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  1. LCD screen is working again, I bent a wire and unattached it. I had an idea to develop a talking dog collar after the movie "Up"
  2. The LCD screen was attached to teh controller and worked. But I'll be darned, I bolted the box close and it doesn't work now!
  3. A success. the CheapBot hadn controller is reading its push buttons. Now to mount the LCD and later to program for the radios
  4. Drilling holes for the CheapBot hand controller. Need to mount the antenna and LCD screen.
  5. One origin for cosmic rays has been located. See http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/...
  6. I've started my next N&V column. It will be about the Thermopile Telescope.
  7. I've started a limb sounding experiments based on images. I'll have pictures at my blog, nearsys.blogspot.com
  8. More progress on the CheapBot Radio Hand Controller. I hope to be programming it this weekend.
  9. I'm beginning an article on the thermopile telescope for Nuts and Volts. I'll have some neat charts to go with it.
  10. Putting together a test board of the CheapBot robot controller. I plan to make the antennas in class for my telecomm students.
  11. The Smart Proximity Detector for robotics is just about ready for purchase. It uses a PICAXE-08 to monitor obstacles for robots.
  12. After some thought, I've decided to switch the plastic tubes int he robotic arm to a sheet of Correplast. Let's see how that will work.
  13. I'm testing a new robotic arm design. It uses a metal wire snare to grasp objects. Takes two servos and appears to be strong enough.
  14. Nice Auto Tune video http://bit.ly/MnNJ8
  15. My blog has two of the photos from the last flight. nearys.blogspot.com. I'm also experimenting with a CheapBot robotic arm.
  16. It was a hoax. See http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/...
  17. Newest video was jus posted on YouTube. http://bit.ly/cflQ8
  18. Flew two near spacecraft for universities in Kansas. I'll have photos in my blog before long and at the NearSys website. Nice video.
  19. My students are helping me make a platform for my mobile tracking gear.
  20. We have five BalloonSats from KU going up. Try tracking the mission at map.findu.com/kd4sth-9