This project was inspired by Aftotech’s Hard Drive Speakers page 4 . Basically the voice coil drive circuit was located on the hard drive controller board and disconnected by cutting a trace. The voice coil was metered and was found to be 10 ohms, this was within range to be driven directly from my stereo speaker output.

This is bad ass... What a great (but useless) idea... time to get the VOM and some torx bits out...

Hard Drive Laser Oscilloscope

You may be wondering if this tax rebate will affect your 2008 federal return next year.

Let us try to answer this question for you. The tax rebate is an advance credit for 2008 and will be calculated on your 2008 return. Now this is important: you are receiving a portion of your 2008 credit EARLY and if you receive it once, you won t receive it again when you file your 2008 return.

And, this is important too: if you re due a higher tax rebate, you ll get the remainder next year when you file. If you received a higher rebate than you should have, you DO NOT have to pay it back. So far, so good.

A tax rebate is not interest, it s not income, it s not a dividend. Pure and simple, and this is worth saying again, the tax rebate payment is an ADVANCE CREDIT for tax year 2008 and will be calculated on your 2008 return when you file in 2009.

So for now, all you have to do is think about whether you will save it, pay down bills or splurge on something you ve always wanted.

So I still get it in the whoo-haaa in 2008... How Grand!
Thanks Prez. Bush!

Tax Rebate Defined ...

If anyone uses Suntrust be aware that they use your soical security number and your full name when sending you inter/ra company emails...

FYI...

SunTrust Security Problem...

Jim, an emotionally immature teen, learns to evaluate his personality and to better work out his problems.

Old videos that are great.. some funny ones...

Act Your Age

To kick off the third season of 30 Days, series creator Morgan Spurlock returns to his home state of West Virginia, to work as a rookie apprentice coalminer known as a "redhat" for 30 days.

Morgan goes to Bolt, West Virginia and lives with Dale and Sandy Lusk. Dale, the supervisor of the mine where Morgan works, has mined coal for 35 years and introduces Morgan to a miner's way of life. Morgan gains an understanding of the financial benefits that draw people to coal mining, but also learns, first hand, the dangerous conditions that miners must face every day.

As a new miner, Morgan is assigned much of the grunt work, including plastering, building wooden roof supports, shoveling coal and hauling heavy

Great show.... According to promos run during the season premiere of The Riches, Season 3 of 30 Days will premiere on June 3, 2008 and Spurlock has announced that each third-season episode will be an hour long.

Third season hit on these topics/dates...

Working in a Coal Mine June 3, 2008
Living in a Wheelchair June 10, 2008
Animal Rights June 17, 2008
Same Sex Parenting June 24, 2008
Gun Nation July 1, 2008
Life on an Indian Reservation July 8, 2008

If you have never seen 30 Days you should... :)

30 Days Returns to FX June 3rd 2008

A uCHobby reader informed us of a design contest Renesas is running with prizes of $15,000 in cash. Renesas provides a free $80 evaluation board to work with as part of the contest so no one actually looses. Thanks to Daniel Johnson for passing the news.

The theme of the contest is applications for their new Target Server COM object. Which is their name for a new way to communicate with their microcontrollers. Instead of adding another serial or USB interface to your design which uses up I/O on the processor you can take advantage of the built in debug interface as a communications channel. The possible applications should be endless as they are looking for a neat microcontroller application that works with a PC.

The free HTS demo kit includes a MC16C/26A hardware board, USB cable, and CDs with example code for both the hardware and the PC in C++ and Visual Basic. Also included is Microsoft Visual Studio Express C++ and VB.

There is also an opportunity to get a free H8/36077 kit just by filling out an application form. This is not part of the contest, just a celebration giveaway.

I also got my free brd today... I hope to see your projects there... and it is FREE! :)

Renesas Target Server Design Contest

For the record. I am the head of the deportment enforcement department of Industrial Memetics, www.memestreams.com chapter. I am similar to a pinkerton for the information superhighway, by trade. I am here to uphold the memestreams community. Your post lacked content. That's the sort of thing you send an email over. You posted a derogatory comment about me in this post. That is one demerit. Keep it up and you will be asked to take a break from your posting with us. Ask Tom and Nick if you have any worthwhile questions.

Tom,

I have to say what the hell is this guy talking about...? (Vile?)
And if this is true please delete my account and and the posts that go along with it. I like the memestreams design and concept but this is total bull if true and I really dont want to feel as if I wasting my time...

Gavin

FRIDAY NIGHT GAME 5 VIEWING PARTY AT THE SOMMET CENTER
STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS—PREDATORS VS. RED WINGS

The Preds-Red Wings game will be shown this Friday night on Nashville's largest indoor screen -- the Megatron -- at the Sommet Center. Doors open at 6pm, televised game starts at 6:30pm.

* FREE admission!
* Gnash and the Predators Dancers will be there.
* Concession stands will be open with specially-priced food.
* Special $5 parking rate at the South Lot - just behind the Sommet Center
* Contests and activities at intermissions.
* Inflatable games for the kids.

See you there! GO PREDS!!!

Nashville Predators

We love anything that's dead simple. And you can't get anymore simple than Muxtape. The online service does one thing — let you create and share mixtape-like MP3 playlists with friends. With a 15-second signup, 1-click uploading and playback, and beautifully minimal playlist pages, Muxtape is our new music-savvy friend.

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who the hell is the user Vile? He/she/it is very annoying....
and not really contributing anything more that being a scant turd...