Tech n Dork

Saturday, October 22, 2011

My trip to Thailand

Heres an ACTION SHOT of me in Thailand. This was a group ATV trip throught the jungle, luckily i was first in line, and got to test weather i could make it through some unexpected rushing water... some people werent as fortunate to make it through. Ride or die!
YOU should go visit Thailand, if only once in your life. it is an amazing experience and the people are just amazing. I'm planning a return trip soon, as soon as possible actually. You can live there pretty comfortable on 150-200 dollars a week since everything is so inexpensive. Anyway, see you there!

Friday, October 21, 2011

CUBE CRAFT!

Check out the pattern here

Build your own friend! who needs real ones anyway.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Dubstep + xbox 360 kinect

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Where to find stepper motors

Stepper motors can be found in almost any piece of electro-mechanical equipment. It can be pulled from old electronic equipment such as floppy drives, dot-matrix printers. Most of the stepper motors in Ritchie street is pulled from printers and the most common step angle you could find is 1.8deg and 7.5deg which is of permanent magnet type. Look for "unipolar" or "4-coil" or "4-phase" motor (they all mean the same thing) with 5 or 6 or 8 wires. Avoid "bipolar" motors because they require an entirely different control scheme. The require two phases to control them and have four wires.
Operating voltage of 12V is convenient for robotics projects. Look for motors with a coil current of 250mA or less (coil resistance of 48ohms or more for a 12V motor <-> V=IR). Higher currents do give higher torque, but will also drain your battery faster. Another key specification is the holding torque which is how much torque the motor can resist when energized.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Install ISO into a VM

I cant tell you how many times this article has saved me.
http://hackaday.com/2005/10/24/how-to-vmware-player-modification/

hope that helps someone!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

My Time Away & My Data Gone

I have been away lately due to my OLD 80gb ide hard drive disk deciding to crash. I have some experience with repairing file systems and disks, I even put it in the freezer to try and save something off the disk.
Alas to no avail, the terrible old monster was dead. Luckily i store all my movies, pictures, and music on my brand spanking new 1TB drive i recently bought. Sadly i did not do this with any of my software, so in the past weeks i have been rebuilding what i like to call "My Command Center/Battle Station" (depending on mood).
On the bright side of this catastrophe i have upgraded my OS drive to a 500GB Sata drive. I have partitioned it accordingly to my needs. I have setup backup services, and am planning on buying another drive to function as a mirror in case this ever happens again.
I sincerely apologize to you guys for not posting anything for a while or checking out your blogs.
Can we still be friends? :P

Anyway here is a wallpaper I find appropriate to convey how i felt that terrible day.

My Summer Is Comming! Whats yours like?

This summer I'm going to have a blast, I have a 4 day music festival I'm attending, and later in June ill be visiting Thailand for 3 weeks backpacking.
Heres some video of prior years at the festival

Check out the Festival, its an absurd amount of various artists and in general a gravy time ;) .
http://www.summercampfestival.com/
The absurd amounts of artists include:

The Thailand trip is still being planned, I'll update the itinerary as it comes up.

What are YOU doing this summer?