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Sock Monkey Pants

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:57:00 -0500

Hi! I warned you about sock monkey pants, did I not?I will blog the elections class materials this afternoon. We are doing the "Funny Hats at the Convention" project today with some other kids that are coming over, and I want to include pictures and

Easier DIY Controllers: MachineCollective in Beta, Shipping Next Month

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:34:49 -0500

There’s a growing appetite for using custom controllers or creating DIY controllers from scratch. Why not, after all, get exactly the number of knobs and sliders you want, in just the layout you want? Where a lot of these projects stumble, thou

Shiny objects...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:28:00 -0500

Got distracted again. There's been a lot of stuff going on recently, and it's been a bit tough to keep up between doctor's appointments, imaging appointments, and life in general. The EtsyOrganicTeam is off to a good start, and I've, apparently, be

Installing a Toilet on a Hardwood Floor

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:30:42 -0500

I’m slowly but surely making progress on the new floor. It’s looking really good and I’m excited to see it come together. Soon I’ll be starting the baseboard and quarter-round. I took a slight detour from the floor to get our half bathroom ba

I'm Pretty sure I love Green!

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:58:00 -0500

I'm excited to show you what I did and bought over the weekend. My mother and I had a fun little trip to TJ Maxx. I didn't get a ton of stuff, but these hooks are a new favorite of mine - I love them. I can't wait until they are hung up in my kitchen

DIY - How to Hack an RC Hovercraft!

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:16:17 -0500

Here’s a really cool DIY on how to hack your own RC hovercraft. It looks pretty simple enough other than the RC parts. Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode “The workings of a hovercraft a

Heavy Equipment Model Plans

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:46:18 -0500

Toys and Joys will help you build cool models of your favorite big tools: bulldozers, forklifts, cranes, and many others. They offer accessory kits which include “some” parts, or you can just get the plans. The models feature plenty o

Announcing the postini gem

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:38:13 -0500

Shortly after a week of training, and a very successful 6 week implementation of the Postini service, I’m proud to announce the “postini” gem. Its still very rough around the edges, and probably pre-alpha, although its working nicel

My Attempt at an Ed Hardy B-day Cake

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:30:00 -0500

For my husband's birthday I attempted to decorate an Ed Hardy-type cake. My husband is covered with tattoos and loves Ed Hardy t-shirts, so I thought a tattoo cake would be pretty macho. I think it's hard to come up with good theme cakes for men.

New 'Projects' Section

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:23:41 -0500

The Projects page on my site has been under 'development' for quite some time now. Actually, it was more neglected than 'under development'. Well, I'm pleased to announce that it IS actually under development and nearing completion. Several projects

casa tóló by álvaro leite siza vieira

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:33:15 -0500

I design buildings for a living, and has recently struck me that my portfolio consists of zero projects that are more exclusively my own. Couple this with my mother’s move to the west coast, my growing family’s need for more space, and th

The Twitter Fail Whale Pale Ale Contest

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:48:29 -0500

Tripped over this contest in my feeds from tweethunt.org , the competition is to design a Fail Whale Pale Ale label for the mythical brew, here’s how it all got started; I noticed a reference the other day in someone’s tweetstream to the

Arduino - EEPROM - Integer Read / Write functions

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:07:14 -0500

Good afternoon, I coded 2 functions this morning to read and write 2 bytes integers to and from the arduino’s eeprom since the standard library (EEPROM.h) was only offering read / write functions for bytes. See attached source code here: EEPROM

Experimental Motion Reel

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:20:17 -0500

We finally found some time to wrap an experimental motion reel we've been working on for several months now.

DIY - How to Make your own Balance Board!

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:37:22 -0500

If you skateboard, snowboard, surf, or do any other board sports, you will know the value of having your own balance board in your home to practice. Besides practicing your balance, the Balance Board can give you toned calves, thighs, and a great way

Tri-Color RGB Led Pinout

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:34:47 -0500

Here is a picture of a common tri-color (red, green, blue) led: (click to enlarge) In the following example: (click to enlarge) +5 volts is applied on pin 2 of the led (the longest one) and ground is applied on Red (pin 1), Green (pin 4), Blue (pin

how to: Generating XML from PHP

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:30:05 -0500

I had to do a small REST application on a project recently and i wanted to find a small easy way of returning the response in XML. After a little searching find this rather old post ( but just what i was looking for ) on Simon Willison’s Weblog. I

Framing on Slab: Use a Separate Pressure Treated Bottom Board

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:00:06 -0500

Installing framing members on a slab requires use of a pressure treated bottom board to avoid wood rot. Concrete slabs will wick moisture between the underlying dirt base and the wood members sitting on top of the slab. If untreated wood is used

Happy Birthday to Me.

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:35:07 -0500

One more trip around the sun. You might imagine that I don’t have any pictures of that. As for the topic of this blog… I haven’t posted much this summer because it’s been oddly unsatisfying out there this year. It is August

Current projects

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:05:35 -0500

Here’s a list of stuff I’m currently working on. PIRETS 2.0 My first big project when I joined Precision Intermedia was that of a real estate company, Benchmark Realty. They wanted to have searchable real estate listings on their site.