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NXT Bluetooth Echo Terminal with Bonus Mobile Robot

Today I worked on making my NXT communicate with my laptop over Bluetooth. This is great because you can untether your projects and control your robots programmatically. Set up the NXT Bluetooth with your mac as shown here, http://tonybuser.com/bluetooth-serial-port-to-nxt-in-osx Open a … Continue reading

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Lego Line Follower

Playing with Legos again tonight! I made a little simple Lego Mindstorm line follower using the light sensor and two motors providing differential drive. Simple project tonight because I haven’t posted in forever and this was fun. More code and … Continue reading

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Tabletop Telepresence Robot

Two weeks ago I saw the Sparkfun new product post and instantly knew their new product would make a perfect telepresence robot. Now all of my parts arrived and I finally got it all put together! It’s basically a mashup … Continue reading

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Rat Plotter

Last year Jeri Ellsworth did a neat radar demo where she attached a radar sensor to a mouse and then scanned what was under a cloth by moving around the mouse and recording the radar response as she measured different … Continue reading

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Fontasaurus! I made a font today.

It ain’t pretty. Today I made a font using a neat web tool called FontStruct.  FontStruct is a flash-based web tool for creating and sharing custom fonts. The twist is that you must assemble the fonts from pre-made shapes (squares, … Continue reading

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Programming languages I’ve learned in order

Inspired by this post on nodnod by DZ that I found today while randomly browsing. I’m taking liberties with the term programming language, but it’s my blog so bite me. BASIC on an Apple II and on what I think … Continue reading

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Cmoy Headphone Amplifier, part 2

Tonight I made significant progress on my Cmoy amplifier. It makes promising noises now but it’s noisy and generally is not super-awesome sauce. I think I’m going to lay out a PCB design for it and assume that most of … Continue reading

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Cmoy Headphone Amplifier, part 1

Tonight I got started on building up my new headphone amplifier. I decided to build this because my laptop does not do a good job with my new headphones. This design ought to provide a little more power. The amplifier … Continue reading

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Collecting Disk Access Traces on Windows with Tracelog

Here is some information on how I have been collecting disk access traces on Windows using Tracelog.  Tracelog utilizes the ETW which I believe is only supported by NT5 based kernels (Win2k, XP, some server versions).  Please let me know … Continue reading

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LED Matrix Assembled

The LED Matrix lives! This weekend I got it put together and blinking it’s blinkies! More details after the cut.

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