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Nearly a full 9 years ago, my darling sprout Sylvia embarked on a journey to find herself. 8 years and 7 months later, she's still looking, but just between you and me, I think she's got a good start. If not, at least I think she's pointed in the right direction.

Was browsing some family photos.. and suddenly noticed a picture of my son when he was 1 year old. Wow. Dead ringer.

My dad let me play with his collection of connectors! It's so cool.. there's shiny ones and RGB ones.. and my dad says he likes the B N C ones too..

I made this for him, and wanted to post it too. It's me and him with a heart.

Thanks dad!

"The SS Philly comin' in to port!"

I was drawing on, what is the thing called? My daddy says it's a wacom tablet he got from his dad. Anyways...

I was thinking about halloween a while ago, and I thought about Vampires, and tricking a real person into drinking a blood drink. But instead of drawing a vampire and a person, one paying, one giving, I instead did a poster.

Though I've been waxing high on lost foam casting for some time, I've always revered and looked up to a "higher level" of aluminum casting, green sand split casting. The following recounts my adventure therein.

Hi everybody! It's been forever since I had a post, so my dad finally got me to make one. It's Halloween! I wanted to do a Halloween post because I felt like it needed a little bit of a changeup.

Not that anyone should give a flying terd at this point, I took an hour, and a little spit and chewing gum, and mangled together a quick wiki project site for µCAI!

http://ucai.tn42.com

Right now, it's just my notes for how it could work, but I'll be padding out the pages to get the basics down, shorten the main page, and then sending the link off to some smart people on twitter to see if anyone is interested.

Ok, so.. maybe I'm crazy but... ever since my initial foray into Micro-controllers, so little emphasis is kept on the actual building when it comes to "moving" bots. On the beloved arduino, all it takes is a single open source shield (or less) to start making a chassis move, and right out of the box you can receive and measure various sensors and inputs.

Alright, not to make an overly big deal out of this, but after a casual comment on an excellent Mythbusters interview over on Popular Mechanics, and a tweet over to it's author, the fabulous Erin McCarthy, she actually replied to me. Not only that, she then proceeded to offer me the guest edited Mythbusters issue I'd missed. No freakin' way!