Have recently acquiried a nice stepper motor from Jameco Electronics. It is a small motor, less than 2″x2″x2″, but still has substantial torque. I will get into more Arduino + Circuits + Electro-Mechanical detail soon, but for the moment, I wished to share a couple of screen-shots of the 3D model and the actual parts [...]
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Using Solidworks to design Stepper Motor Assembly (1)
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Perspective, Photography, Projects, Technique, tagged Aluminum, Bearings, Bushings, CAD, Design, Engineering, Macro Photography, Mechanical Engineering, Shafts, SolidWorks, Stepper Motors on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Rubber Band Gun Perspective?
Posted in Perspective, tagged Links, Rubber Band Gun, Rubber Band Gun Perspective on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look at this FeedBurner feed — lots of info on rubber band guns! View, Enjoy, and Share. http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubberBandGunPerspective
Market Fresh … Chocolate?
Posted in Fun, Life, Perspective, tagged Chocolate, Ironic, Photography, Walmart on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
@ Altoona Walmart
100 Years of IBM: a fascinating video
Posted in Interesting, Perspective, World Issues, tagged 100 Years, Century, IBM, Old People, People, World, Young People on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Home School Software: Inventory Tracking
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Life, Perspective, Projects, Software, tagged Home School, Home School Software, Household Inventory, Inventory, Math, Organization on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ever lose track of how much flour, sugar, milk, eggs, soap, razors, spices, motor oil, filters, nails, screws, glue, paper, staples, etc… you have on hand? Ever shop based on hunger, rather than diciplined restocking? Ever want to have an inventory of groceries at your house, so you don’t have to run to the store [...]
Home School Software now supports Images!
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Open Source, Perspective, Projects, Software, Technique, tagged Home Education, Home School, Home School Software, Log, Portfolio, Students, Web Applications on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I got to a great milestone with the homeschool software I discussed here. It now has excellent image support. For every activity, you can attach an unlimited number of images. They are stored in the database with all of the other data, so it’s easy to backup. Also, I am using ImageMagick to resize [...]
Home School Software, Anyone?
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, Life, Perspective, Software, Technique, tagged Database, Home Education, Home School, Log, Organization, Portfolio, Software, Web Apps on January 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
2010-2011 was the first year that we were required by PA law to report our schooling activities to the Altoona Area School district. (simply because our oldest turned 8) Naturally, the topic of Log and portfolio came up needing solved. Having been home educated as a child, I recall the massive effort it took to [...]
Great article on switching from tables to css
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Perspective, Software, Technique, tagged CSS, Design, Hot Design, HTML, Seybold, Tables, Web Development on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is good, especially when you consider the drawings… http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html
Essentials of DNS: understand the basics well
Posted in Interesting, Perspective, System Administration, Technique, tagged Distibuted Systems, DNS, Internet, Network, Perspective, Technology on December 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
DNS stands for “Domain Name Service”. It is the mechanism in which the internet is able to map a name (eg www.sgasoftware.com) to an IP address (eg 12.34.56.78). This writeup is not designed to be 100% technically accurate. Rather, it is designed to give a layman understanding of relevant parts of the DNS system. Much more [...]
Some thoughts on education and school
Posted in Life, Perspective, World Issues, tagged Education, K-12, Learning, Perspective, School, Teaching on November 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A couple of thoughts for thinking about… Perhaps the whole premise of “school” as we know it is incorrect? Learning is focused on K-12, plus an additional 4-8 years of college. Then what? The academics themselves have taken a front row seat. At best, academics should be a tool to learn the things you need [...]
