Category: Projects

  • Microprocessor fun

    Microprocessor fun

    Last winter as I wondered through the Internet, I stumbled upon The Society of Robots.  This website had gobs of information on building little robots and looked like fun.  As I read more I found their $50 dollar robot project and decided to try it.  I took an old iPhone box and used that as the body.…

  • VOX Scanner or Radio Recorder for Linux

    VOX Scanner or Radio Recorder for Linux

    We used to have a scanner recording program that ran on a dedicated Windows 98 machine.  It worked reasonably well, but wasn’t perfect (aside from the fact that it ran on Windows 98).  I found something that will work well as a replacement, it’s called sox (http://sox.sourceforge.net/sox.html).  A simple one line command records and separates…

  • Wow been busy

    So we’ve had a bunch of things going on here. Kids and School obviously, but we have also been camper shopping. We only have a 1/2 ton truck so we’re a bit limited as to what we can pull. We settled on a Rockwood 8316SS. We’re currently in final negotiations and things look good. As…