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The Exorcist: The Exorcist, 1973 No discussion of Scary Movies can even get past the first page without at least a promise to talk about William Friedkin’s classic, The Exorcist, based on the novel by William Peter Blatty. For the purposes of this discussion, I am talking about the original, theatrical version released in . . . → Read More: The Exorcist: Still terrifying after all these years… Something awful has happened to the Robomower! In an attempt to start getting my side yard under control for an upcoming patio project, the bot got high-centered on a dirt bump. The wheels were spinning frantically in a valiant attempt to un-stick themselves, but succeeded only in churning up a gigantic cloud of dust. . . . → Read More: Robomower part 11 – On motors and their control… (An Instructable of this post has just been featured on the home page of Instructables.com!) Do you grow carnivorous plants outdoors? If you live in an area where this works, then why not set them up on their own bog? This is how they grow in the wild, so they’ll feel right at home, . . . → Read More: Build a bog for carnivorous plants! After some careful consideration, I’ve decided to just go ahead and start building something. I’ve got most of the stuff around, so If I have a serious change of heart, I’ll toss it and start over. After finding a couple of clamp lamps left over from a precious model railroading project that I abandoned, . . . → Read More: Book Scanner 2: Basic design elements… For the last several years I’ve been struggling with finding a method to get printed material into digital form. Of course, like everyone else, I’d much rather read books and magazines in their original paper format. That’s great, until you start spending more than a dozen days a month on the road. When that . . . → Read More: Book Scanner 1: Define the mission. It has now all come together! One last trip to radio shack to get some connectors, heating up the soldering gun to splice together some 24 volt wires and some ground wires, applying some Velcro, a few more wood screws, and I’ve got a lawn mower! After the successful test of the mower . . . → Read More: Robomower Part 10: It all comes together! This is the home stretch! The robot moves, it has a lawn mowing attachment hanging beneath it, and if I go out and actually hook the wires from the mower motors to the bot’s batteries, it will actually mow the lawn. Trouble is, since it’s an electric mower, I really want to be able . . . → Read More: Robomower Part 9: Turning on the mower attachment. This has been a long time coming. Over the last couple of years, it turns out that I have seen an increase in the time I have available to devote to projects that involve building things. I’m not entirely sure how this came to be, but I’m sure not going to raise a serious . . . → Read More: The CNC table – First thoughts and musings… Back in 1995, before anyone started “Re-imagining”, “Re-booting”, or just plain “Re-Making” the great Science Fiction classics, when the only really new and interesting S.F. shows were on the inconsistent Sci Fi Channel, Fox Television produced a wonderful, and now almost forgotten program, Space: Above and Beyond. In it’s one season, SAAB covered a . . . → Read More: Space: Above and Beyond Mrs. Zennmaster has just given me some very bad news: Roots Brewing Company, of Portland, OR, is no more. The story, which came from one of the local TV channel’s websites, was that the economy and the cool spring weather had been the final straws for this excellent brewery. My first encounter with Roots, . . . → Read More: Roots Brewing Company, Portland, Oregon, R.I.P. |
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