Thursday, October 9, 2014

Activities of the Evening

Bass Stick
  • drilled countersunk holes for battery holder in Bass Stick SN06
    • switch to 4-40 x1 1/2" countersunk bolts
    • stained holes dark
    • darkened holes on front

Electric Eel
  • practiced Christmas carols
  • discovered large amount of packing popcorn - and one kernel of popped corn! -inside body of Electric Eel
    • proposed to replace packing popcorn with a 1/8" wooden screen to protect speaker cone from damage
    • set aside large drill bit and wood material for this purpose
  • Gathered electromechanical data on 4" woofers from parts-express
    • https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B27wuPBwl_tbWG1aVmtydHN1eTg&usp=sharing

Contributions to World Health
  • Produced first ten slides in "Low-Glycemic Foods" presentation
    • G:\Dropbox\Research\Low Glycemic Food

 Skills
  • Learned to use Scraper under Chrome 
    • http://mnmldave.github.io/scraper/
    • http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/
    • http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp
  • Learned to manipulate spreadsheets from Google App Script:
    •  Found great book on the topic: https://leanpub.com/googlespreadsheetprogramming
  • Learned to use  d3 "force layout" object
    • http://synthshopping.com/fun/molecule/molecule.html
    • https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Force-Layout
    • http://nyquist212.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/simple-d3-js-force-layout-example-in-less-than-100-lines-of-code/

Discoveries
  •  http://leanpub.com - could write books on topics:
    • Electric Eels
    • Bass Stick
    • DSP Programming
    • One-Bit Groovebox
    • One-Bit Drum Machine

Podcasts
  • Shrink Rap radio, Exploring Mindful Dreaming with Rubin Naimain
    •  http://www.drnaiman.com/

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