Pictures taken during March 2007

Fun with LEDs

Oooo

Ahhhh

Rosie drew (clockwise from top) Brett, me, and Bryce

The artist shows off her work

Rosie points to her work

Me!

Bryce didn't like his drawing

Brett!

Rosie!

Bryce playing games

Brett looking around

Don't you give me that look

Brett watching TV

Rosie puts the whiteboard back

Tycoonius

Bryce

Rosie makes a weird face

Rosie sits around

Our folktale from Japanese class

What the hell is this!?

My dad had to pull up on the sidewalk to get close enough

Fun times

Going over to the other car

Backing out the unpowered car

Backing away

The cable is in place

Dad charging up the car

Cars

..cars

Rob at Papa Ginos

James is hiding

I love Rob's look..

James with his face

Looking through boxes..

The fridge

Looking in the fridge

This is where the soda from the fountain comes from

Concentrated Mountain Dew

A little leakage

James found his Hoodsies

Nice goatee James

"Why would a calendar making company have a month's name for their company name?"

Rob sitting on the counter

Stop smoking, Rob!

Rob and Joe smoking

Rob looking around

Atomic bowling!

Lasers!

Rob's a ghost!

Rob bowling

Pins flying around

Falling pins

Pins falling everywhere

I took this one by accident but I kind of like it

Lights...

Bowling

15 second exposure

People bowling

Atomic fun

Rob takes a moment before bowling

Rob bowling again

Colorful

James standing around

I like the purple light

James poses.. kind of

Pins flying around

Long exposure is fun

Final scores for game one

Rob sitting around

Everyone got 9 on their first roll of the second game

The Good Try Ducks!

One of those "stop the light" games with some good prizes

A $100 bill!

Isabelle and Strawberry!

Aren't they cute?

Isabelle's looking around

What's over there?

Isabelle closeup

Kitties!

A helicopter flying over the mall

James plays on one of those projector games

You can step on books or something

Up close you can see the pixels

James steps on the game

No Wii's in stock, but plenty of PS3s

This is not a plushie!

The projector game again, this time in the Liberty Tree Mall!

It's not really that much fun

James plays again

The Jumpy Thing

I take a picture of James taking my picture

Let's take pictures of Rob!

Hahaha, again, no Wii's, but they've got eight PS3s

Stupid PS3

James is a Guitar Hero

Looks like he botched a note

He got pretty good at it

Some kid on The Jumpy Thing

James selects a DDR song

He ended up doing A, Orion, and Drop Out

James DDRing

Step step!

Rob says "I think I can win at Skiball"

Rob watches as James melts to death

It's like a first person shooter!

This photo wasn't even staged

James takes a break after Drop Out

Time to get up!

Someone had already put money in this machine!

James is going to be all that he can be

We found a broken gumball machine

James is making faces

James makes a creepy face

Rob!

This "Zoltar" obviously used to be a woman

Look at the painted fingernails and rings!

It even has lipstick on! The beard is just curly hair put on the face!

How weird is it to buy Magic like this?

Rob has Zabusa's sword!

James is a Guitar Hero again!

Go man go!

Horsey!

Good horsey

A ray gun!

Awww, isn't that cute

James is ashamed of the previous picture

Jack McCoy?

Galadriel?

Gimli's actually a big fan of Brigham's

Eowyn

You could go to the Liberty Tree Mall and turn left at the Jumpy Thing. Past the Shrine of the Silver Monkey....

Bilbo stopped by too

James has a hat

These shamrocks just get weirder and weirder

Time to poke Rob!

Cover your ears!

Nooooo!

This was the best name they could come up with

James gets ready to suit up

James is psyched

Getting suited up!

James is flying!

The guy jumped on to help James get some momentum

Look at him fly

Having fun!

Jumping through the mall

James does a backflip

Jumpin' James

In the midst of a double backflip

Coming out of a flip

Whooooo

Jump for joy!

