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First stage of guitar hero bot is complete!

We’ve successfully gotten the first stage of our guitar hero bot working. In the video below, you can see a prototype of our photodiode circuit correctly viewing the notes on the screen, and blinking the LED appropriately. For now, We are only detecting the green notes, but more are soon[…]

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Coming Soon: the Real-Time Guitar Hero Bot

So I’ve started my 6-week internship with Convolve Inc. along with 4 of my friends. It’s essentially a mechanical engineering firm; they do a lot of computer and hard drive work. Anyways, our project will be to build an automated guitar hero player. Yes, I know it’s been done before,[…]

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A 10 minute guide to Computer Building

Before building a fairly basic computer for my mother, I realized that the since I wasn’t doing anything extreme (like watercooling), this would be the ideal opportunity to make a simple instructional video for beginner computer builders. The result was an easy-to-follow 10 minute tutorial:

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P180 Mini Tower Case Review

This is my first review that I am conducting through UltimateComputers.net. It is for the Antec P180 mini case, which I am using in a future computer build. Since I had the case anyways, I figured I would review it.

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