Tag: hobbies
member name: Dave Sandborg
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March 04, 2009 11:21 PM EST --
I have always been quite interested in electronics, but over the past few years I've tried to actually act on the interest and learn more about the "nuts and bolts" of electronic circuits. . . .
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March 23, 2009 10:51 PM EDT --
I have been interested in electronics for some time, and over the past few years have requested some increasingly complex projects for Christmas gifts. This past Christmas culminated in my getting . . .
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April 01, 2009 08:39 PM EDT --
This is the second in a series of posts. Here is the first.
Having completed my first microprocessor project successfully, I was eager to move on to the second. The previous project was . . .
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June 18, 2009 10:19 PM EDT --
This is the eighth post in a series. Here are the first , the second , the third , the fourth , the fifth , the sixth , and the seventh .
I had come to the last soldering project in the . . .
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January 11, 2009 10:33 PM EST --
If you want to keep a healthy tank full of fish, it will take more work than just throwing some food at them on a regular basis. There are several other regular tank maintenance operations you should . . .
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August 25, 2009 09:34 PM EDT --
As of the beginning of this year I had begun to feel that my tank was about as complete as it can be. Ever since I decided to start an aquarium I had a pretty consistent vision of the composition . . .
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September 05, 2009 10:19 AM EDT --
If you're going to have an aquarium with fish, you will have to face the question of how best to introduce them to your tank. Store-bought fish probably will have been under a great deal of stress . . .
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March 11, 2009 11:06 PM EDT --
Because of a Christmas gift I received this year, I have had to learn to solder electronic components. As I described in another article I began with a simple project, a logic probe, in order to . . .
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April 12, 2009 11:16 PM EDT --
This is the third in a series of posts. Here is the first and here is the second .
I had been planning to do one microprocessor project a week, but I'd been so pleased with the results . . .
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April 21, 2009 08:19 PM EDT --
This is the fourth in a series of posts. Here is the first , here is the second , and here is the third .
The fourth construction project in my microprocessor kit's manual made use of . . .
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May 31, 2009 07:56 PM EDT --
This is the sixth in a series of posts. Here are the first , the second , the third , the fourth , and the fifth .
My next project on my microprocessor kit was the most significant by far--finally . . .
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June 10, 2009 11:08 PM EDT --
This is the seventh post in a series. Here are the first , the second , the third , the fourth , the fifth , and the sixth .
There would be no construction for my next microprocessor project. . . .
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June 22, 2009 10:12 PM EDT --
This is the ninth post in a series. Here are the first , the second , the third , the fourth , the fifth , the sixth , the seventh , and the eighth .
I was coming to the end of the manual . . .
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August 13, 2009 11:16 PM EDT --
This is the final post in a series, in which I wrap up with final thoughts about my microprocessor project. Here are links to the other posts: One , two , three , four , five , six , . . .
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March 09, 2009 10:53 PM EDT --
My aquarium is what is known as a "community tank". This means that it is in some sense a "mutt", containing a mix of fish species that would never e found together in nature. . . .
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May 20, 2009 09:20 PM EDT --
This is the fifth in a series of posts. Here are the first , the second , the third , and the fourth .
My next microprocessor lesson involved one of the final fundamental components of the . . .
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April 08, 2009 09:55 PM EDT --
From the beginning, I've had an image of the type of fish I've wanted to keep in my aquarium. It happens that many of the species I keep were ones that I had in a smaller aquarium when I . . .
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July 16, 2007 08:20 PM EDT --
Different species of fish prefer to dwell in different layers of water. A good aquarium has fish that fill every level of the tank, and there is of course a very natural dweller for the bottom of . . .
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May 28, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
As unpleasant as it is to contemplate, the fish you keep will eventually die. With the kinds and numbers of fish I keep, it's a mathematical certainty that a few will die every so often. . . .
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February 20, 2008 09:22 PM EST --
As I've described elsewhere in this series of articles, I have often chosen my fish based on ones I had when I was a child, or ones that I wanted to have in the past but didn't have the chance . . .
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