Blog Theme / Roll update

March 7, 2013 in Blog 365

 

Since the last post I’ve:

* Bought a house
* Increased the size of the hackerspace to 8000 square feet
* Created a company to make ARM motherboards
* Upgraded the ArduPilot board to use an ARM processor

There’s a lot going on! Maybe I should, you know, blog about it or something.

*laugh*

Gnocchi and fun stuff…

October 19, 2011 in Random Thoughts

IMG_1156I made some awesome gnocci the other day (Paprika/Oregano).
Last night five people joined the hackerspace.
I have over 3500 followers in Google+.

Amazing things are happening in my life.

Sometimes, and more than just occassionally:

Life. Is. Good.

My house smells of Zatarans…

July 31, 2011 in 10 words a day, Food

crawfish_boilOh lovey Zatarans, how I love thee … with shrimp. The house smells like shrimp boil, and I’m huuuungry.

Hmm .. can’t think of anything today…

July 30, 2011 in 10 words a day, Random Thoughts

Today’s words are:

Turlingdrome
Fascinate
Maudlin
Fantastic
Thrice
Majestic
Quart
Appellation
Bucolic
Fortuitous

Wanderlust…

July 27, 2011 in 10 words a day, Random Thoughts

Today, I want to be everywhere, anywhere but right here. Wanderlust! Well at least I know next week I’ll be in Las Vegas.

I just signed a $20k lease…

July 26, 2011 in 10 words a day, HackerSpace, Tech

Hooboy. I just signed a $20k lease for a laser cutter at the hackerspace. This is ‘heavy’

Since we’re on a homopolar motor kick…

July 25, 2011 in 10 words a day, Tech

Okay, it’s Monday and I *DO* feel better. This evening I’ll be having fun at Microcontroller Monday at the hackerspace, but for now, I’m still on a homopolar (faraday) motor kick.

This is an example of a homopolar generator. High current! It’s why flywheel homopolar generators are used to store energy from the Grid:

While I’m sick .. more faraday motors!

July 24, 2011 in 10 words a day, Tech

You can, by changing resistance, build a primitive “speed control” for a faraday motor:

A bit of bread, some soup and thou

July 23, 2011 in 10 words a day, Health

 

So, fever is gone, getting better.   Not a LOT better, but better.  The flu really takes it out of you.. where “it” is anything you ate, energy, and patience…

 

flu, part 2

July 22, 2011 in 10 words a day, Health

You know that coughing, chills, sweaty, porcelain worshipping kind of night you get when you have the flu?  Yep.  that one…

We’re in the 21st century.  Forget flying cars.  I want a cure for the flu!