Gixxus Christ!

Who's the sun bather? Looks tasty.

If this were aimed at parents it would rely on fear instead of instruction and show a much younger child accidentally killing his friend with daddy's revolver. Your irrational fear of firearms has no bearing on the meaning of this video. If you were properly trained in the safe handling, use and storage of a gun it would not be a constant source of concern. It is your ignorance that breeds fear.

Winning.

Let's spell it out for magdor.... The kid plays the protagonist in this little play. We can come to this conclusion by way of his actions in connection with the overall message of the psa. We must assume that the protagonist in any psa serves to provide an example of what to do, ie: the just say no ads. The good kid, when offered that evil drug marijuana, says no and walks away. This is the behavior that the directors are trying to invoke in the youth at large. By extension and following the base pattern of all public service announcements the protagonist in this video is to serve as an example of correct behavior for today's youth. In summary: this video tells kids to steal guns and bring them to school.

Well I've downloaded the programming and development environment to my notebook and set it up as much as possible. Been chewing through tutorials and have been picking up the mechanics of the lingo. Nothing left but for my kit to come in the mail so I can start getting my hands dirty. We should start a drop box where we can share schematics and code or just puke them up onto this thread.

These are based on C language. You use arguments (commands and definitions) to compile a sketch (program) and send it to the controller via usb. The controller then executes the commands via the pin headers that connect sensors, displays, motors etc to it (and usually a breadboard). I'm learning slowly, by the time my kit gets here I should have enough base knowledge to do some basic functions and learn progressively from there.

I've taken my bandit camping before but it was just what I used to get my shit to the site, I drink far too much beer while camping to get on a bike and the bandit is far from an adv bike.

I went for the uno 3 kit in the ebay link I posted earlier. Will be studying the tutorials on sparkfun for the next week til it comes

I love that you use grok. Heinlein ftw! Yes, I guess I'll just have to hack into it until waiting is filled and I grok it's fullness. Till spring, water brother.

So I've been looking into the programming aspect and I'm a little intimidated even by the most basic function sketches, mostly because this machine language us foreign to me. Maybe the tutorial assumes familiarity with the language. Going to keep learning however slowly and see if things start to make sense, but it seems like I'm a very long way from building things that do anything useful. I've never even touched a breadboard before...this will be interesting. As far as sensors for carbed bikes, not much I can think of aside from maybe using a pot to measure and display throttle opening %....maybe get an in line flow meter to display fuel flow into carbs but that won't directly translate to current fuel usage because of the way a carb works (bowls still filling at low throttle, fuel flow read as high)...

Canton area....long drive to borrow something I can go buy at radio shack. I'm trying to think of other applications for this thing...I am only limited by my imagination, which is not incredibly good these days.

Watched a few videos, it's just like script writing: set parameters and tell it what to do, then the program compiles it and feeds it to the brain. Gonna dredge up a few books online and bone up on programming before I even buy the thing.

Yeah I was never good with electronics as far as design goes, no formal training. I figure it will be a good opportunity for me to learn new things while making cool stuff and for $65 I can get this: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=271658490668&alt=web which seems like more than enough to keep me busy.I have experience in some programming; cnc mostly but I also used to write macros and scripts for telex back in the day of 14.4k modems and 32 line local bulletin boards. There are a billion videos on YouTube that teach the stuff so I should be able to hack my way through it.

Yeah I've got plans for a little weather station, a proximity alarm for parking my car and maybe a robot that plays with the cats with a laser pointer.

Got my dad a robotics starter kit from radio shack for xmas and now I'm starting to get interested in microcontroller and robotics projects. Seems like something fun to do until spring (unless someone needs a motor built...) anyone play with them? Was thinking I'd start out slow and learn how to program and eventually progress to building things that are actually useful. So what's up? Who's into this shit?

Yeah those are a hoot.... my older brother had a tri-z 250 that in its lifetime had killed one guy and cost another guy his arm. No small wonder they outlawed the 3 wheeler.

Watched it last night. Fucking dumb movie. Production value was horrible. Pretty sure all this garbage was just a publicity stunt.

Pretty sure we all got those at school on picture day. Get 2 boar brushes, one hard and one soft. Walgreens got you covered on the low low.

I'm the carburetor commander. I make that shit work...tune a bike in my sleep. That vtec tone one a bike with aftermarket pipes... it's just sexy...at 6800 rpm and wot....fap worthy. Sorry brian, not paying 6500 for your $4750 bike.

I so want a vtec 800....

And different balms act differently. The beardsmans mate balm i have is more waxy and stiffens up a bit especially out in the cold whereas the grave before shave balm is more oily...

Double derp

Run power leads as far away from signal leads as possible to eliminate noise...the emf leaks from the charge cable and gets picked up by the signal wires. Quality shielded cables will help too

I just don't have the gumption to grow my beard that long. 3 months and change was about all I could do...my facial hair (and what little remains on my head) is fine, and that makes it hard to manage over a certain length. I currently have 2 tins of balm and a bottle of oil so won't be cluttering my sink with more beard care until some of that has been used up. Will definitely check out cliffs when the time comes.

Not without thousands of dollars in mods to make it rwd.