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From the new-gadgets department:
In today’s issue:
* New gadget
* New wheels
* Two wheels
* Two ×15 pounds, to go
(this is gonna be a LOONG blog entry, but if you get fast the pirst one, it goes by quicker. And if you get to the end, I’ll explain why the moon at the top of the page […]

From the carputer department:
Forgive me AZROLB for I have slacked.
It’s been twenty-two days since my last update.
Where have I been for the last 22 days?
Working on TruxII! What is TruxII?

When my team and I did the DARPA Grand Challenge our vehicle had these computers. They’re ideal for cars since the CPU and mainboard […]

From the electronics department:
If you haven’t read Office Love, then you don’t know that once upon a time I had an office and now I’m in a cubicle pit.
Let me tell you a little bit about my job. I do technical support, which means I talk on the phone a lot. If you’ve […]

From the geekatroid department:
It works! Finally! Happy happy joy joy! All that time and money and effort I’ve put into this thing is not for naught!

Here’s the Christmas light controller I’ve been working on for about a week. Wassit do? In case you haven’t been playing along (naughty!) it turns […]

From the no-updates department:
Craptastique! Me no bloggum long time!
What’s up lately?
Christmas light project
There’s an unwritten rule where if you own a house you have to put up Christmas lights. There’s an unwritten rider on that rule where if you own a house and you’re a geek you have to spend lots of money […]

From the gadgets-R-us department:
Awright! 50th post!!!1! I’ve been writing this crap for months now! And to the best of my knowledge, no human reader has keeled over and died, nor experienced their stomach hurling violently, nor had their eyes roll back into their heads nor jump right out of their sockets in […]

From the pedal-power department:
Blogging is still as infrequent as ever, but my excuse for the time being is my geeky GPS route study project, which is proceeding well on the website front (lots of diagrams and thinking about waypoints and decision flowcharts and stuff), and on the taking up all my free time front, but […]

From the something-new department:
OK, so I was driving home today, and traffic just sucked! First of all, I totally went the wrong way, ’cause yesterday I went shopping in downtown Ottawa so I took a different route home, and today I took yesterday’s route instead of my normal way home ’cause my brain was […]

From the yeah-yeah-I-know-long-time-no-blog-again department:
I *will* get the hang of this blog-more-than-once-a-week thing. I know. I’ll blame it on the clocks-roll-back thing. Yeah. I didn’t blog all this week ’cause… uh, ’cause I *lost* an hour! Yeah.
Yeah, that’s it.
OK, so when we last heard from our intrepid hero who doesn’t know how to sit down and […]

From the who-needs-a-driver? department:
Well, the weekend is almost over and tomorrow dawns a new day and a new adventure: autonomous vehicle racing!
I’m part of a team of people who’ve written some software and modified a truck to drive autonomously. We’re competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005, where 40 teams, picked from well over […]