Cremains into Diamonds. This is pretty strange – Wired News: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Diamonds

Go Bucks!!!. Yee Ha. A close one but a win is a win, and with Oklahoma’s loss, we should clearly be #1 in the BCS based on my initial calculations. Even without the bonus for beating WSU (who won again, so we get that bonus) it still seems to me that we will be #1. Only if the Miami victory over Tennessee causes major changes in the computer polls (due to the perceived toughness of Tennessee) will OSU lose its #1 position.

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A good source for parts and pieces.

And the zombies holding it.

The MOM dudes recommend the Gilderfluke Servo Controller

May have already posted this…Brookshire software servo control software.

OK I don’t really find X10 to be that appropriate for haunt automation. Too much latency in the gear, and too unreliable a protocol. The latency is the big problem. That said, there is a lot of product available and it is relatively inexpensive. You can find x10 and also higher end home automation here – ASIhome. Also All things x10 here – SMARTHOME.COM

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Now this is cool stamp development software Robo-Ware Robotics Servo Control Software. Maybe this is a cooler stamp? OOPic. Another sbc source – Single Board Computers & Peripherals

CDs and streaming audio. Very interesting digital sound players – rack mounted, solid state media, amps built in – Welcome to Gilderfluke. Here is one person’s reco for mixer/dist setup Yahoo! Groups : MethodzOfMadness Messages :Message 295 of 597. Yahoo! Groups : MethodzOfMadness Messages :Message 298 of 597

As for other sound, I really like the Eletech boards. They take a compact flash card, so programming is done in wave files on your PC and downloaded to the card. Then it is placed in the board. The boards have built-in amplifiers. I ran my opening room using a Gilderfluke MiniBrick-8 and a stereo Eletech board. It puts out 40 watts a side at 4 ohms. I ran the output to two 8 ohm speakers in parallel and got plenty of sound to fill the room. And the quality is 16-bit 44khz, so you’d have a hard time coming up with anything clearer.

Apparently a good solenoid tutorial tho the site is down right now – Clippard Online.

Lots of good discussion on the MOM site about servo control software. Robo-Ware Robotics Servo Control Software is recommended, supports downloads to basic stamps. Visual Servo Automation - Overview - The Solution for Mini-SSC Servo Control Software gets a lot of recommendations too but no download to basic stamps, you need to keep the PC in the picture.