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Archive for April 2007

Rocket Car

In working on the autonomous car project, my friend “Router” Dave and I decided that the R/C Car was not going nearly fast enough (even with the upgraded motor and gearing). How on earth would we fix this? Luckily, I had a few “A” size Estes rocket engines in a box in my closet. After [...]

banksy in chico?

This morning I was walking through the breezway at the Meriam Library, and saw this tagged on the ground next to one of the trash cans: It was a striking resemblance of popular British graffiti artist Banksy, namely something like this photo from hometownzero’s flickr page. I was walking through the parking structure and saw [...]

the autonomous car project

Several years ago, when I was in high school, I was into hobby electronics. I loved building circuits, breaking stuff to see how it worked, and I even started to build my own robots. (don’t mind the tripod site… it’s pretty old!) I never graduated past the BASIC Stamp microcontroller when I abandoned the hobby [...]

gmail on campus

As a CSU, Chico student, I can safely say that I really hate our on-campus email (Wildcat mail?) Every teacher says it’s the “official” method of communication on campus; if a test date is changed, they expect us to check our email to find out. Our email, which is constantly bombarded by spam that is [...]

joost beta

I received access to a beta account with Joost yesterday, which I was pretty excited about. Joost (formerly codenamed “The Venice Project”) is a peer to peer internet TV application. I think it’s a great idea and it’s fairly well executed. Here’s some screenshots to get an idea for the program. The idea is to [...]