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Just ordered @Wendys a dead lettuce salad with a ROACH stuck on...

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:30:38 -0500

Salad with a side of ROACH

burnt potato

Just ordered @Wendys a dead lettuce salad with a ROACH stuck on there and a burnt potato. Get it together! 27&CornhuskerHwy

Arduino Powered Stepper Motor Board (Open Source Hardware)

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:53:43 -0500

Arduino Powered Stepper Motor Board (Open Source Hardware):

This board has an Arduino 328 built in that is compatible with other Arduino shields. USB is used to communicate, not the old parallel ports. It has 3 drivers built in but you can add more. There’s an output for a fan to cool it.

The EAGLE schematics will be released as open source hardware after Kickstarter is funded (which is July 16).

I started this project so robotics developers can get up and going with their project whether it is a CNC mill, laser engraver, 3d printer, or a world dominating robot.

I’ve had my share of disappointments with other drivers. Yes, I bought a China made driver from ebay lol. 2 out of 3 axes worked, not good for the price of $60. It only “works” on ancient computers with a parallel port and Ubuntu installed or some costly Windows software. Had fun with EasyDrivers after soldering all the many wires. I don’t mind doing the extra work if it functions but they do get extremely hot even with a cooling system. Also, I thought about how many people could be overwhelmed with not knowing how to solder and/or wire them together.

Check out the specs at kickstarter.

Who knew that we would come this far when we made a DIY CNC from...

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Mon, 16 May 2011 05:51:00 -0500

Who knew that we would come this far when we made a DIY CNC from junk we had laying around a month ago?

John and I have 29 days to raise $12,000 at kickstarter. If successful, it would allow us to develop low cost 3D printers, laser engravers, and more. Making various CNCs as available as inkjet printers are today. The first picture is the 2nd prototype. It’s what $280 donors get if we meet our funding goal. Please support us by taking a look at the kickstarter page or sharing with someone who is interested in CNCs. Views are just as helpful as $1 pledges.

website: cncsnap.com
CNC Snap kickstarter: http://kck.st/mI80lj

Wiring Schematic Download Arduino Uno or Duemilanova +...

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:42:00 -0500

Wiring Schematic Download

Arduino Uno or Duemilanova
+ (3)EasyDriver v4.2-4.4
+ (3)Bipolar Stepper Motor

^{DIY CNC by amyherndon.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.}

DIY CNC Instructable

absoluticris: need a weekend project? are your walls pale as...

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:48:12 -0500

absoluticris:

need a weekend project?

are your walls pale as your skin?

looking for a way to splurge your creativity?

ENTER THE RASTERBATOR!!! (dont get it confused with something else my mind in the gutter friends)

the process is simple, the rasterbator takes your image and rasterizes it into a larger version thats converted into a pdf which allows you print and display your creation.

here are some examples of it use, im not going to preach how you should use it…your imagination is responsible for that.

The Rasterbator

Best Firefox Add-ons

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:01:00 -0500

After downloading Mozilla’s browser Firefox, you can get all of these add-ons in a updated collection at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/bestfirefoxadd-ons.

Video DownloadHelper is a free Firefox extension for downloading and converting images, videos, and music from many sites like with minimum effort. Huge list of movie sites! It downloads and converts images, videos, and blip.fm and youtube.

Yoono All your social networks, instant messaging, and an rss reader in one easy to use browser sidebar. Get all your friend updates, update your status and share stuff easily across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, Google Talk, AIM, Windows Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and more - all at once! Simplify your online social life. My 1st add-on that I’m keeping installed with an advertisement (which is small). Would be one of my favorite favorites if it didn’t have any ads. I put up with the ads because now I can uninstall Flock as my social media browser.

Google Preview inserts thumbnails and popularity ranks of web sites into Google and Yahoo search results pages.

PDF Download Use PDF Download to do whatever you like with PDF files on the Web. Regain control of them and eliminate browser problems, view PDFs directly in Firefox as HTML, and use the all-new Web-to-PDF toolbar to save and share Web pages as high-quality PDF files.

bit.ly preview & twitter web preview With the bit.ly Preview Plugin for Firefox, whenever you hover over a bit.ly URL on any web page, it displays a tooltip showing the Page Title, Long URL, and any Click Data we have about the page the URL links to. If you hover over another short URL, http://tinyurl.com/5qhkwo, for example, we show the Page Title and Long URL for these links as well. Plus, we check to see if anyone made a bit.ly link pointing to the same place, and, if so, we show how many clicks it has received.***Must-have add-on for twitter.com! I don’t click on links unless i hover over them with this first to make sure they are safe. Also helps if you hover over replies to see what someone is replying to, without going to their page. It’s easy to set up a bit.ly account if you want it to keep stats of clicks/link. Also, tinyurl sucks because it takes up more of your 140 characters.***

Share video on Vodpod The Share Video button from Vodpod.com makes it easy to share videos from 1000s of sites, or to post those videos with a single click to your blog. Works with all video sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, etc…, plus TheDailyShow.com, Southparkstudios.com and more.

Cooliris Full-Screen, 3D — Cooliris is simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll a “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.

AutoPager AutoPager automatically loads the next page when you reach the end of the page. It works on a ton of sites, like Google,Yahoo, etc.

Speed Dial Direct access to your most visited websites.

Shareaholic for Firefox Shareaholic is the ultimate add-on for the link sharing addict! If you use any site like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Google Bookmarks, StumbleUpon, etc you’ll likely enjoy having Shareaholic by your side. No more looking for web publisher provided buttons, and no more bookmarklets piling up.

Project Gutenberg Online - Free Book Catalog

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:01:00 -0500

Project Gutenberg Online - Free Book Catalog:

There are over 28,000 free books online at the
Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

Top 100 Books on Project Gutenberg

Audio Book, Computer-Generated

Audio Book, Human-Read

♫ Free Sheet Music ♫

♫ Music, Recorded ♫

03.30.09 My Crosseyed Chloe

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500

03.30.09 My Crosseyed Chloe

Pic 03.16.09 Chloe sleeping all weird

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:05:00 -0500

Pic 03.16.09 Chloe sleeping all weird

03.07.09 Chloe sleeping. So cute!

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:17:00 -0600

03.07.09 Chloe sleeping. So cute!

12.24.08 - Chloe in snow on Vegas Trip

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:09:00 -0600

12.24.08 - Chloe in snow on Vegas Trip

10.30.08 A pumpkin I did with Katlyn

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:22:00 -0500

10.30.08 A pumpkin I did with Katlyn

10.24.08 Pumpkin I did of Deuce & Chloe the stencil i made...

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:40:00 -0500

10.24.08 Pumpkin I did of Deuce & Chloe

the stencil i made for Deuce and Chloe pumpkin

09.28.08 Chloe’s 2008 Halloween costume (Playboy French...

Amy@AmyHerndon.com (Amy Herndon) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:00:00 -0500

09.28.08 Chloe’s 2008 Halloween costume (Playboy French Maid) to match mine. Deuce had a Hef costume. Crappy pic because she hated this costume. It was the biggest they made but still too small.