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Here’s a fun design for a steerable can antenna driven by servos and a PIC microcontroller. The page is a little light on details, but since Adrian is a local, maybe we can get him to bring it to hack night (or even field day…)

This week proved to be a fun, mellow, Pho-filled hack night. Hilights:

Ame-Link 1900MHz phone experiment. Have you ever had a cordless phone that sends SMS? All it needs is a bigger antenna.
At almost the seven week mark, I finally got my replacement PowerBook battery. The old one is now the USPS’s [...]

I’ve been doing a brief (and early) hack night visit lately due to a scheduling conflict. But this week I actually got something done: I helped Joe debug an odd problem with Ubuntu (Dapper) and VMWare. It seems that while Ubuntu correctly detects the virtual hard drive as a SCSI device, the boot [...]