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	<description>A tinkerer's journal and look at life's debris.</description>
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		<title>World Control Panel</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/world-control-panel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Superheros, Evil Mad Scientists, Supervillains, Trilateralists, Bilderbergers, Meteorologists, Oligarchs, Generals, Demographers, Spymasters, Epidemiologists, and well, who couldn&#8217;t use a retro sci-fi command console to monitor and control their worldwide concerns?

My son Harlan and his friend love to play &#8220;agents&#8221; and he asked me if we coud build  &#8220;a panel that has a bunch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Robot Made This</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/my-robot-made-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/my-robot-made-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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I ran the first machining job with my newly operational Lumenlab Micro CNC robot (did you hear the champagne cork pop?).  I say newly operational, since I won&#8217;t consider this thing &#8220;finished&#8221; for a long time, if ever.  I anticipate fitting new tools to the machine to do different things for years to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Micro CNC Machine Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/more-micro-cnc-machine-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/more-micro-cnc-machine-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I am now so close to joining the desktop fabrication/manufacturing revolution that I can smell it.  Unfortunately for me, that smell is the reek of burning semiconductor, but I&#8217;ll get to that later.

I got the PC controller (EMC running on Ubuntu) and stepper motor driver boards all wired up and working great.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro CNC Robot Update</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 05:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I started assembling my Lumenlab Micro (no longer available) desktop CNC gantry robot and &#8220;personal manufacturing workstation&#8221;.
All your base are belong to Lumenlab
I was originally going to save a few dollars by making a base for the machine out of MDF, an idea that I never really liked that much.  So I started looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MicRo CNC Robot Kit</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/micro-cnc-robot-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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I love building things from kits almost as much as I love building things from scratch, and I think that it&#8217;s safe to say that the latest kit to show up on my doorstep is going open up a whole new world of scratch-building for me.

MicRo
The micRo is a 3-axis CNC robot being offered no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/the-great-internet-migratory-box-of-electronics-junk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/the-great-internet-migratory-box-of-electronics-junk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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Taken  &#8211; read Flickr notes.
&#8221;The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk is a progressive lending library of electronic components. An internet meme in physical form halfway between P2P zip-archive sharing and a flea market. It arrives full of wonderful (and possibly useless) components, but you will surely find some treasures to keep. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Blaster Pistol Toy</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/electronic-blaster-pistol-prop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/electronic-blaster-pistol-prop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laser Blaster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. ]]></description>
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		<title>555 One-Shot Timer Project</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/555-one-shot-timer-circuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/555-one-shot-timer-circuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laser Blaster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:

The final laser blast effect was leaving me a bit limp, so I decided to add a little motion in the form of a 10 LED chaser that will run down the side of the blaster as it fires.

The Chaser is supposed to be some sort of “pulse generator” ramping up to discharge a laser bolt.

You can see the effect in action In this YouTube video. Now THAT’s excitement!]]></description>
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		<title>Flashlightsaber</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/flashlightsaber/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/flashlightsaber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8216;m kind of getting lightsabered out. I promise that this will be my last mention of them for a while.
But I did have some leftover lightsaber making supplies sitting around after Halloween, so I used them to  build a &#8220;saber&#8221; that I could actually use.  In place of the blade, I installed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightsabers 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/lightsabers-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/lightsabers-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think that I may have just out-nerded myself.  You see, the 2-minute dueling sabers were fun for a couple of days, but they weren&#8217;t the most durable things in the world and were a bit lacking in the realism department.  So I decided to build a nicer set of  &#8220;elegant weapons [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hydroelectric Power Generator</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/hydroelectric-power-generator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/hydroelectric-power-generator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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A 5th grade tinkerer named  Luigi Maiorano built this fine little working hydroelectric power plant and showed it off at my kid&#8217;s school science fair.
 
]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking Laser Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/hacking-laser-tag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/hacking-laser-tag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/scorpion6.jpg" alt="laser tag hacking" height="72"/>

Mikes Ray-Gun is much bigger than yours.   -  Hacking Lazer Tag Team Ops.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Assembling the Megasquirt controller</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/megasquirt-fuel-injection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/megasquirt-fuel-injection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megasquirt EFI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/megasquirt-fuel-injection/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/megaWiringThum.gif" border="0"alt="megasquirt" />Megasquirt Part II of converting a BMW 2002 to Megasquirt DIY Fuel Injection - Building the controller, cable and relay board.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>DIY Fuel Injection Conversion</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/megasquirt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/megasquirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megasquirt EFI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/megaWiringThum.gif" border="0"alt="megasquirt" />Megasquirt - DIY Fuel Injection Conversion Introduction]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Desktop Retro Pong Console</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/95/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/95/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="alignleft" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/singerThum.jpg" alt="singer television" />Portable Televisions of  Yesterday, and the day before.

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nixie Tube Clock</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/numerical-indicator-experimental-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/numerical-indicator-experimental-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Furniture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=16"><img border="0" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/nixThum.jpg" alt="nixie clock" class="alignleft"/></a>Nixie tubes were the state of the art in electronic numerical displays during the mid-twentieth century. By the 1970's.hey were almost completely supplanted ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Build your own theremin</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/piaa-theremax-kit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/piaa-theremax-kit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=14"><img border="0" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/thereminThum.jpg" class="alignleft"/></a>The theremin is unlike any other musical instrument in that you don't actually touch the theremin while you play it.  You just sort of wave your hands around in front of it. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Becker Europa II Stereo</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/becker-europa-ii-stereo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/becker-europa-ii-stereo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=10</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/?p=10"><img border="0" src="http://www.finkbuilt.com/static/images/articles/becker3_thum.jpg" class="alignleft" alt="Becker Europa" /></a>what do I like most about my iPod?  

The 1973 Becker Europa II Stereo AM/FM radio.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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