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55g servo drawing.
For anyone that needs the drawing for a 55g servo, here we go. It’s been some time since I’ve updated but never fear, more boring stuff is to be posted soon heres is a link to the actual PDF if … Continue reading
A crummy little servo tester and other minutia
The little servo tester Well, I needed a way to test all of these servos I got from EBay and I decided to spend a little time making a quick and dirty little board for doing that. It uses a … Continue reading
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Tagged diy, FAT, File Allocation table, pic12f683, RC servo, Stormer viscometer, viscometer
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Stormer Viscometer Grams to Oz-Inch Conversion
Trying to make sense of the standard stormer viscometer and methods that could be used to calibrate a device, I’ve been looking at the original stormer viscometer in order to get an idea of what ‘grams’ actually means in the … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion, grams, krebs, oz-inches, Stormer viscometer, torque
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Quick post, a couple of drawings.
The chill is in the air, October is here. I’ve been pretty busy with the viscometer and some other things, however I drew a couple of objects just for future reference. I figured somebody might need the dimensions of either … Continue reading
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Tagged drawings, pdf, qy-2004a, stormer paddle
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Time’s a passin’ – DIY Arms, Music, and invention
Well, the past few weeks have been eventful and interesting. I’ve been busy and school is almost over. I’ve had a few things on the go and I’ve come up with some interesting ideas and implementations. Sorry for the lack … Continue reading
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Tagged accelerometer, business, camera level, invention, measuring arm
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Still goin’ at ‘er, now attending the self employment program
Well, no new project pictures or anything. Summer is almost here and I’m pretty happy about that. I’m going to start at a training course for 8 weeks starting May 11. The program itself is funded through the Canadian Government … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, ei, microbusiness, self employment program
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A Drawing of a Servo, for reference.
Well, my servos have all come in for a project I’ve been working on. These ones being some cheap Chinese servos that I picked up off Ebay. Here’s a photo of one of them. Now that I have them I … Continue reading
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Tagged 9G, cheap, chinese, dimensions, drawing, ebay, pdf, RC servo, servo
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Bored, playing with DooM maps.
Many years ago I used to make maps for Doom. There is still a community going strong for making maps and now with modern source ports and editors, sometimes I dabble in making a new maps. Anyways, here are some … Continue reading
Wrote a little game… Astrosmasher
Well, out of boredom I’ve created a little game called Astrosmasher. Nothing special really, I just wanted to see if I could make a game look like an old Atari game. I think I succeeded in some ways Astrosmasher is … Continue reading
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Tagged astrosmash, atari, game, gml, Programming
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Temperature and light, several days
Well, It’s been a number of days since I built the unit and all’s been tested. Here is a picture of some of the data from my living room over the past several days. The purplish is the temperature and … Continue reading
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Tagged freebasic, graphing, light, temperature, tracking
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Temperature and ambient light tracking
So, since I’m really bored I decided to build a device that tracks ambient temperature and light levels. While this may not seem very interesting, I suspect the relationship between the two, while not directly linked, will be interesting especially … Continue reading
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Tagged 7014d, light, lux, pic, pic16f684, temperature
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Playing around, drawing a valve.
I was a little bored today so I decided to draw a valve. While the dimensions are entirely drawn from my head and the valve itself wouldn’t be very efficient, I like the look of gas compressor valves. It took … Continue reading
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Tagged assembly, drafting, gas compressor, solidworks, valve
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Kinda been in a creative funk…
For the last while I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk. Troubles at work and the the weather have made it difficult to concentrate on the things that I like. Anyways, perhaps while I have some time off … Continue reading
The LED Clock
Well, for the past little while, I’ve been working on a bizarre clock made with LEDs glued into a dollar-store cookie sheet. I got the idea just out of the blue and decided that it would be fun to build. … Continue reading
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Tagged clock, electronics, led, pic18f4685, stupid
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The lamp I’ve been saying I was going to build
Well, I’ve built it, the useless yet fun, timer lamp. The idea behind the timer lamp is to have a bedside lamp that you can turn on and of but also set it to turn off after a certain amount … Continue reading
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Tagged electronics, lamp, pic16f505, project, timer
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Project Report
Following is a report of my progress regarding the viscometer. Having spent several months on this project and having gone through four mechanical iterations and umpteen electronic iterations of design, it’d be a good idea to go through and describe … Continue reading
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A quick and dirty project.
Being bored and needing a reasonably safe source of 120VAC I decided to build a little box with some terminals. Just something simple. It may not be the safest thing in the world but it beats the shit out … Continue reading
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