Ah, at last! BEHOLD — the Laundry-Done-Inator! My greatest achievement since the Chicken-Replace-Inator, and arguably more useful, though I stand by the chickens. You see, it all started on a dark and stormy Tuesday. I had left my lab coat in the wash — a critical error — and completely forgot about it for THREE […]
So we’ve decided to fund our quest for world domination by getting a booth at the Salt Lake Comic Con in September. No, it’s not just a ploy to be able to meet Adam West in person – you know inators don’t pay for themselves! Anyways, we’ve been working on these great little Steampunk conversions […]
After working out some kinks with the Borduinoinator and the Arduino USB Serial Light Adapter (hint: hit the reset button right before uploading your sketch), I decided it was time to build a more permanent model. Following a pretty good instructable, I was able to knock this out in no time. And it worked on […]
So, my crystals came from Amazon today, and I rewired the Boarduinoinator using instructions from the Arduino site. Man, was it a lot easier than my last attempt. Now you can see the first wiring on the left – it’s kind of a spaghetti mess with the really long cables connecting everything. On the right […]
So, I’ve been digging working at the Transistor Hackerspace. It’s got a lot of knowledgeable people who know a lot more about electronics and programming than I do. However, it’s a little farther from home and work (about 15-20 minutes each) than would allow me to pop in and work on a project when I […]
Sheesh – enough with the chickens already, you’d think I was writing a farm blog here or something. Anyways, my main goal for the year is to build a robot army to take over the tri-state area. I had some great success with my prototype, but I was using off the shelf Arduinos, and those […]
So, I got really tired of cleaning the chickens’ water about 100 times a day. They sure are fowl creatures sometimes. Anyways, I decided to make some Chicken Waterinators that they couldn’t kick full of bedding as soon as I put them in the brooder. I bought a 50 pack of chicken nipples from Amazon.com, […]
Behold, the power of my Cable Organizator. No longer will i buy cables that I already own! Now, I’m trying to remember why I have a bin labeled “wireless”, because this is an inator for storing wires, so why would I need wireless wires? I need to keep better notes when working on these projects…
Some of the most classic evil is breaking law, and I’m working evil like crazy this spring. Stupid Danville outlawed raising chickens unless you’re on a gazillion-acre farm. Probably because raising chickens was one of the few things I was better at than my brother when we were growing up in Drusselstein. Anyways, I decided […]