Archive for December 3rd, 2008

HF Beacon for MIT Atlantic Balloon Program

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Courtesy of Bill Meara over at SolderSmoke, check out this link to the HF Beacon for MIT Atlantic Balloon Program. It’s a pretty simple 1.5w transmitter for 30m that could be built for about $25. It’s heart is a 74HC540 octal inverter chip, and uses two 2n7000 transistors. Very neat!

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Jerry needs no help playing with his ball.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen on youtube in at least a few hours.



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Santa Mark and Elf Scrappy

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Carmen got a cute little elf hat for Scrappy. He didn’t scratch or fuss too much, but neither was he especially happy. We decided to get a quick picture of him, and then gave him a little cat treat and let him get rid of his elf hat.

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