Category Archives: tech

Much-needed update

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ron

Just gave the ropes and pulleys holding up the ozrock.net stuff a much-needed update. Hopefully all is working.

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Arg

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Ron

Just fixing this again (argh). Bear with me. Pictures are down, and other stuff. Fixed this weekend. Update: Mostly fixed now. Some of the older images and links still down. The new WordPress MU has been a bit persnickety.

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My dad and the electro-assist bicycle

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Ron

In the 60′s and 70′s, my dad worked off and on on building one of these things in the garage; he called it the “Friction Compensator”. (eROCKIT electro-assist bicycle) I’m not kidding. He was an electrical engineer by education, and … Continue reading →

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Building the T-1 for Skynet

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Ron

Australia seeks new army robots — an “intelligent and fully autonomous system” capable of carrying out dangerous surveillance missions.

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Arrgghh! Crash and reboot

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Ron

This site went totally flaky.  So, reboot. UPDATE: Got most of the posts back; there’s a few from May that didn’t make it. POST-UPDATE:  Everything’s working now, basically.

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Objects of my youthful lust

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Ron

BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes – Boing Boing.

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