It’s amazing the stresses the human body goes through when you watch it in slow motion.
Author Archives: Carl
Cool electric arc
An electric arc is an electrical breakdown of a gas which produces an ongoing plasma discharge, resulting from a current flowing through normally non-conductive media such as air. As far as I can tell there’s an over-voltage on one of the phases and it’s arcing over the ceramic conductor like it should, until it makes [...]
Steal This Comic
This seems familiar…
Lest we forget
We will remember them If you’re feeling sorry for yourself, then see how you feel after watching what happened a few generations ago in ww1 (not forgetting the other wars, invasions and defenses and ages)…
How Business Works
From Toothpaste For Dinner
Arduino and HD44780 LCD
I’ve just been playing with a new HD44780 4×20 LCD from ebay on the Arduino. As I’m still ‘playing’ I’ve tried to document a kind of breadboard interface for the Arduino to LCD. It should help me to remember how things are setup so I can use it a modular fashion later.
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Arduino and HD44780 LCD v1.0 snippet
/* LCD display with 4 DataPins * ——– * * This is a example in how to use an LCD screen * configured with data transfers over 2 x 4 bits. The example * based on the “LCD Hola example” by DojoDave. * * There are the following pins to be considered: * * – [...]
Money Modification
When was the last time you took a good look at the money in your wallet? You’d be supprised what you might find.
Can handle paper clips, cds, cars…
I couldn’t really understand the hype about destroying expensive shiny toys and random objects with kitchen equipment.
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The killer idea, death by invention
1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design. Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to learn what they’d done to the ozone layer. 260AC: Roman emperor Valerian, after being defeated in battle and captured [...]
