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Jun 172011
 

I sold my soul to Micro$oft and got an Xbox 360 & Kinect last
Christmas. When not working long hours at my day job, I have spent a
lot of time playing Dragon Age and others on the Xbox.

Work on my projects slowed to a crawl, however I did start two new projects.

One was started back last November and it has gone quite slowly. The
other was started around February and almost finished. More details later.

I did take photos as I went along but forgot about them until I got my
camera out for our trip to Maker Faire.
Here is a picture of an art robot from the San Francisco Maker Faire 2011

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K9 and meatballs

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Jul 112010
 

My wife saw a website that described how to take household items and embed them into models of other things.
An example of this is using split peas as rivets on the Dalek I made (Oh and that was her idea).

One day a while ago after a spaghetti and meatballs meal. She held up the empty plastic bottle of spaghetti sauce and said I am going to make something from this.
After some thought she said Steampunk K9.
Out came the glue gun and a bunch of other things and here is the final creation.

Nose buried in an LCD screen

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Mar 242010
 

I have had a quiet time recently. Instead of devouring books like there’s no tomorrow my wife has had her nose stuck in her new ebook reader and now she wants to give a review of it. Review: Ectaco JetBook Lite I had wanted an ebook reader for ages and between waiting for the perfect [...]

Start of Something New

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Aug 282009
 

After spending a lot of July and August configuring computer monitors, I took a look in the workshop and felt I wanted to get back into building something that included microcontrollers. Gort has had a road block since I pulled out his visor. I just have not been happy with the angle of the visor [...]

“All Hail the Cyberking”

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Jul 082009
 
"All Hail the Cyberking"

I have been so busy this year at nights and weekends – sometimes work…(Boo) … sometimes…. Linux (yeah!)….  Sometimes vacations (yeahhhhh!!!). But Vickie has been able to steal some time from her schedule to design herself a little Cyber-coolness.

Maker Faire San Francisco

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Jul 012009
 
Maker Faire San Francisco

So we made our way down to the bay area at the end of May to this year’s Maker Faire. The most impressive display was the (approx) 10ft Tesla coil. I love the way everyone cheers when the Tesla coil finishes. (Worth opening it up in full screen to watch). When you see the things [...]

Newcastle Makerfaire 2009

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Mar 252009
 
Newcastle Makerfaire 2009

Well, we just got back from a quick trip to the UK to visit family. One of our little trips was to go to Newcastle for the weekend to visit the first UK Maker Faire. We saw the dates coincided with our trip and felt it would be fun to make the detour to Newcastle. [...]

The day the earth stood still -A review

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Dec 142008
 

So we went to the movies yesterday and watched – The day the earth stood still – and I figured that we should see it in IMAX. So we paid our extra $3 (x2) and without giving too many spoilers the verdict was it was good. The kid was annoying. There were certain bits left [...]

See inside my head

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Dec 092008
 

With ‘The day the Earth stood still’ about to be released it sort of took the wind out of sails working on Gort. I started work on Gort long before they announced that there would be a movie. I am sure the movie will be a different take on the story. I hope it does [...]

Doctor Who season 4 …Finally!!!!

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Nov 252008
 

My wife and I being good little netizens, do not torrent files. We waited until Doctor Who was finally shown by the CBC. However we’re not stupid, and when the DVD set for S4 was released prior to the last four episodes being shown on the CBC we pre-ordered it and then watched all the [...]

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