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	<title>Tinker, tinker</title>
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	<description>The electronic Adventures of a Thirty-five Year Old Boy</description>
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		<title>Water Dog FAIL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is going to be a bit of a problem shortly, if things continue apace.  My dog hates getting her feet wet. Yes, my sweet lovable puppy, who by all accounts from the boarding place, &#8220;Jumped right into the pool and swam around with the other dogs and wasn&#8217;t the tiniest bit afraid,&#8221; who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make: Robot Build Final Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, final makes it sound so&#8230; FINAL.  My robot ended up taking a lot more work than I predicted it would.  That, combined with a number of technical issues that arose at the last minute, has resulted in me missing the final build deadline of Monday night (tonight at midnight).  Basically, nothing turned out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Make: Robot Build Contest &#8211; Final layout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got some work done on my robot for the Make: Coasterbot contest, namely finalizing a design and thermo-shaping the CD for the body.  I say &#8220;thermo-shaping&#8221; trying to be fancy, but mostly it was a controlled melting of the CD while it was clamped to a straight edge.  This one isn&#8217;t *quite* square since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Make: Robot Build Contest, entry #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick picture of one of my thoughts as far as layout for my robot.  I&#8217;m really not happy with where the MCU is sitting in relation to the motors, but that my just be a necessary evil.  I&#8217;m going to try putting some shielding in to minimize EMF interference.  I&#8217;m also still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=147</link>
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		<title>Make: Robot Build Contest &#8211; Entry #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t originally going to take part in the Robot Build Contest at Make: Magazine&#8217;s blog, but over the weekend I found a Tamiya gearbox at the local RC hobby store and my creativity was sparked!  So now I have the gearbox with two little motors, a set of LEGO Mindstorms tank treads I ordered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=144</link>
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		<title>My wife loves me, kinda.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m having a math-related panic attack here as I try to study for a mid-term I have in Calculus II tomorrow, and my wife is being very understanding and trying to help and take care of me and so forth.  I took a Klonopin, and she walked the dog and ordered dinner.  When the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=139</link>
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		<title>Cooking geeks, behold!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this weekend I decided that I wanted to try my hand at a home-baked loaf of bread. We got some flour and yeast and, already having the other two ingredients on hand &#8211; water and salt &#8211; forged ahead with my plan.  Many thanks to my friend Dave who, as a professional cook, had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Make cable art out of cable tangles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so this is a brilliant idea that I can&#8217;t believe nobody had thought of yet.
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		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Nixie Tubes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I think everyone who has ever seen them will agree that nixie tubes are really cool looking.  Up until now they have been difficult to work with &#8211; when you can find them &#8211; due to their high voltage power needs.  The lovely folks at ArduiNIX.com have solved that problem for anyone interested in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.edhickcox.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Accomplished cat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, today started out pretty normal for a Sunday, in which the wife and I got up and ran to a drive-thru at the last minute to grab breakfast and then drove around town a little just sort of enjoying the day and planning things out and digesting.  We went to Home Depot and Target [...]]]></description>
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