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Wireless Sensor Networks and Safety

Not quite the sexiest of topics, but an interesting one nonetheless. My work finds me at current designing and architecting conventional albeit highly reliable and fail-safe (literal failure of anything results in electrical and physical isolation/safety states) cabled systems. A combination of both electrical and pneumatic actuation, coupled with...

New Month, New Style

Well, it's March already, and so to make up for a distinct lack of chat, a new styling will make do. Both "Shot by" and "Made by" receive the new design, with newcomer "Loved by McCoy" to follow with a lighter version of the theme. To begin, the only distinction...

Freetronics Friday

The highlight of this week, was looking to be the second cup of green tea I was made yesterday. I'm looking forward to 1st January rather than Christmas, and even beyond to mid-January for the swift completion of the project I'm involved in (double-edged sword there), not to mention for...

Armatron

Vintage and robotic? Two birds, one stone. First project on MBM (we're into acronym territory already), will be the conversion of a beautiful vintage Tandy Armatron, with an Arduino Uno and perhaps a few new servos. My intention is to leave as much of the robot intact, and to focus...

Made by McCoy

Well, I got part way in setting up the new blog... When I get some free time, my plan still stands to produce new themes for both. For now, enjoy the awful templates currently used. In the meanwhile, have a look at some of the fun things I'm currently working...

This technology is fantastical and yet already out of date.

As an opening blog, and demonstration of my sheer technical prowess, I'm writing this from a tablet device. Okay, so a little more 2010 and a little less 2001 (the book, rather than the year), but astounding nonetheless. It wasn't even ten years ago, there were folks building prop Star...

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