mkanoap [INSTRUCTABLES] http://www.instructables.com Member Feed Tue, 21 May 2013 19:18:00 PDT BLOX v1.01 Growing up with halloween http://www.instructables.com/id/Growing-up-with-halloween/ /files/deriv/FOG/8TRA/GU7F3ELZ/FOG8TRAGU7F3ELZ.SQUARE2.jpg /files/deriv/FOG/8TRA/GU7F3ELZ/FOG8TRAGU7F3ELZ.SQUARE.jpg /files/deriv/FOG/8TRA/GU7F3ELZ/FOG8TRAGU7F3ELZ.SMALL.jpg E7OVC82GU9KADK4 mkanoap A collection of costumes our son has had over the years. Halloween is the best holiday and homemade costumes are always to be preferred. He usually (except for the batman years) wants something obscure and/or not commercially available anyway. This is an assortment of the ones he has worn. From lef...
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Continue Reading »]]> play Fri, 4 Nov 2011 19:30:03 PDT Growing-up-with-halloween Build an electronic polyhedral die http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-an-electronic-polyhedral-die/
Build an electronic polyhedral die - More DIY How To Projects]]> /files/deriv/FMS/Y8K4/GTLTN5VV/FMSY8K4GTLTN5VV.SQUARE2.jpg /files/deriv/FMS/Y8K4/GTLTN5VV/FMSY8K4GTLTN5VV.SQUARE.jpg /files/deriv/FMS/Y8K4/GTLTN5VV/FMSY8K4GTLTN5VV.SMALL.jpg EPITVL2GTB9PM2X mkanoap Dice are fun. Polyhedral dice used in D & D are even more fun, particularly in big handfuls of different sizes. But a handful isn't always practical. Ever since I saw the dragon bone electronic die wand advertised in the back pages of Dragon magazine when I was a kid, I wanted an electronic device ...
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Continue Reading »]]> technology Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:00:03 PST Build-an-electronic-polyhedral-die Build an electronic score keeper/storage box http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-an-electronic-score-keeperstorage-box/
Build an electronic score keeper/storage box - More DIY How To Projects]]> /files/deriv/FKE/71US/GSLEWO3Q/FKE71USGSLEWO3Q.SQUARE2.jpg /files/deriv/FKE/71US/GSLEWO3Q/FKE71USGSLEWO3Q.SQUARE.jpg /files/deriv/FKE/71US/GSLEWO3Q/FKE71USGSLEWO3Q.SMALL.jpg EB2VNF0GSMZ71O6 mkanoap The instruction manual for each of the MANY munchkin series of card games always includes a phrase like "you will need a 10 sided die for each player or some other device to keep score." 10 sided dice are not hard to find in my house, but I took this as a challenge to make my own device to keep...
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Continue Reading »]]> technology Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:30:04 PDT Build-an-electronic-score-keeperstorage-box Arduino stoplight web server http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-stoplight-web-server/
Arduino stoplight web server - More DIY How To Projects]]> /files/deriv/FVW/7FIZ/GSUT13PG/FVW7FIZGSUT13PG.SQUARE2.jpg /files/deriv/FVW/7FIZ/GSUT13PG/FVW7FIZGSUT13PG.SQUARE.jpg /files/deriv/FVW/7FIZ/GSUT13PG/FVW7FIZGSUT13PG.SMALL.jpg ETQV1HGGLEX2FTF mkanoap At the place I work, we use xymon to monitor of our servers. All of the services monitored are important, but we wanted a separate indicator to simply show the overall health of the most critical systems. Furthermore, we came up with the following criteria: We wanted this visible to everyone wh...
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Continue Reading »]]> technology Thu, 3 May 2012 07:30:03 PDT Arduino-stoplight-web-server Make a portable barcode scanner with an arduino and a cuecat http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-portable-barcode-scanner-with-an-arduino-an/
Make a portable barcode scanner with an arduino and a cuecat - More DIY How To Projects]]> /files/deriv/FEA/JYVG/G56ZQJEA/FEAJYVGG56ZQJEA.SQUARE2.jpg /files/deriv/FEA/JYVG/G56ZQJEA/FEAJYVGG56ZQJEA.SQUARE.jpg /files/deriv/FEA/JYVG/G56ZQJEA/FEAJYVGG56ZQJEA.SMALL.jpg EFXUIEBG58TBXVW mkanoap Around the turn of the century, there was a company whose business model included giving away free barcode scanners that emulate keyboards.    A relatively easy mod to these cuecat scanners removed the encryption and made them suitable for scanning the barcodes on books and the like. One thing that...
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