Monthly Archives: June 2012

Windpower with PVC pipe and bicycle wheels

Posted on June 8, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice build write-up of a vertical windpower with common parts… http://www.instructables.com/id/vertical-wind-power/

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Large home-brew CNC

Posted on June 8, 2012 by robertwilkie

A neat instructable on how to build a rather large CNC for foamboard. http://www.instructables.com/id/CNC-machine-for-shaping-large-pieces-of-polystyren/  

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A little robot for TI’s MSP 430 processor

Posted on June 7, 2012 by robertwilkie

A small tank robot platform for the MSP430 developer board.  Its a nice cheap ($5 for the board and cpu) controller.  I may have to look at this again in the future. http://longhornengineer.com/robotics/msprobot/  

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Scary Security Story

Posted on June 7, 2012 by robertwilkie

A bit of a scary story for a company that tried to protect itself (2 factor authentication, follow-up confirmation calls) but still lost out in the end (bank failed to do some of the initial confirmation calls). http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/05/house-committee-to-probe-e-banking-heists/#more-15245    

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Simple Arduino nursery

Posted on June 7, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice write-up on a small internal seed starting nursery with an arduino for the controller to automate everything. http://www.inventgeek.com/2012-Projects/Automated-Nursery/OverView.aspx  

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How to deal with annoying loud neighbors

Posted on June 7, 2012 by robertwilkie

The video is pretty funny in this one.  Basically he built a sensor that when the nieghbors crank up the music, it auto0-detects it and plays its own annoying music.  Uses an arduino to controller everything. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Deal-with-Noisy-Neighbors/

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Story of someone that was Unemployed from XRX

Posted on June 6, 2012 by robertwilkie

Story about a sales rep in Xerox that spent 2 years looking for a job after being laid off. Only thing that surprised me is the “rep” made 100K a year at Xerox (how much do these sales guys make?).  … Continue reading →

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Nice Blurb for Xerox’s CEO

Posted on June 6, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice article covering Xerox’s Ursula Burns, but…it was Anne Muclcahy that turned Xerox around.  Not Ursula. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/29/investopedia82514.DTL

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Xerox Stock Study

Posted on June 6, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting fin. Study on Xerox…basically the biggest problem is Xerox has allot of debt that can be very scary for an investor. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/06/04/lets-see-if-xeroxs-growth-is-for-real/

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Blue Ray laser CNC

Posted on June 6, 2012 by robertwilkie

I am more impressed with this as to how it can be used to mark wood.  I don’t think cutting would be a good idea with it right now thought. http://41j.com/blog/2012/06/bluray-laser-cnc-version-0-2/

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