Monthly Archives: December 2009

My wife got me the advanced arduino starter kit for Flying Spaghetti Monster-mas! I’ve been having a ton of fun playing with this thing and trying to remember how to program . My office is full of blinking LED’s and beeping speakers and swearwords. This thing is great! I can’t wait to buy a dedicated … Continue reading »

I give you: vulcan.troseph.com. The latest addition to my computer collection. She’s no spring chicken but she’s going to have a lot of web hosting power. Specs: 2x Dual core 2.8Ghz Xeon Procs 4Gb ram 750GB raid 10 Ubuntu 8.04 LAMP stack It should be up and running within a couple weeks. Wewt!

This is the chicken door opener prototype I’ve been working on. The idea is the sensor will be mounted to the top and when the sun comes up, the door opens, and frees the birds. The circuit is pretty simple. And stolen from here. I used identical components aside from the LED’s. 4.7k Resistor 2k-100k … Continue reading »