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1265 Main

One of the biggest construction projects going on near us has been the demolition of the old Polaroid plant on 128. It’s an enormous project. They plan to replace the plant with more than...

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Makeblock Kickstarter

The chassis for the robot Peter’s been working on is made of aluminum extrusions called Makeblocks. They’ve worked out very well. They’re robust and flexible. In addition, the holes line up with the holes...

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FTC@BUA

There was a First Tech Challenge regional meet at BU Academy today. Pete’s team wasn’t in it, but we went to scope out the competition. The basic idea is that the robots lift the...

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Holidays Over

Tom’s vacation is over and we dropped him at the airport this morning to get his flight back to Indiana. Since it was his last night in town we decided to take him out...

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IOIO

For Christmas I got a IOIOMint. That’s a cool little bridge device which lets you connect external hardware to an Android device. I got some time to play with it tonight, so I went...

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Swan in the Road

This morning I got stuck in a big traffic jam on Route 9. Eventually I got to the head of it and found the cause. There was a swan walking down the middle of...

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2013

Happy New Years! We just got back from First Night. Here are a couple of pictures Chris got with her cool new micro 4/3 lens. There were lots of great ice sculptures. The parade...

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Teemo Hat

Tom got a new hat for Christmas. What’s a Teemo you ask? (as did we) A character in the League of Legends multi-player online game. And?? It’s a special ops jungle badger…. Got that?...

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Snow

December’s almost over, but we finally got a decent amount of snow last night. It was just a couple of inches, but enough that we needed to get the snowblower out. Today the sun...