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 General: Welcome, Nuts and Volts Readers! |  |
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| Posted on 2008-08-27 @ 22:04:27 by r00t... |
| Welcome to my website. Whether you arrived here via the link in the Nuts and Volts September 2008 issue, where it was announced that I won (new window) Vern Graner's Personal Robotics $100 Workbench Design Challenge (new window), or in another manner, I want to thank you for visiting.
Enjoy the website, and consider joining phoenixgarage.org's member list to post comments to this and other articles! |
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| General: Possible Breakage... | |
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| Posted on 2008-07-06 @ 03:09:09 by r00t... |
| To all who visit: Please be patient, I am switching stuff over to mod_rewrite, and you may notice things breaking from time to time. This is normal. I will post a comment when everything seems stable. If you continue to have problems, please contact me... |
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| General: Reciprocality - An Archive | |
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| Posted on 2008-07-03 @ 20:26:25 by r00t... |
| "This project began as a bit of practical industrial psychology, and ended up unfolding into an understanding of how most people in most human societies have a consistently distorted view of everything. Not everyone is caught in the confusion, and as the picture emerged, an alternative model of relationships between observable phenomena that seems to be experienced by creative programmers in software engineering, star diagnosticians in medicine, great physicists and mathematicians, so-called ADHD children, people who "Know Quality" in industry, poets, painters, sculptors and mystics became describable - but only in its own terms. The alternative picture is wholly rational, but not reductionistic. Best of all, it is scientifically grounded and experimentally testable. If the experiments fail we can junk it. If they work, we've learned something important." - Alan G Carter |
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| General: Modern Mechanix: Yesterday's Tommorow Today | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-30 @ 23:03:39 by r00t... |
| This blog was recently recommended to me. If you are a fan of old tech magazines (Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Byte, etc), then you will love this site. |
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| General: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-20 @ 21:17:16 by r00t... |
| All I can say is "WOW!" - this is a great example of street art... |
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| General: Mr. Trent Franks: Why do you think I am stupid? | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-09 @ 19:41:35 by r00t... |
| I recently (like 5 minutes ago) sent an email to my Congressman, Trent Franks (new window), after I received one of his so-slickly-produced mailers. Even though I should know better by now, it still surprises me that he regards the citizens of this state to be so ignorant. Then again, maybe he is right? |
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| General: America is China is America - The All-Seeing Eye | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-08 @ 17:35:47 by r00t... |
| Every day I seem to come across an article or comment that does nothing but solidify the idea, in my mind, that we are living in a dystopian nightmare as bad or worse than anything depicted in a fictional context. |
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| General: The Law of 150 - Otherwise Known as the Monkeysphere | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-08 @ 14:40:38 by r00t... |
| "One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic." -Sportacus
So begins David Wong's (new window) humorous and insightful article on Cracked.com. |
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| General: Daniel Quinn - The Human Future: A Problem in Design | |
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| Posted on 2008-04-29 @ 07:48:29 by r00t... |
| Sometimes the jewels on the internet are hidden from you until that right moment and time comes along, when it somehow seems to hand you the treasure. I was recently handed such a gem, and I want to share it with you. |
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| General: FOSS Factory | |
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| Posted on 2008-04-13 @ 13:03:36 by r00t... |
| FOSS Factory is the only website where the community collaborates on every aspect of free/open source software production, including design, funding and development. Our mission is to help accelerate the advancement of free/open source software. |
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| General: Ugly doesn't begin to describe it... | |
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| Posted on 2008-04-06 @ 22:09:04 by r00t... |
| Of course, what I am referring to here is the look of the site, especially under Internet Explorer 7. |
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| General: Republican Presidential Nominee McCain Responds!!! | |
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| Posted on 2008-08-26 @ 00:40:25 by r00t... |
| I recently received this email response from John McCain. Note the distinct lack of reference to what it is regarding. This man and his staff are considered "presidential material"? A wookie from the planet Endor makes more sense than this... |
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 Projects: Making SSH and OpenSSH Play Nice | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-06 @ 19:27:47 by r00t... |
| Towards the end of the development of the new "look and feel" for this site,
I ran into an interesting issue when I attempted to implement an automatic
authentication scheme between my development server and and the virtual
server my site is hosted on. The issue turned out to be easy to resolve, but
learning how to do so required me to perform many Google searches before I
had the correct answer. |
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 Personal: Tasty...? Morton_toes' BBQ Bacon Breasts | |
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| Posted on 2008-07-09 @ 21:42:37 by r00t... |
| I found this recipe today on Fark (new window) - I haven't made it yet, but I thought it sounded tasty:
Morton_toes' BBQ Bacon Breasts (new window)
Read on for locally-hosted version of the comments and recipe... |
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| Personal: A Public Apology to the Cox HSI Support Staff | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-15 @ 16:53:53 by r00t... |
| First off: I apologize, for both my attitude and demeanor during our email conversations. Yes, the issue was at my end, but one can easily see how I was mistaken - it wasn't so much that I was wrong (which I was), but that I didn't have all of the information, either. Read on... |
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| Personal: Cheap and Cheezy Mac and Cheese | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-07 @ 21:35:08 by r00t... |
| Tonight, my wife and I prepared a cheap meal, part of which was a simple box of mac-n-cheese. But a little improvisation went a long way... |
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 Sciences: The McMaster Engine: An Engine for Our Time | |
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| Posted on 2008-07-02 @ 23:00:43 by r00t... |
| In this time of expensive gasoline, any gains in fuel usage efficiency can only be taken so far using ordinary Otto-cycle engines as found in most cars. What is needed is a more efficient engine. Engines with complicated arrangements of cranks, cams and pistons have a lot of moving parts: parts which induce friction, parts which have to be cooled and lubricated, parts which can easily fail. Enter the McMaster Engine... |
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| Sciences: Need Alternative Fuels? Find a Station Here! | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-29 @ 11:25:58 by r00t... |
| I recently received the occasional email newsletter sent from Knowledge Publications (new window), my favorite alternative energy book publisher. I am just a customer, but I have found that even what they offer for free is worth way more than what they charge. |
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| Sciences: High Fuel Prices? It's The Investors, Stupid! | |
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| Posted on 2008-05-30 @ 23:46:46 by r00t... |
| As a resident of Arizona, I recently heard about Senator Jon Kyle's opinions on why we have high gas prices. The following URLs shed light:
'Cause-and-effect' behind high gas prices (new window)
Dollar Value Down, Gas Prices Up (new window)
I disagree with this, and if you continue reading, you'll see why... |
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 Robotics: Programming the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2 using Linux (Read Parent) | |
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| Posted on 2008-08-26 @ 00:19:23 by r00t... |
| Those of you following along know that my current project is the design and construction of a homebrew UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle). I intend to control it using a BASIC Stamp 2 OEM microcontroller module I constructed (see my assembly primer (new window) for more details). So, once I had the module built, I then needed some way to program it... |
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| Robotics: Status on my ROV, err - UGV (Unmanned Ground Vehicle) (Read Parent) | |
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| Posted on 2008-08-25 @ 22:19:21 by r00t... |
| I just wanted to post a short "status update" on where my ROV project stood. First off, I am sure you notice the name change... |
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| Robotics: The Basic Stamp 2 OEM Assembly Primer (Read Parent) | |
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| Posted on 2008-08-25 @ 21:49:35 by r00t... |
| I wrote this primer for those out there who may need some extra visual and written explanation to the assembly manual which is included with the Basic Stamp 2 OEM kit (new window) from Parallax. |
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| Robotics: Robot Intelligence: An Interview With A Pioneer | |
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| Posted on 2008-06-06 @ 19:28:20 by r00t... |
| I recently had the pleasure to conduct a short and informal email interview
with a pioneer in the field of hobbyist robotics, David L. Heiserman. |
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| Robotics: A Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Project | |
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| Posted on 2008-05-29 @ 23:32:04 by r00t... |
| THE CONCEPT:
In the early part of 2005, I began the design and construction of an ROV based
on the chassis of a 1/6-scale radio-controlled toy monster truck. Utilizing
this and other various items, I managed to implement a working - if not very
elegant - ROV system. Though I never obtained any video of it in operation, I
did manage to document its construction with a series of photographs. |
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