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Overheard at dorkbot last night...

The following was heard over a soldering iron at our casual Dorkbot gathering last night:

"Christ, that night in the hospital...my underwear was covered in ferric chloride stains."

Heh. :) I couldn't stop laughing....only at Dorkbot!


Squiggley is not Bang!

&& ! != ~


There are those days when I am pretty sure I cant program my way out of a brown paper bag.

And then there are those days when I don't care.

Some of the tiniest soldering I've ever done

In the last week or two I've been doing some of the smallest soldering I've ever attempted.

It all started with the KOLPXNTY board I've been designing and prototyping. I won't dive into detail here (maybe later!?), but the basic goal is to trigger a fairly large number of circuit bent devices from a networked computer.

kolpxnty

I'll put up a documentation page if/when it's more relevant.

Motorboard Buildout


Boards....

Uncanny Resemblance....


image (C) Max Cannnon click to go to redmeat

That would explain a lot wouldnt it?

Clear as Mud.

I am regularly sending ordinary people to look a the application sections of the datasheets for several electronic parts if they want to know how a part should be used. As I was laying out the motor boards for the weekends workshop I came across the following in the datasheet for the L239(not d) clone that Texas Intruments puts out.

Can you tell where the chip begins and the diagram ends? Can you tell that the diodes are (not really) included in the chip or would you add them to your parts count.?

Build Your own USB to Serial Device

Introduction

This is a first take on using the Benito board to create an open source USB to Serial converter.

Current interests

Blue tooth to classic handsets.

I'd like to take a classic Rotory dial phone make it dial and call and ring the old ringer make real phone calls. a cell phone communicator on a classic phone

Analog synths (homebrew portables mainly)

Old classic electronics gadgets working with newer things

Making musical instruments.

I'm interested in helping drive the technicals into the steam punk movement. Real steam, real workings inside the look. I tinker the magic kinda idea.


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