Mantis shrimp – might not like living in your aquarium

February 22, 2006 Mike S 3 Comments

This is one sea creature that will do something about being contained in a aquarium if they don’t like it!
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Electronics, Hardware

Homebrew microcontroller based hard drive LED bar graph

February 19, 2006 Mike S 44 Comments

This is a PIC microcontroller project I did some time ago which turns my computer’s hard drive LED into a more interesting 10 LED bargraph display.
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Hardware, Technology

Photo documentary of a Tivo Series 1 drive upgrade

February 17, 2006 Mike S 1 Comment

These photos document the hard drive upgrade I did to my factory-dual-drive Series 1 Tivo.
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Olympics of another kind: lock picking

February 15, 2006 Mike S 1 Comment

Are you not into traditional sports? Also not into extreme sports? Perhaps something like lock-picking is more your style.
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Photos of a Volvo XC90 built of Legos in Vail

February 14, 2006 Mike S Leave a comment

Here are a few photos of a Lego Volvo XC90 I took in Vail.
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