Hijinks Inc.

Category: Aaron Nelsen

  • Walter 3.0

    In April of 2008 I built Walter 2.0, now meet Walter 3.0.

    I was out at my families house over Christmas and was bored out of my mind, so I broke out my Lego collection. Amazingly no one had taken Walter 2.0 apart yet, so I decided it was time for an upgrade of sorts.

    First off, I removed the pulley system that ran the wheels in Walters shoes as I needed the motors for the upgrades I had in mind.

    Next, I took apart his head and modified his eyes to allow light from the Lego “fiber optics” kit through. Then I installed a small switch in the back of his head to allow the optics to be turned on.

    Walter 3.0 - Eyes

    And now that Walter has evil red eyes, why not a laser cannon…

    Walter 3.0 - Laser Cannon

    Much better. The cannon is run by a small motor in his arm, and is controlled by the same switch that turns on the eyes.

    I’m not entirely happy with how it turned out, but it’ll have to wait until next Christmas for another upgrade. At this point I’m leaning towards turning Walter into a Borg, sadly though, I have a limited number of black and gray bricks.

  • 14 Google Wave Invites [out]

    I have 14 more Google Wave invites to hand out.

    And I’m out… hit up Fred in the comments if you still need one.

    It should be noted that invites are not instant, giving me your email address technically only gets you nominated for an invitation.

    Hit me up in the comments or on Twitter if you’re interested.

  • PS3

    So I’m a little late to the PlayStation 3 game, but heck, better late than out $500.

    I just bought a refurb PS3 off ebay, with a Blu-Ray remote and an extra controller. Pretty excited since I purchased the previous gen PS3 so I can install YDL or Ubuntu on it. Also found out it’ll place nice with my NAS’s option to stream media.

    At any rate, it won’t arrive until December 1st, but after that I’ll post a bit more about my experience installing Yellow Dog Linux on it.

  • Google Voice Invites

    I’m sure they won’t go as fast as the Google Wave invites, but I have 3 Google Voice invites left.

    Leave your email in the comments, or hit me up on Twitter.

  • Google Wave Invites

    Oh look, a new post.

    Anyone want a Google Wave invite? You know you do, hit me up on Twitter or by email aaron [dot] nelsen [at] gmail [dot] com.

    First come, first serve.