Nanotube Sheets

The number of applications (another link) people have already thought of for this is stuff is simply amazing. If there ever was a disruptive technology this certainly seems to be it. I mean where can't you use this stuff. Amazing!
I can remember first reading about buckminster fully's (sp) wounderful invention/discovery of the then called bucky tube in a 1985 issue of Popular Science and thinking this is going to change the world! I just wonder how long it will be until I can buy something using these sheets. At the time I can remember them talking about the buckey balls as the primary intrest and sort of mentioning the the buckey tube almost in passing. Ever since that article it has been the buckey tube on center stage.

Dwight History (My Hometown)

Some pictures of the windmill on the Oghton property and the Oghton home.

You can see some of these same pictures that I took about 9 months ago. Interesting to see how things change.

Some interesting (in my totally unbiased opinion) history about Dwight and the Oghton's can be read here.

As it turns out my mother took piano lessons with Diana Oghton and they played in the same piano recitals.

Ronald Dumsfeld

The man that is in charge of the death and mayhem ensuing in Iraq shows us his roots and where he gained his "from the streets" like diplomacy....



"WEST SIYYYDE!!!!"

My apologies to anyone who might be offended by my assertions that rummy knows anything about the plight of the inner city youth.

1000 years

I have lived 1000 years.

I will live 1000 more

and still know nothing.

Michael Moore adds to the discourse

GameBoy Embedded Development

I read about a wonderful development platform for embedded projects (NewScientist May 1 Pg. 26) based on the Game Boy Advance portable gaming system. The great thing about this platform is the price. For about $70 you can get a device with all this:



2001 Game Boy Advance

Screen size: 240*160 - 2.9"

Screen type: Colour 8 or 16bit

CPU: 32bit ARM7

CPU Clock: 16.78MHz

Video RAM: 96kB

Working RAM: 32k + 256k

Power: 2AA - 80mA

Sound: 4ch stereo + 2pcm

Keys: 6 + Control pad

Link Port: <2MHz, Bootloader

Cartarige slot: 3V multiplexed bus



It is great to have this many features and power but figuring out how to get a development system based on the GBA might seem like a lot of work that would outweigh the benefits of this cheep hardware. However, for about $160 this work has already been done for you with the Xport 2.0. This might seem like a lot of money for a development system but if you look at the costs for any other development system for an embedded processor it will cost at least this much and in the end you don’t get all the features that come with the GBA. One could create this development system on your own but why when it would end up costing as much to have prototype board made and would take months of development time.



I have recently purchased a GBA from my fiancée’s little brother who had upgraded to the Game Boy Advanced SP. The Xport 2.0 works on the SP as well but I think is overkill and has fewer input buttons. I also like the fact that the GBA uses standard batteries so I won’t have to worry about buying expensive replacement batteries from Nintendo. I can also have a pair of batteries in the charger at the same time as I am using another pair in the GBA unit so that I can continually use the GBA. The EDN article Gaming as Serious Business describes potential and actual applications of the Game Boy as an embedded system. 

Stay tuned for further information on the progress of this project.

I am geek

I just found out about ctags for vi today and it made me the happiest person on earth! I am geek!