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	<description>A tinkerer's journal and look at life's debris.</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
		
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Taken  - 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>A Barbeque Waiting to Happen</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/a-bbq-waiting-to-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/a-bbq-waiting-to-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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We Just finished applying a layer of 24&#8221; x 24&#8221; slate tiles to our back patio.  It was a straight-forward enough tiling job, but the scale of it has me feeling like i just finished building the pyramids or something. But I think that it was worth the effort. Just had to show it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jarle Helland Needlecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/jarle-helland-needlecraft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/jarle-helland-needlecraft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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Jarle Helland came to the U.S. from Norway in 1920 after serving his compulsory stint in the Norwegian Army. To sample the New World, he purchased a Tin Lizzie and drove it across the continent at a time when (I would imagine) his route was scarcely paved. 
Jarle was a tinkerer&#8217;s tinkerer.  A master [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuckoo For Cocopunk</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cuckoo-for-cocopunk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cuckoo-for-cocopunk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ukulele]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coconut]]></category>

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Although coconut shells do have some well established niche market uses such as novelty swimwear and small caged-pet shelters, I can&#8217;t help but to feel as though too many of them are going to waste.
The New Altoids Tin?
No I don&#8217;t mean as a mint holder, but as an improvised homebrew electronics project enclosure. The Altoids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Blog - Dinosaurs and Robots</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/new-blog-dinosaurs-and-robots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/new-blog-dinosaurs-and-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
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Mark Frauenfelder and Mr. Jalopy have partnered up to write a new blog called Dinosaurs and Robots.
Mark is the founder of Boing Boing and the Editor in Chief  of Make Magazine.   Mr. Jalopy also writes for Make, and  is a curator and purveyor of some of the great forgotten  artifacts [...]]]></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>
		
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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>Project Cornelius  - Tunic Pattern</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cornelius-costume-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/cornelius-costume-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cornelius]]></category>

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Image Courtesy of Apemania.com.
I can &#8216;t think of a better way to ring in the new year than to start working on my 2008 Halloween costume.
It&#8217;s been just over a year since I got my sewing machine.  When I first got it, I had ambitions of cranking out a whole closet full of custom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickie Projection Screen</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/quickie-projection-screen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/quickie-projection-screen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve borrowed a video projector and you&#8217;re finally going to host that Don Knotts film festival that you&#8217;ve always talked about.  Well, Cannonball Run II  doesn&#8217;t look that great on a beige wall, and you don&#8217;t have any white sheets to hang. Rest easy, with a trip to the fabric store and [...]]]></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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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>Make Boots For Your Costume</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-boots-for-your-costume/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-boots-for-your-costume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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A rebel x-wing pilot just doesn&#8217;t look right in tennis shoes.  If your Halloween costume could benefit from a pair of jack boots, but you just don&#8217;t feel like forking over the $300, don&#8217;t despair.  You can make a pair of decent-looking costume boot  tops in pretty short order.

Make A Pattern
While wearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Iron-on Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/how-to-make-iron-on-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/how-to-make-iron-on-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You say you need a yellow G for your Speed Racer costume but you couldn&#8217;t sew a stitch if your life depended on it?  Rest easy, you can make jiffy iron-on letters using some felt and your hot-glue gun.

There is probably a pre-glued interfacing material made just for this purpose, but I didn&#8217;t know [...]]]></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>
		
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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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		<title>Water Rocket Party</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/water-rocket-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/water-rocket-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting tired of pin the tail on the donkey? Bowling alley booked?  Well, we&#8217;ve found that newly-minted 5 year olds and friends like nothing more than to spend an hour decorating and launching their own water rockets. 
We&#8217;ve thrown this party twice now, and it was blast both times.  

Make The Rockets
Making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Miniute Dueling Lightsabers</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/2-miniute-dueling-lightsabers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/2-miniute-dueling-lightsabers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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Whip up an impromptu set of lightsabers and have your little Jedi&#8217;s learning the way of the Force in minutes.  We made up this set of dueling sabers with some garbage and literally about 2 minutes of work.
The tubes that we used are the cores that are left over when the plotter at work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRANKbait! Lures of Distinction</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/crankbait-lures-of-distinction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/crankbait-lures-of-distinction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 What is this about?
It&#8217;s about finding an answer to that age-old question, the one that we have all asked ourselves:
What would happen if you shipped 20 unassembled old-timey wooden fishing lure kits off to be finished by a bunch of artists?
    It turns out that the answer is CRANKbait! Lures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opaque Projector</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/build-an-opaque-projector-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/build-an-opaque-projector-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Furniture]]></category>

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Here it is.  No. 2 in my BelAir series of retro-feel homebuilt AV equipment (see No.1).  I used a surplus copy machine lens to make this opaque projector for use as a drawing aid. (See this post for background info and plans) .

The projector is essentially a wooden box with with a lens, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyperstereo Seattle</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/hyperstereo-seattle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/hyperstereo-seattle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are 3 hyperstereo views of Seattle, taken from the observation deck of Smith Tower.  These stereo pairs are set up for cross-eyed viewing. 
Hyperstereo
Hyperstereograms are image pairs that are made using a larger than human interocular spacing.  Huh?  You know, the cameras are further apart than your eyes.  The effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make an Opaque Projector</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-an-opaque-projector/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/make-an-opaque-projector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Easy Projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought this gargantuan lens from American Science Surplus, and I recommend that you do the same as soon as possible.

Huge Lens
Even if you don&#8217;t plan to build a projector, telescope, or a big red pulsing HAL 9000 eye, you should pick up one of these lenses just to have sitting on your desk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Caught Little Chef!</title>
		<link>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/little-chef/</link>
		<comments>http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/little-chef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Debris]]></category>

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Last night I found myself in a remarkably Ratatouille predicament.
It is rare that our cat Rudy brings an animal into the house in anything but either a dead, or mortally wounded condition.  Last night we were hanging out in the basement to escape the upstairs heat (Seattle houses don&#8217;t have AC). We kept hearing [...]]]></description>
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