I am whupped. This weekend was spent mostly in the garage. There are new shelves on the walls replacing the craptacular free standing metal and MDF shelving I had before. It’s wire shelving that has standards which hang from a top rail like the Elfa stuff they sell at the container store though it has [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Nov 12
Twinkle
I wanted to get an idea of how much room I had to work with inside the stars. Using the pattern from mathworld I made a small stellated dodecahedron with the “unit pentagrammic edge length” roughly 0.7″ which was what would fit on a sheet of paper. According to maths this makes the star diameter [...]
Nov 12
Field of Light
One of the sites I’ve been reading recently thanks to boingboing is dezeen. They update fairly frequently and usually have some neat architecture or design thing to tickle the brain. Today there was an article about a lighting art installation called Field of Light by English artist and lighting designer Bruce Munroe. Here are two [...]
Nov 11
Heartbeats
There’s this ad you may have seen. In the time of the internet this is undoubtedly so old it is contemporary with dinosaurs but I’m going to indulge myself for a bit. Sony Bravia Color Ad The song in it is called heartbeats and was written by a band called “The Knife” the video for [...]
Nov 11
LED test board v1.1
This is the revised LED test board I sent to BatchPCB. It has a few minor improvements beyond the fixed slug connections. According to SparkFun’s PCB design guide traces that will carry up to 500mA should have 16 mil traces so I made sure all of mine were 16 mil. I also added labels for [...]