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.
And now that Walter has evil red eyes, why not a 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.
When I was growing up I didn’t give a whole lot of thought to my future career. I either wanted to be a private detective in the style of Frank and Joe Hardy, or a farmer like my biggest hero, my dad. Sometime in the last couple years of high school I suddenly grew an affinity to writing, and almost literally overnight I started writing pages and pages of the most random crap you could imagine.
Being 16-17, a lot of it was just me trying to make sense of life by emptying out my thoughts onto paper. I created my own fantasy setting, complete with six different races and a complete world map. I tried to describe exactly what true love was (all I figured out were dozens of things that it wasn’t), and theorized on the meaning of life, and more importantly, where I should go with my life. Pretty run of the mill teenage stuff. Read More…
This afternoon I walked down the alley and across the street to my local voting center. I gave them my name, took my ballot, and enjoyed the privilege that so many men and women have died to protect. I voted. Freely, without fear of repercussion, I cast my opinion into the sea of Americans who all come together to celebrate this thing we call democracy.
Now to endure the hype, controversy, and childish infighting that embodies American politics.
It’s no secret that my fellow bloggers and I have had problems posting on a regular basis, in fact, Dave hasn’t posted since May 18th, 2008. Yeah…
Anyhow, for the month of November we’re aiming to knock out at least one blog post a day, and yes, in case you’re wondering, this post does count as our one post for the day. We’re off to a great start!
Oh, and if anyone still reads this blog, we’d certainly like to hear from you, and suggestions for future topics will be rewarded with free PEZ.
A few days ago my MacBook Pro was taken out of the backseat of my car, along with my iPhone dock, AC charger for the iPhone, and a copy of Windows XP Pro (with COA).
As you might have gathered from the title of this post, life has not been the same without my computer, I still have a laptop, but it’s an Eee PC 1000H so between its limited processing power and tiny keyboard it doesn’t make for a very productive afternoon. And of course, it runs Windows, so 90% of the programs I need to run for school / work can’t even be installed.
Now its pretty much a waiting game, I’ve filed a police report and an insurance claim (thank goodness for Renters Insurance), and now I have to wait for the insurance paperwork to arrive and the claim to process. The guy I spoke to at State Farm said it would likely take 1-2 weeks to process my claim.
The next two weeks are going to be incredible long and boring I’m afraid.
Sci-Fi channel recently premiered their new series Sanctuary, and while the acting, storyline and character development are all woefully lacking, their taste in gadgets is excellent.
Here’s a screen cap from the pilot episode (click for full size):
If I’m not mistaken that is clearly the Axiotron ModBook.
More images and a video clip after the jump. Read More…
Did you know that the median wage of a reporter/correspondent for the average newspaper is $16.68/hour, and that the demand for new talent isn’t supposed to change in the next ten years?
Did you know that the median wage of a web developer is around $34.38/hour, and the demand for new talent is forecast to rise 14-20% in the next ten years?
In no other time of the year would I watch tennis, archery, swimming, weightlifting, and gymnastics. And yet with non-stop Olympic coverage I’ve been doing just that. USA leads China in the medal count, and I expect that to remain true throughout the events. Watching the USA basketball team play China kind of summed everything up for me.
In other news, Russia has captured the Georgian capital of Gori today, in a move that splits the country in half, no doubt further hampering any hope of slowing down the Russian advance while the U.N decides whether or not to intervene. Georgia’s government websites have been under DoS attacks since the war started, not that it matters a whole lot.
