Today we (the royal we) mourn the unfortunate passing of one of the central pillars of life. It is my unfortunate honor to inform myself that fate has called my V6s to a better place. A place where headphones may be truely happy. Such a cruel game is life; to tragicaly rip from the ears such...

I swear, he must have learned from watching the TV show. He even sits the exact same way: How many other people have pets that seem to resemble TV or movie animals?

Pretty much everyone has seen those feel good "motivational" posters. How many have looked at them, and wondered how anyone can keep a straight face while maning them? Well, I found Despair, Inc.. God I love this site. Some of the posters are instant classics. The sad thing is, most are true...

Went to Hawaii for a week. Wish it had been longer, there's just so much to do on Oahu alone, not counting the stupid tourist traps. So now, I'm jet lagged. I saw the sun rise, set, and then rise again today. My dogs are acting like I have suddenly returned from the dead. Unfortunatly...

Bah, this is such ********. Ok, here we go, two digital cameras, both with bundled software, both have the same asinine policies. Olympus: we scratched the cd, wanted $30+ for a new copy of the software. The software is REQUIRED to transfer the images from the camera. We ended up buying a...

Get your mind out of the gutter! How often have you only had one jack, but instead needed multiple ones? For example... if you have one laptop, four 5 hour flights, and three people who want to be able to listen to the dvd that is currently playing. Behold: the 3-Some! Separate volume...

totaly kills drill bits. I'm currently trying to drill a set of four cmoy PCBs, and even though having a drill press makes quick work of drilling the holes, the drilling has stopped. The drill bit I was using (a #58) no longer has any edge to it, it is dull as hell. And just look at how many...

I was looking at this power-amp kit that i have laying about, and the more I look at the circuit layout the more I think "is this really needed?" I would get rid of the bass/treble controls, but still I am suprised at the complexity. Does the output portion look strange to anyone else or is...

Well, it has been raining for perhaps a week straight now, so when the rain stopped for a while I grabbed my camera and went out to capture the coming spring, and to play with focus/object placement. What do you think? Image 1 (583KB) Image 2 (597KB) Image 3 (524KB) Image 4 (624KB)...

Check this out, I saw it tonight, and it was amazingly bright and very fast. Just really cool to relise something is in orbit. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...ing_index.html

Just poped my cd of the Two Towers soundtrack into my cd-rom to check out the bonus features, and kept noticing the varaity of audio stuff in the interview with Howard Shore. Check it out: http://www.lordoftherings-soundtrack.com/le/video.html In the highest quality on I think Shore is...

Be afraid, be very afraid. One of my amps is now actually presentable. I just don't know what came over me. White LEDs rock. Purty. Here are some medium sized pics (100-250K): http://people.clemson.edu/~lrhodes/box/0123.jpg http://people.clemson.edu/~lrhodes/box/0124.jpg...

What, in your opinion, the most annoying ad on commercial TV? Preferably not a local ad.

Yeah, got bored, spent about three hours assembling, two hours tweaking, here's the result: Gained Szekeres, 70mA per transistor. +/-5V PS. thoughts? edit: oh yeah, star power and pround, hence the jumble of wires. Signal goes through the small green wires.

I spent a while today installing a newer radio into a 1993 ford explorer. I figured it would be a plug-in replacement affair as I already had the wiring harnesses for ford vehicles. Turns out the explorer has "premium sound". This means that the radio is little more than a preamp, leaving an...

Watching the "Holiday at Pops" thing on A&E, and was just struck by the microphone in Martina McBride's hand. No, it was closer to being in her mouth. I understand the need to capture the sound for tv and all, but put the mic on a stand. This may sound stupid, and most of the people there don't...

I'm going to spend the next few few weeks getting together a review of a few different opamps to hopefully help people decide what to use. I have and plan to review the following: OPA134a OPA227 OPA228 AD843 AD845 I will use the same setup for all of them. A multiloop amp (same type...

Knowing there are a good number of head-fiers interested in photography I figured I'd ask for help here. I need some help selecting a gift for my sister. She has a Canon elos 7e body and a few lenses at the moment, but only has a small carrying case. I know she plans to go further into...

2AM, just got to my dorm after the football game where we beat our rivals (27-20), and I'm bored, so this results.

Ok, this isn't about headphones in any way. I have to make this device that will trigger a camera after 20 seconds, so basically just a timer isn't good enough, it has to be able to actuate something. We are allowed to use batteries, capacitors, resistors, inductors, and transistors, as far...

Well, I've just reformatted and made a norton ghost image of my computer on cd, and I was wondering how everyone else deals with the possiblity of HD failure (or os crashes). Pick one of the above

Well, I've decided to share with everyone the "experience" that is living in a dorm. My roomate is cool, as is most everyone else on the hall, except the bastards that live next to me. The floor in their room is MIA, smothered by piles of clothes and garbage. Unfortunatly the garbage...

Yay! My first wall-powered amp that I don't hate hate with a passion. Pictures here Key: 6: quick overview, low quality so dial up users can get a feel. 7: side view, pretty pointless 8: higher quality front view 10: rear-side view 14: overhead view of circuitry 15: overhead view of...

What I am planning to do kinda a stopgap amp. Baisically it will be either a multi-loop amp (META42 style) or a CHA 47 depending on which way a pair of DPDT swtiches are thrown. I am doing this because I have the parts for another CHA-47, but want to do a multiloop amp, and am too impatient to...

I noticed the prodigious posting rates that some head-fiers have and I was wondering how skilled a typist everyone is. Myself, I can touch type some things but I don't use the home keys like I should, but I am trying to rectify that by forcing myself to touch-type using the home keys. Dang it is...