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Anime list

An interesting top-list of anime:
http://www.squidoo.com/top-anime-list

Appliance Parts

http://www.partselect.com/
Seems to have just about every part you'd ever really need for most appliances. I'm probably going to need to order a new heating element and/or socket for my stove-top.

Also, this is awesome for diagnosing:
http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/appliance/range/diagerange.php

Beginning work on MP3 Car Stereo

Hardware


Platform


After a lot of research into various ARM chips (mostly Atmel's AT91), audio codecs and the various support I would have to design just to use them, I've ultimately decided that it will be far more cost effective for me to use a pre-made platform ...

DIY PCB CNC

USB hacking! =D

Maybe I'll actually get around to hacking my barely useful OBDII code-reader into at least spitting codes out to the console rather than having to write them down by hand ^.^

http://hackaday.com/2009/08/20/reverse-engineering-usb-drivers/

Quixter for fun

My friend is responsible for the level generation code and a couple of visual tweaks :-)

http://www.luxanimals.com/quixter/

Possibilities

http://rochester.craigslist.org/mcy/1200719663.html
http://rochester.craigslist.org/mcy/1199933997.html

If I sell the shitty civic in my garage for ~$1000, autoanything.com has hitches for ~$160 and electrical for ~$30.

Airport replacement (or reseating)

From what I've read, it seems there might be a slight issue with Apple's airport driver, but it's also a well known fact that Apple laptops (even the older models) can sometimes have their airport cards or antenna come loose. If I get up the courage to actually open my macbook, I'll need the following tear-down guide to safely do so, so that I can reseat the antenna connectors and airport card itself.

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/68749_install-or-upgrade-the-airport-wire...

OBD project

These guys implemented an ELM327+MCP2557 to communicate with any post 1996 car and show the results on an LCD.
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/s2009/ama64...

Tao of Programming

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

A novice asked the Master: ``Here is a programmer that never designs, documents or tests his programs. Yet all who know him consider him one of the best programmers in the world. Why is this?''

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