November 25th 2008
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[Note: Anna's relayed too many stories lately of the extents to which other mothers go to fix their strollers. Its prompting me to write this post.]
Are you the owner of a Graco stroller? (possibly other brands) Has the wheel fallen off? Have you:
Thrown out the stroller and bought ...
November 25th 2008
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This was dug out of the basement the other day. This invoice was for our first real computer. (My family technically started by coding Logo and playing Buck Rogers by tape cassette on an Adam) This AST 286 and its where all of the trouble really began. I remember the ...
GPS Case
Originally uploaded by Eightlines
Playing with code is fun, but when you do it all day for work it's nice to come home and build something tangible. I picked up some scrap Hard Maple from the baseball bat manufacturer that happens to make Barry Bonds' bat of choice (purportedly). Now ...
When I last left the data logger project off I was having quite a few issues with managing the size of the data in the allotted EEPROM space on board the Arduino. I built up an SDCard writer based on several specs I found in the messageboard and it worked ...
November 4th 2008
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I'm just going to put this out there, I feel its something that isn't talked about often and can be an influencing factor when making things. Building things yourself will almost certainly cost you more than if you buy the object in the store (if it exists already). On almost ...
November 2nd 2008
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So after posting the previous entry I went to sleep, only to find myself thinking about improving the visual aspect of the Conversation Cloud. I decided that adding physics would be the way to go, it would allow words to deflect off of each other, grow and gain mass, and ...
November 1st 2008
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Word of mouth is one of those impossible things people like to track. The best people seem to be able to do is to ask the question on a registration form, "Where did you hear about us?"
Is it possible to track word of mouth any better? This is the premise ...