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MATSURI : A Festival of Japan (Feb. 23-24, 2008)

Matsuri: A Festival of Japan is a yearly celebration of Japanese culture in downtown Phoenix. It’s coming up this next weekend. See http://azmatsuri.org/ for more details. COME JOIN US …for the 24th anniversary celebration that is Japan! Saturday and Sunday, … Continue reading

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How many unique bits in a seven segment display?

The Problem A friend of mine is working on a project that involves reading data from the seven-segment display of another device. I was thinking about this over dinner, and started to wonder whether you need to read all of … Continue reading

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Strong Beer festival next Saturday

I’ll be there, anyone else in?

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Thing-a-day, Day 6: Driver for Tri-color LED matrix

Ok, the driver for the matrix LED display is mostly finished. This works by actively scanning each row of LEDs, and is driven by a computer so it will be possible to display changing images. To be completed are the … Continue reading

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Hike with Mike

In reality though, what I did today was visit my friend Mike at his new house, and we went on a nice hike up Finger Rock Canyon. The weather started getting really ugly so we didn’t go all the way … Continue reading

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Penguicon 2008!!! April 18-20th Troy, MI!!!

Even though posting events on this blog is a sure sign that I will not attend them, I thought maybe someone in the Detroit area might be interested in this, looks fun. Alexio and Nanciko are coming to visit the … Continue reading

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar Wilde, is going on at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts this weekend and next. I’m not much of a theatre buff, but I really enjoyed this last time I … Continue reading

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