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Comment on NXTified Wipeout Style Obstacle Course by admin

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:30:29 +0000

Tonight we built the sucker punch. This obstacle requires contestants to run across a narrow path against a wall. The wall has punching bags which randomly strike them and try to knock them off the path into a foamy or slimy pool.

Here’s a quick video of the wall with one puncher installed and working.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112036112614831465397/posts/6vdbz8LTuof

Comment on NXT Astro Blasters by The Agnews

The Agnews — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:08:46 +0000

AMAZING!

Comment on Mindstorms NXT v 2.0 is on sale by Bill Shaw

Bill Shaw — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:02:07 +0000

I just found an even better deal at Barnes & Noble (online only). Their listed price is $251.95 but if you use coupon V7T4Y4X at checkout, it takes 30% off the price of one item giving you final price of $195.96 with free shipping.

The coupon is good through late June.

Comment on Weather Station Project by Anna

Anna — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:25:10 +0000

That sounds really cool, keep us updated!

Comment on Weather Station Project by Alan @ wunderground

Alan @ wunderground — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:16:46 +0000

It would be great to see this project working! Let us know when it is sending us data and I will link it into our PWS page.

Alan

Comment on Rebate Shenanigans by admin

admin — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:44:50 +0000

Still no chargeback in my bank account so I guess they decided to eat the extra rebate. Serves the rat bastards right.

Comment on Wanna Sell Me A(nother) Mercury? by admin

admin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:01:44 +0000

Took it back to the dealer last Friday. Before I returned it to them, I played with the A/C controls a bit and discovered that the entire time I’ve been driving this vehicle, the controls were set to manual. So, their response that automatic disabling of recirculate and the seat heating and cooling was completely irrelevant (even if it were true).

I explained this in great detail to the chief mechanic at the dealership and demonstrated for him how the controls actually worked. After about three iterations, he was finally able to adequately repeat back to me the problem I was describing.

At the end of the day, I picked up my car and was told that the controls were working “as designed.” The service manager says that Mercury acknowledged they did a poor job in the programming on that control and made it work better in the 2005 model. I left my name and number with the dealership’s GM.

To be continued…

Comment on eBay Javascript Injection by Anna

Anna — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:00:28 +0000

OMG, that is scary. I would have never known. Thanks for the warning.

Comment on Serial Killer by admin

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:32:06 +0000

Tomorrow is the big day. I already tested the floppy to confirm it is bootable. The customer is getting antsy but they’re eager to have things back to normal.