Pummer chip

Soldering the bi-core chip together....

caps ondiode on

Pummer beginnings

After many procrastinations, it's time to make a pummer. Using MAKE magazine and BEAM resources, my breadboard pummer works.  Made several changes to the capacitors to get a good "pummmm"

Arduino proto shield

Great tutorial on the protoshield from sparkfun at atomicsalad

Long Time Coming

Been working on BASIC Stamp ideas and haven't updated for a while.  Even thought the stamp is working well, I am going to transition to the Arduino.  Like the open source, cost, and floating point math.  Will still use the BASIC Stamp for several projects but will develop new projects on the Arduino.

Salvaging parts from HP Inkjet

In the BEAM vein, salvaging parts from the defunct inkjet board

Cool BEAM projects

Incredible BEAM bots and using gold cap capacitors make small and wonderful bots

BEAM bots in Houston by Ian Bernstein 

Our Earth is wounded

Our earth is wounded.

Her oceans and lakes are sick; her rivers are like running sores; The air is filled with subtle posions. And the oily smoke of countless hellish fires blackens the sun. Men and women, scattered from homeland, family, friends, wander desolate and uncertain, scorched by a toxic sun...
In this desert of frightened, blind uncertainty, some take refuge in the pursuit of power. Some become manipulators of illusion and deceit.
If wisdom and harmony still dwell in this world, as other than a dream lost in an unopened book, they are hidden in our heartbeat.
And it is from our hearts that we cry out. We cry out and our voices are the single voice of this wounded earth. Our cries are a great wind across the earth."

"The Warrior Song of King Gesar",
by Douglas J Penick - 1996