Million Dollar Idea

Spam filter for physical mail. Somebody run with it.

We must have been inserted into some sort of new homeowners database. Each day, several ‘official looking, if this was 1983 or so’ letters show up in the mailbox. Most of them are attempting to bilk me out of money for ‘special homeowner’s life insurance’ or something of that nature. Thanks, but no thanks.

There is a bright side to this spam…they all have return postage. Hence:

unsubscribe
aggressively unsubscribe

Fighting the system, one crude drawing of a robot flipping off spammers at a time. You’re all welcome.

Rattle Can Makeover

Impatiently awaiting my Dremel from Amazon, I made an executive decision that Clocky’s bright orange motif had to go. Clocky already had some big rims; sort of like my SS. Sort of too like my Yukon. Hmm…black and chrome…sort of a no-brainer.

Step 1: teardown / spray paint

tear down
parts

Step 2: Re-assemble

bringin sexy black
sum of parts

Much better. Hoping to have the little guy rotary-drilled and souped-up before too long. Check back in soon.

Project Preview

My new IOIO project is in the ‘bunch of pieces’ state.

ioio on wheels
alligator-y

It also happens to be in the ‘my effing hardware works’ phase as well..

I’ll keep mum on this for the time being…a bunch of coding and refinement remains to be seen. Stay tuned for this one…

Airsoft Hack Kickoff

I’m working on a project to control an airsoft pistol via my Arduino. The end result is to enable web control of this thing…

pew pew pew
pew pew pew

So far, I have checked off one step of two. My steps are as follow:

Step 1) Tear apart item
Step 2) Hack the crap out of said item

Stay tuned…

Robomantic Robomance

In honor of the absolute worst national holiday, enjoy a Columbus-inspired robot picture:

king of the world
brobotmance

See what I did there? Now, picture Leo drawing a nudie pic of a big-ass-diamond-wearing-robot. Robomantic….more like brobomantic.

sry u guyz

srsly sry

srsly sry to the point of making an apologetic, aggressive, lightening-bolts-out-the-ass, image to show my deep, deep regret for my laziness.

pew pew pew crack snap pew
+ several aggressive

I realized that I have approximately nine posts sitting in my figurative TO DO box. Including the much anticipated stuff regarding soldering the Arduino Motor Shield.

Much anticipated may be a gross overstatement. It will be there, and we can judge at that point. Srsly.

Snowbot

snowbot
snowbotic

Snow? In May? Give me a f*cking break, Mother Nature.