http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/LEDMinifigs

I tend to like reading MAKE’s blog often to get ideas for future projects and came across a blog post recently about using your electronic skills to help celebrate the Holiday season.

I’m thinking of trying my hand at programming one of the character LEDs and building a menorah from scratch. From what I can tell about the project, the following psudocode is a good guess at how the programs work:

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[via Sam Devore’s Website (a buddy from the Tucson Web Standards Group)]

Here’s a non-harmful “warning” label bikers can toss onto cars that get too close and hog the road…

That is the moon taken with a manual 16 second exposure on my digital camera. Amazing shot!

The weather recently has been amazingly cold here in the South West. It got down to 34.4 (according to my outdoor thermometer) last night! Lauren and I have also had to wear; brace yourself for this, because it’s shocking; HEAVY COATS when doing anything at night for the last few days.

It’s amazing how quickly the cold came into town. Just last week, we were running around in T-shirts! What makes it even worse, is that the North East, where we moved from, has been having unseasonable highs! How fair is that? We moved to the desert to temporarily get away from the cold and it’s warmer there now than it is here!

In some ways it’s good though. We are getting acclimated to the cold temperatures for when we visit home for the holidays. Oh well… I’m going to put my coat on and grab some coffee at Starbucks…