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20080116 Wednesday January 16, 2008

Sun Service Hiring Clones?

I just went to read Jonathan's latest blog entry about our acquiring MySQL AB and what do I see but this picture about half way down.

Did I miss the memo? Is there a new policy that we have to hire identical twins nowadays in Sun Service? And they have to dress the same. Or a new cloning project in Sun Labs that I don't know about.

Or maybe it's just unfortunate Photoshop editing.

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( Jan 16 2008, 03:51:37 PM PST ) [Listen] Permalink

Roly Poly Pot Redux

I saw this post on Hackszine about a flower pot that will tilt over when it needs water.

That's cute, but why stop there? One article below it shows how you can use an Arduino board for helicopter control to stabalize the roll and pitch.

Why not combine the two? When the pot tips, the Arduino detects this and waters the plant. Hopefully the pot goes back to vertical and the water is turned off.

Now that would be a neat hack!

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( Jan 16 2008, 09:42:32 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink