WHILE the idea of this project and what it will accomplish may not seem like much, I think for me it was more of a challenge to see if I could implement it. After all, the whole basis of engineering is making life easier for everyone else, and I suppose even if this project will …
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The Robot
I’ve been in school since August, which leaves little time for building fun side projects like I do when I’m not in school. What I have been building has related to our first senior design project, where we were asked to build a robot that could “perform” laproscopic surgery. You can read about that here. …
Fridge Speakers
Long story short, if you leave your iPod in your car in the summer in Charleston it will probably break. Especially when you used to cook pizza in the summer on your car’s black vinyl interior. So now, on my iPod, the chip that controls the headphone jack only works if it’s cold. Go figure. …
Xbox Media Center: ccxstream
So I modded my xbox a while back, basically turning it into a media center. I keep TV shows, movies, and games on it. It’s pretty handy. Any way, it only has a 200 GB hard drive in it, and a while back I discovered a program called ccxstream that allows me to use another …
Something I Worked Out While Driving My Truck
OK so this is probably not going to have any pictures, but I need to get this down somewhere. I was thinking about Chase’s Eclipse, and how the relay circuit I built was pretty big since I used relays instead of an IC. The reason I chose to go with relays in the first place …
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Felicity’s Floor Mats and Shift Knob, More from Sue
So I ordered new “Z” emblem floor mats for my ’92 Nissan 300ZX. The ones that were sold to me with the car were cheap generic rubber floor mats, and there can’t be any of that in a car that is nearly a classic. To the best of my knowledge, the 300ZX came with mats …
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Hit the STOP button!
OK first of all, for my one reader, which is probably just me (and maybe Bradley) but that’s ok since I only really made this blog (interesting post-production note: the blog’s spell checker thinks that “blog” is not a real word) to keep myself in line any way, I know I haven’t been up on …
Sue’s New Trunk Liner
So the first thing I’ll be doing to my old Sentra (on this blog, any way) is building a custom trunk liner. Here’s a picture of the trunk, which reminds me that I need a new scissor jack and tire iron. The old liner was made out of cardboard and more or less disintegrated over …
160 GB MP3 Player for $160
My first MP3 player was pre-iPod, and I bought it second-hand from a friend of mine in high school for $100. It’s an Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 and is probably the greatest MP3 player ever made to date, despite its age.Let’s run down what made (and still makes) this media center great. First of all, …
A boring one… but whatever.
So I used to be a Windows user in my lesser days. Any way, two years have gone by since I switched full-time to Ubuntu, I haven’t found a replacement for Quicken until now. (I was listening to the Moody Blues and it just came to me… Online banking! Yippie!) So here’s what I did …