Category Archives: Ridiculous

October Thing-a-day, Day 1: Association of Monocled Cat Walkers

Posted on October 2, 2008 by mahto

Today’s thing is a logo for a group I would like to start. Anyone interested? This was drawn in pencil, inked with a sharpie, then scanned, thresholded in GIMP, and converted to a vector drawing and simplified in Inkscape.

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Excuse me, sir!

Posted on September 1, 2008 by mahto

Has someone been looking for me?

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Great with kids!

Posted on July 6, 2008 by mahto
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Biodegrading

Posted on April 30, 2008 by mahto

This more or less makes sense.

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Thing-a-day, Day 24: Fire!

Posted on February 25, 2008 by mahto

I was angry with my PC today so I did what any decent geek would do: I lit it on fire! To achieve a long exposure shot on my Powershot S3, I used a recent build of the CHDK firmware … Continue reading →

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Thing-a-day, Day 15: Vibrating robot

Posted on February 16, 2008 by mahto

This one doesn’t really do anything useful. I call it the battery waster. Basically, its just abusing the solenoid by putting the battery contact in line with the actuator rod, so that when it turns off, the rod is pushed … Continue reading →

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How many unique bits in a seven segment display?

Posted on February 16, 2008 by mahto

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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