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rwizard
Member Since:
September 25, 2006
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United States
Bio:
carbon based biology
(expect more flippant answers like the one above - the need that some people have to chronicle their lives to complete strangers over the Internet is simply bizarre - get a real life and delete all those TwitSpaceFace accounts, ok? Unless, of course, you just like your potential employer being able to get answers to all those questions which it would be illegal for them to put on an employment application.)
Organizations:
rarely, my desk is a mess
Current Role:
cinnamon with frosting (Sister Schubert's frozen heat and eat)
Spoken Languages:
Curmudgeon, Mumble, Mutter, Curse, Invective, Excoriation, some English
Programming Languages:
microcode, mind-machine interface, fat-finger, paper tape
Schools and Universities:
yes
Publications
maxim
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multitudinous
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No public wish lists :(
News - New Product Friday: Oh Fu… | about 2 months ago
Get a grip, and get your (unspecified gender)(spouse/partner/friend/neighbor/top/bottom) to check the filter on your solder fume hood, I don’t think it is working to peak capacity.
News - The Slap Method for Solde… | about 4 months ago
Kilo,
More important than avoiding polyester is remembering that no matter how brilliant the inspiration was that woke you up, soldering naked in bed is a really bad idea.
Also, don’t cook bacon in your underwear (or without your underwear).
Life lessons learned the hard way….
News - The Slap Method for Solde… | about 4 months ago
I’ve been doing this (when appropriate) for more years than Chris has been alive. Yes, once in a while you get an unintended consequence, but overall, applied with a little common sense, it is a useful technique.
One important tip, unplug any vacuum tubes from their sockets before slamming the chassis on the table.
News - SparkFun Production: A Br… | about 8 months ago
MountainMateo,
My first order with Sparkfun was in September of 2006, so I guess I started buying from SFE at the same time you started work there.
Thanks for one of the more interesting articles here.
Product ROB-09698 | about 9 months ago
I second the request for a more “Sparkfunny” controller, and a return to stocking motors. The folks at the local hobby shop just look at me with sort of a glazed, distant, stare when I start asking hackerish questions.
(Frankly, I think building a human passenger capable smart quad copter piloted by trained ferrets is a perfectly sensible idea, and I don’t understand why the folks at Hobbi-land aren’t more helpful ;^( . )
News - Relaying the New Products… | about 9 months ago
Understood. Mostly I wanted to emphasize that the text part of the post is the “substance” at least some of us are seeking. The video is great, as long as the important details are always listed below it. As for AdamTolley’s assertion that videos of Rob are analogous to Playboy centerfolds, well, Robert in a Speedo caressing his hot soldering iron is an image I just don’t want to contemplate. Robert and Adam will have to sort this bold new vision of Sparkfun calendars among themselves ;^) .
News - Relaying the New Products… | about 9 months ago
Robert said, “For those of you who didn’t watch the video, you should."
Perhaps we should, but to be honest, videos tend to have a low information provided to time spent ratio. To a substantial degree, this is because reading is so much faster than listening, which is a relatively inflexible serial process. It is so much easier to scan text for topics of interest, and read only that which relates to our needs. Watching videos and waiting for content we care about to (hopefully) pop up is time consuming and painful.
This is especially true when the information density, relevance, and quality of presentation is so dramatically variable ("actually”). I admit, I am much more likely to watch one of your (Robert’s) videos than, say, the “make led flowers for your prom dress” girl, but unless the average signal to noise ratio of the videos improves significantly, I’m going to keep skimming right on by them 9.9 times out of 10. Sorry.
News - Meet MonkeyLectric | about 9 months ago
And then there were the bikes of my childhood – book rack on the back, bell and streamers on the front, and for special effects, a playing card clicking against the spokes, held in place with a clothes pin. (This also frequently resulted in one end of a clean sheet lying on the ground, and parental frustration during that evening’s game of bridge.)
News - Meet MonkeyLectric | about 9 months ago
Curse you, twobluenope!
When you said, “I had a hard time following Laurent’s presentation because all my mind kept hearing was "This one time, at band camp…”“
I rushed back to the top to watch the video, expecting a hot redhead recounting things she did with her flute. Did I get hot geekess Alyson Hannigan? No. I got Ron Stoppable !!! How could you mislead us so terribly?
Product RTL-09885 | about 9 months ago
Yeah, same thing on a retail package I picked up.