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	<title>Split Reaction</title>
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	<description>Random Acts of Engineering</description>
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		<title>D.A.V.E. the Turret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of my friends and I took the mechatronics class at our university last year. For our final project we built an autonomous sentry turret capable of picking out people in a room and shooting them down. We called it the Digital Assignation &#38; Violence Entity, or D.A.V.E. for short. We think this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/d-a-v-e-the-turret/</link>
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		<title>Halloween 2009</title>
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This weekend I was carving pumpkins with my girlfriend. Pumpkin carving, a soothing time to bond, relax, and justify having power tools. Rather than hacking away at a pumpkin with a dinner blade, my trusty jigsaw and dremel did most of the cuts and an exacto knife detailed. It was much less effort and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/halloween-2009-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Saw Dust Cannon</title>
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Sawdust Cannon. from Ben Stone on Vimeo.
Hehe, now someone go build a rapid fire version.
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		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/saw-dust-cannon/</link>
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		<title>Dyson Air Multiplier (seriously it&#8217;s a fan)</title>
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No it&#8217;s not a stargate, believe it or not it&#8217;s a bladeless fan. This fan blows a stream out of the blue ring. The blue ring has a special airfoil shape  that can magnify the airflow up to 15x. Since it involves no blades this stream is uninterrupted. This fan seems pretty cool (if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/dyson-air-multiplier-seriously-its-a-fan/</link>
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		<title>Fallout 3 Buffout, in real life!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made own my real life Buffout! Check it out:

It&#8217;s really easy to make. All you need is a handful of items.

Label:
Get the label from this site: http://www.weeklygeekshow.com/2009/07/fallout_cosplay_accoutrements.php
Scroll down a little until you reach the template for buffout (it&#8217;s going to be a link to a jpg file). Once you download it you&#8217;re going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/fallout-3-buffout/</link>
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		<title>Petri Dish Audio Meter</title>
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Matthew Shieh created this very interesting audio meter. Instead of the typical LM3915 VU meter, Matt  designed the amplifier to capture ambient sound from a small mic. For the interface he used a photoresistor and capacitive touch button controlled by a PIC16F716 . The photoresistor lets him dim the LEDs when it&#8217;s dark to save [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/petri-dish-audio-meter/</link>
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		<title>Tron the Movie</title>
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Yes they made a movie out of it. I gotta say I do like my dystopian societies.
Fellow geeks commence drooling.
Thanks andiE for finding it.
~dye
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		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/tron-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Big Bad Wolf, Vortex Cannon Style</title>
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Chris linked me to this video, it&#8217;s a vortex cannon on steroids. When a spherical mass of a fast moving fluid moves through the air,  it can form torroid shaped vortex rings, similar to blowing smoke rings. This helps the mass stay together as it moves through the air so its almost like an invisible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/big-bad-wolf-vortex-cannon-style/</link>
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		<title>Workshop: Melting and Casting Metal</title>
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Lionel Oliver has an amazing site documenting his experiments metaling and casting metal. He shows how to build a variety of furnances from a simple charcoal furnance out of bricks and dirt to more complex propane furnaces. The best part is he does this all in his backyard.
Once you can melt metal you can start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/melting-and-castin-metal-at-home/</link>
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		<title>Iron Man Gauntlet</title>
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Ilya, (one of the other editors) informed me the other day of how he found my Spanish clone. Turns out somewhere in Canada there is an electrical engineer named Carlos who hosts a pretty cool project blog Carlitoscontraptions.com. A lot of his hardware projects match ones I&#8217;ve done in the past.
I&#8217;m particularly a fan of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.splitreaction.com/iron-man-gauntlet/</link>
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