James is having a lot of fun

Now he wants one in his house

Rob didn't want to do it

Getting lowered

The power socket for my project.

Learning how to use lights.. The white LEDs are really bright

The board without the white LEDs

With all elements turned off

The 7 segment LED display

The nice folks at EB gave me a chair to sit in while waiting for a Wii

The EB

#3 in line. She's getting it for her kids. Nice lady

#2 in line. Getting it for himself and his whole household. He was cool too

The UPS truck is here!!

The packages are coming!

The guy's bringing them over here

In the store!

Headed to the back of the store

Box full of Wiis!

You can practically feel the anticipation

The EB guy with his box!

Cutting open the box

Wiis!!!!

There's my Wii

#3 in line took this picture for me. Nerdy, but awesome

There it is

Opening the box..

Contents of box #1

Contents of box #2

I made my dad a Mii

For comparison..

Me vs my dad

My 81 year old grandmother took a round at Wii Bowling

She was pretty good!

Say it loud, say it proud

My Wii in its new home.. kind of a shrine

Closeup of the Wii logo

The Wiimote

The top of the Wiimote

The power button on the Wii

The sensor bar

The plastic stand sticks to the TV

The back of my Japanese story. I forgot there was a back..

Brandon gets read to box

A hook with the left!

Get him with the right!

Don't forget to block your face!

Get him, Brandon!

Just don't punch the TV!

A longer exposure of some Wii action

He's blurry with the movement

Our checks from PayPerPost finally arrived. Watch for us on a commercial on national TV!

Some cops on horses rode by since there was a parade on Park Ave

I just barely got these shots out

Bryce is psyched

Bryce drew this picture of Kratos killing other video game characters. Although later he said Kratos didn't do it..

Mel drew this crazy picture of Bill Cosby. Be sure to click on it..

One of my awesome new LCD screens

It is enormous

And it is gorgeous. These are the wires for the backlight

Very fine wires on the back

Lots of integrated circuits

And some capacitors?

More ICs

Oooo

This is where the data goes. 20 pin interface

Quarter for scale. This thing is going to be beautiful if I can figure out how to use it

Messing around with a keypad..

See? It works.. kind of

Closeup of the keypad

My reading light

The white LEDs are very bright

And it runs off a 9 volt battery!

I threw a perfect game in darts

My desk is kind of messy

Brett watching a movie

Hi Tony

Brandon takes aim

Careful Brandon!

Smashley and Scott, who was here visiting

Smash yells about something

Brandon and Scott

Brandon drank a lot of wine

Hey look, it's Nick...... great....

Hanging out!

Everyone's looking everywhere!

Lookin' around

Brandon puts the squishy pillow on Smashley's head

Poor Smash

And that's how you do that

This really seems to ask "Why not kill yourself?"

A part of my microchip arsenal

I got a silicone cover for my Wiimote

It's neato

Helps you hold on to it

There's one for the nunchuk too

This area is kind of a mess

Chips and crap everywhere

This is supposed to make an LCD say.. .anything. It doesn't.

Bryce poses with one of his latest creations

Making a face..

You can practically feel the emotion

Bryce seems displeased with his nose

Hahaha, I really like this one. "You played Haruka Kanata"

I put some white lights on my bed

They are very very bright

These lights work their way through the spectrum

It takes 30 minutes to do one cycle

Blueish...

Yellowish..

Pinkish...

I ordered something from www.allelectronics.com and it came in this weird box

ES UNA SALSA...MUY SALSA!

Note the "All Electronics" label, and the "Hot Sauce" label

Swipe card reader, capacitors, LCD screens

LCD screens and.. lots of other electronics

Cases, solder, soldering iron, multimeter..

7-segment displays, LEDs, resistors, buttons, a motor

Jumper cables, resistors, speakers, etc

My huge LCDs

A few circles and chips

Some new tools

Lots of chips and my new LCD

Swipe card reader

JDM Programmer

Now obsolete since I have the Microchip programmer