Category Archives: Electronics

Curiosity

Posted on 2012-08-08 by Nigel VH

Curiosity has been all over the news and whatnot lately. To be honest though, I don’t think it can be said enough. NASA has repeatedly delivered beyond imagination. They deserve every cent of their budget and 1,000,000% more. As an … Continue reading →

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New SSD

Posted on 2012-07-02 by Nigel VH

Last week I was browsing for SSD options for some computers at work, and personally lusting after one of them. Then, as if it were predestined, NewEgg emails me the next day saying, “Oh, Remember that SSD you were lusting … Continue reading →

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Monitor Troubles

Posted on 2012-06-09 by Nigel VH

Well, for a while now one of my two monitors has had an issue where upon power up, the backlight would flicker for a short time then would run normally. However, in recent history it’s been getting worse in that … Continue reading →

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2012 Balloons Launch

Posted on 2012-05-21 by Nigel VH

On Saturday, May 19th, 2012 we traveled to Moses Lake, WA to launch our high altitude balloon for the ESS205 : Access to Space class at the University of Washington. The balloon made it to over 100,000′ before popping, and … Continue reading →

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IC-706MKII-G Install

Posted on 2012-05-07 by Nigel VH

Ordered the head extension cable and a mounting bracket for my Icom 706MKII-G last week, and they showed up in the mail on Saturday, so I had a good time on saturday afternoon figuring out how to get the rig … Continue reading →

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