Pclix LT100 – Timelapse Photos Made Easy

Pclix100 timerTime-laps photos are just plane neat. Being able to see the progress of a shadow across a wall or the movement of stars over the length of a night like stepping out of time. Most of the time you have to sit next to your camera and press the shutter ever few seconds if you want to do this, as far as I know no DSLs come equipped with an intervalometer. Well if your not up to hitting the button a thousand times just to get that breathtaking thunderhead building up then the Pclix LT100 might be just what your looking for.

With the Pclix LT100 you can trigger the shutter of a digital camera every second or every hundred hours plus anywhere in between all in one second increments.

Timelapse Photography using the Pclix LT100 and the digital camera you already own.

Nippon 2007 Worldcon

Nippon 2007Being in Yokohama Japan at the end of August would be for many fans of science fiction could be the event of the year. Registration fee and location will keep all but the most dedicated of fen from attending but those who get a second mortgage or forgo grad school will have an totally other world experience. There is not much under programming (not a big surprise there, this far out it’s rare for a science fiction convention to have a definite list of programming) but from this you get the general idea:

English language programming will include the gamut of programming that Worldcons have come to expect.  Topics will range from aardvark (Animals in Space? Traditions of Animal Transformations in Eastern and Western Mythologies?) to zygote (Alien Biologies? Reproduction in Space?) and lots of ideas in between.

The usual convention events will be going on, a masquerade, dealers room, hall prizes, and the chance to talk to famous and not so famous people from all over the planet who all share have the common interest of scifi.
If this sounds like your idea of a good time you might want to browse though their fannish to Japanese phrase book so you know how to ask "Do you have that in a larger size?" Ganbatte kudasai!

Nippon 2007 – First WorldCon in Japan

LEGO Gear Ratios

Gears and Drivetrains in LEGO MindstormsAnother useful tool for getting all creative with your LEGOS. A handy tutorial showing you common ratios for the gears that are common to the LEGO Mindstorm kit. You can also find these gears in a variety of other LEGO sets. And if your totally flummoxed about what gears are just having a look around should answer some of your questions.

Gears and Drivetrains in LEGO Mindstorms

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