Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

QA100 USB Oscilloscope

interesting oscope that is an alternative to the seeed studio quad scope.  but its lame there is no display if working on stuff in the field

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Monday, October 14, 2013

Paul Gazis's Flight to the Borderlands

Crazy story about hang glider pilot crashing at big sur
gnarly trek out to civilization
was thinking about going paragliding here

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Monday, September 23, 2013

Aspirin IMU V2 10DoM – Transition Robotics Store

buy this as a way to experiment with flight control stuff.
Just need the processor attached to make a full control system for a UAV

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Want scientifically literate children? [VIDEO]

pretty good piece of advice.
Get out of the kids way.  spend 1 year teaching to walk and talk and the rest telling them to sit down and shut up.  let them explore. put a pair of binoculars out and see what they do with it.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

The "Ian Knot", the world's fastest shoelace knot - Professor Shoelace - YouTube

The "Ian Knot", the world's fastest shoelace knot - Professor Shoelace - YouTube:

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how to tie your shoelace right and fast!
you want the knot to be horizontal across the shoe or perpendicular to the shoe tongue.  it matters what order you tie the first overhand knot in and what direction the lose ends hang.  to get the correct one tie a right over left over hand knot then hang onto the strings and the left hand finger goes bottom to top so the lose end is nearest you then the right hand finger goes top to bottom so lose end is closest to the toe then finish the knot off.  you'll tie it fast and strong knot.  The strong knot is essentially a square knot vs granny knot!

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

TRONNORT Technology - Electronics Resourse Site

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good EE electronics electrical engineering blog.  had a good pcb design tutorial here too

PCB Design Tutorial

http://alternatezone.com/electronics/files/PCBDesignTutorialRevA.pdf

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Great tutorial.  Wish i would have read this prior to building a pcb cause i knew nothing about it.  This covers most of the bases pretty well in a short amount of time.

PCB Fabrication Sources [321] | General Electronics | Electronics

PCB Fabrication Sources [321] | General Electronics | Electronics:

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good source of pcb fab houses.  ITead studios looks better than seeed even.  pretty cheap prices

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Tindie | 21st Century Crafts

Tindie | 21st Century Crafts:

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cool site like kickstarter sort of but for makers with cool little projects.  some breakout boards on the cheap.