Archive for September, 2006

ME 504 — Intro to MEMS

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I am refreshing my education — links for ME 504 at UW Class Page Feynman’s talk — handed out at first lecture Streaming video of lectures MyUW page Read more..

JOHN L. SMITH FAILS TO FINISH SANDWICH, PUZZLE

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Consider this early pre-reading for the trip to East Lansing. EDSBS ? Archive ? JOHN L. SMITH FAILS TO FINISH SANDWICH, PUZZLE EAST LANSING, MI–Michigan State Coach John L. Smith was unable ... Read more..

OSU/Iowa prereading

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

welcome to hawk central — Iowa City newspaper coverage Blog at the Des Moines Register; Des Moines Register Iowa section Read more..

Charlie Weis Ego Bloat

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

J pointed out to me there is a book about “Charlie Weis and Notre Dame’s Rise to Glory” which seems a little odd, since you generally need to both achieve ... Read more..

Recent Reads

Monday, September 25th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Last book posting for a little while…I am heads down on a lot of other things and probably won’t get a lot of books read for a while. Three Days To ... Read more..

Mechanical goodness

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Mechanisms and Movement — online resource for mechanical motion mechanisms — how to convert rotary motion to linear, irregular, etc. great great stuff. Lindsay Books — great catalog of all ... Read more..

Penn State Prereading

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

50 Yard Lion — solid analysis. PennLive.com — newspaper coverage. Tho it says something about rural PA that they are running a contest with Peter Frampton’s new CD as the ... Read more..

Water based fog system

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Apparently I have failed to link to the system I use for my primary fog system at halloween — fogmachines. The system hasbeen trouble-free for me for years and ... Read more..

Niche hardware vendors

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co. — crab line is apparently great for outdoor use TAP Plastics for plastic sheeting Kelsun distributors for oddball lightbulbs Read more..

Just what is so freaking secret?

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve been thinking about HP’s actions — A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way: "Pretexting" — and I’ve been wondering — just what is the board of a public company ... Read more..

Basic Lovefest

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Feld Thoughts: Where Has BASIC Gone? — Feld and commenters participate in the discussion about BASIC. I’ve recently come back to BASIC, programming BASIC stamps for Halloween. I have to ... Read more..

Servo Links

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

TCRG Links — bunches of suppliers and info sites servo connector pin-out — i needed this this week Read more..

Halloween ramping up

Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

All my gear and props delivered from door  to door storage over the weekend and unpacked today.  I’ve used these guys for storage for 4 years now and they have ... Read more..

Tivo 3 Lust

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: TiVo Nirvana Has Arrived, Series 3 TiVo Available Now $799 — I’d be all over this if it wasn’t the middle of football season. I ... Read more..

Buckeyes in ‘07

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Buckeye Fans Already Setting Sights On Next Year’s Championship AUSTIN, TX–After watching their team’s decisive victory over the Texas Longhorns on Saturday, Ohio State fans realized that the Buckeyes were virtually ... Read more..

OSU/Cincinnati Pre-reading

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Enquirer - Bearcats — coverage on the Cincinnati Enquirer website not much on the blog front for UC football — here’s one Big Ten weekly release for general conference goodness. The likely ... Read more..

Wiper Motor projects

Monday, September 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Wiper Motor Page — I’ve probably blogged this before, but a great source of info on using wiper motors in halloween props. Read more..

Delusional Key Banger

Sunday, September 10th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’d never seen this before Creature Supply — records 4 minutes of firing events for 6 output lines, and then replays on receipt of an input trigger (IR, switchmat, etc). ... Read more..

Big Ten looked pretty lame today

Saturday, September 9th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Of course the Buckeyes looked brilliant in beating Texas in Texas as expected. So all is basically right with the world. But look at the rest of these ... Read more..

“Pretexting”

Thursday, September 7th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Wired News: HP Dragnet Grabbed 9 Reporters — isn’t this just lying? Fraud? Tactics equivalent to social engineering used by identity thieves? Why does the press keep ... Read more..

More Texas-OSU Pre Reading

Thursday, September 7th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Men of the Scarlet and Gray — a blog covering the good guys Buckeye Commentary — another good guy blog An exhaustive analysis of the game based on last week’s games against ... Read more..

Brett on Ultralight Backpacking

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Brett on Stuff — great collection of ultralight backpacking and general outdoors stuff. Thanks Brett. Read more..

Single Sheet Plywood Coffin

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

One Sheet Plywood Coffin Project — some of the original plans for single sheet coffins are off the web, here is the best plan I found. UPDATE: a little better plan ... Read more..

Article on pneumatic circuit design

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MachineDesign.com: Right-sizing pneumatic motion systems — good breakdown of how to analyze pneumatic circuits, pointed out to me by the author. Read more..

Pre-reading for OSU-Texas

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK I know OSU played a game last weekend but really, the season starts this weekend. Here is my prereading: The Columbus Dispatch site of course. Most of ... Read more..