Life in general

The guys over at Trossen Robotics are throwing a “not so official contest” and giving away 5 free RedBee Experimenter’s Kits. From the Trossen contest page; Here is what I’m thinking. Those of you who are interested and can pull yourselves away from your robots for a few hours can pitch for one of the [...]

The kit includes a RedBee RFID reader module, several RFID tags in various form factors, and a software CD with full source code for the following applications; RFID Logger – Learn programming techniques to communicate with the RedBee RFID reader. RFID Deadbolt – Enhance an electronic deadbolt to accept RFID authentication. RFID Login – Log [...]

Ok, so my last post was apparently very timely. In it, I was bitching about how banks know for a fact that you don’t have enough funds in your account before authorizing a debit card transaction, and they could decline the whole transaction, but they authorize it anyway just so they can charge you an [...]