Ron's Home Page » tech http://ozrock.net/ron Just somewhere I post stuff Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:23:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Much-needed update http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/12/30/much-needed-update/ http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/12/30/much-needed-update/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:39:25 +0000 Ron http://ozrock.net/ron/?p=1924 Just gave the ropes and pulleys holding up the ozrock.net stuff a much-needed update. Hopefully all is working.

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Update: Mostly fixed now. Some of the older images and links still down. The new WordPress MU has been a bit persnickety.

]]> http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/01/22/hello-world/feed/ 0 My dad and the electro-assist bicycle http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/30/my-dad-and-the-electro-assist-bicycle/ http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/30/my-dad-and-the-electro-assist-bicycle/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:45:50 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1755 Continue reading →]]> 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 also converted a 1947 Crossley to electric power with a big rack of lead-acid batteries in the back. Drove me to kindergarten in it a few times.

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]]> http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/17/building-the-t-1-for-skynet/feed/ 0 Arrgghh! Crash and reboot http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/07/arrgghh-crash-and-reboot/ http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/07/arrgghh-crash-and-reboot/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:05:20 +0000 Ron http://ron.ozrock.net/?p=1444 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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BB Video: Inside Electro-Harmonix, guitar pedal engineers and vintage vacuum tubes – Boing Boing.

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