Daily Archives Tuesday, January 2007

Motors and voltages.

How much energy could be gathered from the everday open-and-closing activities of doors on the ITP floor — without people having to change their daily routines one bit?
This is the “stepper” we borrowed at first.  Only problem — not a stepper.  It’s a DC motor.  Got some nifty voltages out of it, and managed to [...]

Timetelling for the blind - Pt. II

So the concept is progressing: I’m making a clock for the blind and not-so-blind. I’ve started (and at this point shoud be almost finished with) a hacky-but-functional mockup of a timepiece that can be used by those with visual impairments. The basic concept is that it works like a pin screen — pins [...]

File under: birthdays are getting depressing

My birthday was this past weekend.  Had a nice lil’ celebration, ate wonderful foods and napped.  Rocked out at HiFi for the second time in as many days (enough of that for a while, thankyouverymuch).  Talked to the fam and the friends in far-off lands.  A really nice weekend, in all.
But.
My sister, for my birthday, [...]