
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 |