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    Oscillating fans

    By Bfahome,

    "AaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaA"
     
     
     
    So I may have gone home over the weekend and may have set up a fan that my mom bought and may have proceeded to talk into it like a Dalek and/or try to sing some vocoded songs for about a half an hour, but I can't confirm anything.
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    Chima promotion

    By Bfahome,

    In the BFair goodie bag there was a $50 LEGO gift card, so I decided to get Eris' Eagle Interceptor and the Iron Man Extremis Sea Port Battle sets, because if I spent over I $50 I think there was that free Iron Man polybag (this was late May).
     
    The Iron Man set got backordered, so I went home for a weekend (I'm living elsewhere over the summer) and picked up the Interceptor. There was the little polybag in the box as well, but also the CHI Battles Speedorz set. Apparently they were including it in orders as a promotional thing. Unfortunately, the Iron Man set didn't arrive until after I'd gone back to where I was staying, so it's been sitting around the house for the past month+.
     
    So then I come home yesterday, open the second box, and there's another CHI Battles set included with it.
     
    So now I have 4 Speedorz and I want to build things with them.
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    The escape key.
     
    Seriously, you have a button on your keyboard labeled "escape" (okay it's "esc" but still).
     
    This is one of those things that everyone should just stop and think about for a second.
     
    It's not the "stop" key, it's not the "quit" key, it's not the "cancel" key, it's the "ABORT ABORT ABANDON SHIP GET ME OUTTA HERE" key.
     
     

    es-cah-pay
     
    Tune in next time for I-don't-know-what. It'll come to me at some point.
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    Wind powah!
     
    So the VolturnUS thing I posted about before happened today and it was great and very hot and my legs are so sunburned.
     
    Many big people there, and I showed some of them where to go for lunch.
     
    Also I got to sign it before they put it in the water!
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    VolturnUS 1:8

    By Bfahome,

    So the place I work (on-campus at UMaine) is doing a pretty big thing on Friday.
     
    It's going to be the launch of a functioning 1:8 scale model of the VolturnUS floating wind turbine. It'll be the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the country! They're also putting out a LIDAR buoy to collect information about weather and wind speeds, and it'll be I think the fifth of its kind in the world.
     
    It's really cool to be able to say that I had a part in this, which I can technically say, no matter how miniscule of a part it was.
     
    I think the plan in the next few years is to slowly build a big wind farm far off the coast. This is really more of a test run than anything, but even at 1/8th the size of the planned model it's quite large.
     
    And it's really cool too!
     
    (There are going to be a bunch of big news people there.)
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    Toa Gavla

    By Bfahome,

    SO MANY wonderful parts acquired at BrickFair. This uses many of them, including the mask. Also so many pneumatic T pieces and flick-fire missiles.
     
    (I need silver Rahkshi heads, I feel like it'd help with the color distribution more.)
     
    Also this thing that I threw together one weekend then decided to bring to the convention. Many things, including the OTCs, were added there.
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    So, BrickFair

    By Bfahome,

    NO REGRETS
     
    Finally got to meet Black Six in the non-internet world. Also met some others like Chro, Nealybealy, Steve the Squid, and whoever else stopped by the table.
     
    I won the Dirty Buildster game and got this nice little TECHNIC set as a prize (and it actually is a nice little set, the steering is pretty cool), as well as the big cup of random pieces I got to build with. I also tried the Blind Speed-Build, didn't win, but the City police set I got out of it was neat.
     
    And then I spent like too much money on vendors. There was a pick-your-parts-for-eight-dollars thing going, so I did that three times and got a bunch of good stuff from that. There was also a guy selling bags of pieces, which I bought some of (including quite a few Galidor parts, and for such a meh theme that gets stepped on all the time, its pieces are pretty good-looking). I also bought Granite, the tan Slizer/Throwbot.
     
    And some guy had a malfunctioning Technojaw T55 that someone gave him and he didn't feel like dealing with it anymore so he gave it to me. So, having had a Technojaw before, I replaced the wonky core module with my functioning one, and now I have a working and not totally disassembled Technojaw T55 to play with yay.
     
    I also got other cool things like the goodie bag stuff and my badge and snazzy BrickFair polo for helping set up stuff.
     
    The MOCs I sent to Cascade didn't get shipped in time to be displayed, but luckily I brought my handy portal gun and some newer stuff so they could be in the show. One of them was DJ Kumo and his stage, and the other was a little HF-shell-based thing I made. And of course, as you can see in the last entry, I was DJ Kumo (at some points). I'll probably post a topic with details of that soon.
     
    tl;dr: I had a blast and I hope I can go next year.
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    HvZ

    By Bfahome,

    It's baaaa-aaaack!
     
    Our game starts in two weeks. I've already made a squad.
     
    I think it's gonna be a good game this semester.
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    Hi, I'm Bfa, and I don't know a dang thing about coding.
     
    So I'm looking for someone to help me with something.
     
    I'm thinking of using an Arduino UNO in a project, and I would like to be able to use TouchOSC to control it from my iPod. The little snag that I'm hitting is that I have no idea how to even begin to do that.
     
    (Okay, that's a lie, I made a TouchOSC layout for the buttons and toggles and stuff. But from there I'm clueless.)
     
    My goal is to have buttons that I can touch that'll activate individual LEDs (or toggle them on/off) as well as ones that I can push to run programs in the Arduino. Basically something to flash the LEDs in a set patters or let me control them individually.
     
    Does anyone know how, or know anyone that would know how, to go about doing this?
     
    (I kind of want to have it done within the next two months.)
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