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	<title>Ed Rooth</title>
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		<title>Arduino Microcontroller</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I got around to buying my first microcontroller. It&#39;s a piece of hardware that is part of the Arduino&#160;open-source electronics prototyping platform. So basically what that means is that ordinary folks can create their own electronics projects cheaply. I&#39;ve always wanted to build evil robots but just never got around to it, but now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img align="left" alt="" class="photo" height="220" src="http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Main/arduino316.jpg" width="316" />Finally I got around to buying my first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller" target="_blank">microcontroller</a>. It&#39;s a piece of hardware that is part of the <a href="http://www.arduino.cc" target="_blank">Arduino</a>&nbsp;<em>open-source electronics prototyping platform.</em> So basically what that means is that ordinary folks can create their own electronics projects cheaply. I&#39;ve always wanted to build evil robots but just never got around to it, but now my mad scientists dreams will become a reality.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I&#39;ll be working on making some cool projects <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arduino&amp;search_type=&amp;aq=f" target="_blank">like these</a>, but the main goal is to build my own mini synthesizer.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I was able to buy mine at one of the electronics stores in Akihabara for only &yen;3,200 ($32). I got some other accessories pretty cheaply at this great store <a href="http://akizukidenshi.com" target="_blank">Akizukidenshi</a>, very cheap and worth checking out.</p>
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<p>I&#39;ll be posting my progress, so check back soon.</p>
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<p><em>*Thanks to the good folks at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tokyohackerspace.org" target="_blank">Tokyo Hackerspace</a>&nbsp;for introducing me to the Arduino stuff.&nbsp;</em></p>
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		<title>New Website!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new website. Whoo hoo!
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After a few weekends of laying out a design, CSS-ing, HTML-ing, and configuring Wordpress I finally have my new website up and ready to roll. Of course it&#39;s not &#34;finished&#34; because we all know that a website is never finished, but at least it&#39;s presentable. So bear with me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a new website. Whoo hoo!</p>
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<p>After a few weekends of laying out a design, CSS-ing, HTML-ing, and configuring Wordpress I finally have my new website up and ready to roll. Of course it&#39;s not &quot;finished&quot; because we all know that a website is never finished, but at least it&#39;s presentable. So bear with me as I iron out the kinks, as this is very much work-in-progress.</p>
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<p>Anyway I created this site because&nbsp;<a href="http://jedutainment.com">my old site</a>&nbsp;was a bit too specific to only one of my interests. Here I&#39;ll be writing about and linking to various topics. Anything ranging from Life in Japan to Electronics to Music Production to Photography. However, may&nbsp;all non-nerds be forewarned &#8212; since I am a computer scientist, spend too much time on this Internetweb thing, and am a pro Web Developer &#8212; I will be posting much about Web Development techie related things. Wether you&#39;re into techie stuff or not, hopefully you&#39;ll find something of interest here. Please feel free to comment and send me feedback.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Oh, and also&#8230; don&#39;t forget to checkout the <a href="/lifestream">nifty Lifestream area of the site</a> where you can follow all of what I&#39;m up to recently via my interactions on The Internet.</p>
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