Sunday, April 20, 2003

Many OS X users are unaware of the pdf options available to them. It turns out that there are also poorly documented features. 9:43:57 AM     A bit of very random surfing turned up CITC Products - a supplier of special effects hardware and supplies. Bubbles, fog, bio degradable snow ..., bu my favorite has to be the T-Launcher. Why would someone want to shoot tshirts from a canon and why would they pay $1400 for a machine? 6:48:09 AM     Speaking of war and terrorism our Swiss friends have made a combination watch/radiation detector. No doubt someone from CERN with too much time on their hands... 6:13:07 AM     Here is something I haven't seen in a few decades - a beginner's model rocket motor kit. It isn't very sophisticated, but a teenager might learn something. In the late 50s a craze of amateur rocketry swept the country (at least for the sort of kids that ended up at MIT). More than a few were injured or killed in bad accidents that usually involved mixing fuel and making motors. 6:12:54 AM     Some of you play with interfaces between computers and things that move. In looking for some resources this morning I came across a basic, but perhaps useful, primer on stepper motors 6:12:34 AM     I'm sure Dave has a set of Konami Combat tanks. This is the best review of the little R/C models I've seen yet. 6:12:15 AM

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