Safely tucked away in every manned spacecraft that leaves Earth for other places should be a very important book. A book that will tell people how to go from pounding stones to building their own spacecraft. Every step and option in between will be covered. A how-to of all that humanity has done since it […]
I was just thinking about FDM extruders and how mine occasionally strips out the filament. When it happens, the usual set of words are uttered and I go and cancel the print. It would be nice to have a quadrature encoder attached to the idler wheel. But when a strip occurs, the idler wheel just […]
Sorry it’s been so long without an update. I’ve got a few Adafruit projects in the pipeline that should be announced sometime in the future. I do not like to perpetuate vaporware, so I will not be going into any more detail. Last weekend was Global Dance Festival. First night left me feeling really disappointed […]
Reflekt with Delline Bass made this incredible tune called “Need To Feel Loved.” This is one of those songs that makes you turn the volume up to 11, and lean your head back as waves of euphoria course through your body. I first heard this probably listening to Discover Trance Radio when it was Liquid.fm. […]
I have no idea how I found them. I remember browsing the Mouser catalog. At some point between finding screw terminal blocks and supercapacitors, they just caught my attention. Neon Lamps! They just grabbed my attention. It’s coming back to me now. I was looking at gas discharge tubes for some pretty straight-forward oscillators. With […]
I will be working a project to integrate a device with the Google PowerMeter service. It is going to involve a lot of Python and learning HTTPS. I have worked with some HTTP before with SparkFun’s Kegerator. Even then, I had not even scratched the surface of HTTP. I will continue to post about things […]
I have to put this down somewhere. I need a list of things that I want to be working on. Some of these are in various stages of completeness. Heat Transfer Project controller. One of my old DemoSAT buddies needs me to put together a controller for his heat transfer project that is going up […]
Alright, here it is, my very own blog. I have written for Hack a Day, but this is my very own, just for and about me blog. I expect to be writing about my electronics work, my MakerBot operations, my thoughts, the music I listen to, and life. I have this blog setup on my […]