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SparkFun Grocery Scanner
This one isn't one of my projects, but it was cool enough to share. My wife sent me this picture of the inside of a grocery scanner that was set up at the
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Let's Play Kerbal!
My brother and I love to play video and computer games together. Usually it's Halo, Sins of a Solar Empire, or more recently Kerbal Space Program. Tonight we
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Blue Screen of Death At the Pump
This was just too funny. Apparently these additive fuel systems are running Windows. I don't know of any other OS that has the Blue Screen of Death.
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Toothless Wings
Nothing much to this costume. I just cut up a black fleece blanket into the general shape of Toothless's wings, then used a sewing machine to sew the ridges.
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Floodlight on Tripod
I recently acquired an LED floodlight to help shed some light on my projects. I found that it works best when mounted up high.
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Free Xbox Games with Gold Workaround
EDIT: Now you can start building your Xbox One games library from your Xbox 360. Just go to "Games with Gold" from the Gold tile on Home. For a while now
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My First Car
1980 Mercedes-Benz 300D It was one of those cars you buy from your parents because you don't have any money. Since it was such an old car, it was a collector's item. If only it had been in mint condition, I could have sold or traded it for half the price of a new car. Aside from that, I was fixing this car every week for the first two months I owned it. I really didn't know much about auto repair other than what I learned in my small-engines class in high school. But to me, mechanical systems have a sense of order, and I can generally figure things out. It just takes me longer than someone who has the know-how. Most of the repairs were relatively small, such as leaking vacuum lines and starter problems, among other things. Eventually, it was able to go for a month or two...
