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Poking my sausage like fingers into the web since 1997

Maker Projects – Alex’s Mobile

Written by Bob on 17th Jan 2010 | Development, Hacking, Maker, hardware

I’ve added a new section to my projects pages, and put a page in place for the baby mobile I’m creating for Alex.
I’ve back dated a load of the updates, as I’d been meaning to post blog entries about the work, but hadn’t gotten round to it.
So far I have a 3d design worked out [...]

Contraptor Shipped!

Written by Bob on 13th Jan 2010 | Hacking, Maker

I got word from the Contraptor team the other day.
My Contraptor kit has been shipped, and should be with me shortly.
The team had some issues with the initial run of kits, so I’m getting a Beta set, and they will ship me a corrected version, when they get the fabrication issues sorted out, at their [...]

Facebook performance woes

Written by Bob on 10th Dec 2009 | Development, Yahoo!

Today Facebook launched their new privacy settings and forced all their users to update their settings.
We noticed at Yahoo! that we were started to get lots of timeouts from Facebook’s APIs that we use on the Yahoo! homepage.
I’ve not heard anything official from Facebook yet, so this next part is all speculation.
I suspect that as [...]

TGIMBOEJ Part 3

Written by Bob on 10th Dec 2009 | Hacking, Maker

TGIMBOEJ has left the building.
It has been posted on to a fellow hacker in Kent.
In the end I added quite a lot of stuff to the box. Amongst other things a 6MP CCD from an old Fujitsu S20 pro camera, a bunch of motors from CD-ROM and floppy drives and a few discreet ICs
Soon I [...]

TGIMBOEJ Part 2

Written by Bob on 03rd Dec 2009 | Hacking, Maker

It has landed.
There is some neat stuff in the box and I’ll been sending it on shortly. I have a bunch of junk to add, and here are the photos.
I’ve removed a board that contained a load of backlit LCD buttons, probably to be integrated into the chest of a robot of the as anĀ  [...]

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