riddle #69: [link]
The object of the game is to get everyone across the river. This is a test some Japanese applicants have to take when applying for a job in Japan. Once you begin this test, it's hard to stop. You feel so determined to get these people across. The instructions are listed below.

To start
Click on link, and then click on the big blue circle. The rules are as follows:

Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
The father can not stay with any of the daughters, without their mother's presence
The mother can not stay with any of the sons, without their father's presence
The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family memb! er, if The Policeman is not there
Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to! operate the raft
To start click on the big blue circle on the right.
To move the people click on them.
To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.

If you can do this correctly? You can land a job in Japan!

Sorry Stella will have to post the solution to last weeks riddle.

Update:
You're awesome, Robogeek! Thanks for posting the Monday Riddle this week. Jason has been solving my riddle the same day I post for the past few weeks that I was beginning to become discouraged :)

Read more for the solution to last week's riddle.

How to dismantle a Nextel IDEN Connector

Sun, 07 May 2006 21:47:16 +0000

This post is written primarily for the benefit of mongo after his comment on this post. I figured it would benefit everyone. Therefore I am posting it here instead of a personal email to him.
He requested where he could get a nextel connector with a pigtail, with every signal pin available, to allow him to charge the phone, use the PTT switch, the earphone and microphone signal.
I cannot provide a source for a connector with a pigtail, although I can provide instructions for making one. Those instructions follow.