It’s been a while! I just finish my semester and going my last intern in Québec. I will be working all summer long until September.

Here is my latest research on fingernail growth rate.

This is serious experimentation! I was watching TV with my dad and they where talking about this woman who died in the woods and explained how long and where she been before she died by analyzing her hair.

An university in Ontario have developed this technique where they analyse hair to see what type mineral is found in it. They explained that she was a traveling along the west of Canada because certain mineral are found more in Alberta. (Something along those lines)

So anyway, my dad and I where wondering how long does the hair growth after death. Then we start talking about other stuff that still growth when you are dead, like fingernail. We then both made a marking on our thumbs with a razor blade and start forgetting about it… till one day (may 5th) I took a last picture.

There you go! 96 days!

So what about the electric scooter you ask? Well, I am waiting on my broken charger from hobbyking to ride it soon! I will explain tomorrow in my next post.

I can tell you that this is not a rumor, here is the proof!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a83rKWP_IlU

It is time for me to present to you my business card. During my internship at www.Solarbotics.com I was fortunate to get and design my own business card for the MakerFaire 2009. I had some crazy ideas and took effort to get this one accepted! It was finally accepted by my boss.

The idea is to make this resistor bender so it can be useful to you when you assemble a kit. On one of  my semester project at University, we had this huge PCB that was a amplifier and we had to solder a bunch for 1/4W resistor. I then decided to make a little quick and dirty resistor bender out of alumiun to help me in assembling my PCB.  It turn out to be really usefull.

Here is the picture of alumium version.

Then the prototyping started using my printer. I started with normal business card and cut holes in it then I use CorelDRAW to make the final version.

These one came from CorelDRAW and then printed on a normal printer. I used cardboard paper.

The plan of my original idea was to able to bend two type of resistor leg width.

A other idea, was  when the card was finish, it could also rest like a mini name plate on your desk my desk.

At maker faire, I meet a lot of nice people and here is some cool business card I got.

This one is a sticker!

Limor had those limited aluminium card. I got the last one I also got her Laser cut SPIROGRAPH cards!

Here are some tips if you ever get other people business card. The first one was a tip that I learned from Dave (my boss at Solarbotics) when we went to this really nice electronics expo.

1. Take notes. When you are at a faire, you see a lot of people and get a lot of business card. So write down immediately on the back of the card what you where talking with that person. In my case, I had sponsorship proposal, website link, product samples, etc.  We once help a mechanical engineer from 3M and he gave us his buisness card and he told us “if you need anything from 3M, you tell me and I will make it happen.” So I wrote down the time and every detail about the problem/project we help him solved. We never know what will happen next! 3M is one huge company!

   Here is a example of stuff I wrote on a card after talking to Collin Cunningham we where talking about this website that provide a single place to uploads to major video sharing sites. I have no clue why I did not write that link on his buisness card…
   

   

2. Make a backup. After MakerFaire, I had a lot of card. I then got this idea to make a backup and took pictures of all my business card just in case I lost them.
3. Get in touch. After a few days, send some email to thanks people you meet and get the first inital contact. That will help in the futur when you will need there expertise.

I hope you enjoyed, if you want my card, please come and see me at the solarbotics booth at MakerFaire 2010! See you there!

ps- I will also have my new Beetle bot kit!!

I am slowly adding my other projects. I have the layout done, it will look exactly like “My instructables” but with different projects.

For the “Top post” page, I wanted to have the most popular pages, but it does not seem to work. It gives me the lastest post… I tried using “Top Posts By Category ” by M&M but never got it to work. I then tried this other plugging “Latest Posts by Category Archive”Returns a list of your latest posts, organized by category. … humm let me read that again… I now know why it gives me the lastest post! What a failure! I will then try to get the “Top Posts By Category” working!

I am posting with w.bloggar. I can see html code when I am writting, I guest this is not a WYSIWYG editor “what you see is what you get”. I figure out how to import images… but there is no fancy editing except the html that I see here. That could be annoying when you have more then one images with different width and height.

btw, Rudy has already started the schematic of the motor controller, almost done. I might get the dev board soon!

I am also trying to get a livescribe pen, I really want one!