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Laser Alarm Project

29 Dec

Ever since I saw the Laser Alarm Project on KipKay’s channel I knew it was something i wanted to make. I started by copying the circuit diagram down and then set to work trying to make the thing work. My RadioShack Electronics Learning Lab had all the components necessary to make it work and it was a case of getting technical and putting it together. I am very new to microelectronics and this was the first time i put a circuit together by just looking at it – so as it was my first time, it wasn’t going to be very easy. It took about an hour to work out how the cables all went together on the breadboard and finally i got it to work :)

Laser Alarm

Now i have it working on the breadboard the next stage is to put it together on a final IC board. That might be a little more complicated as i have never done it before. But I’m willing to try anything at least once :)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1133002/protect_your_home_with_laserbeams/

 
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Christmas Day 2009

25 Dec

DEL2 My family and I had a wonderful Christmas day. This Christmas was hosted by Anne-Marie and Marlon at there home and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We all opened presents and ate a wonderful dinner prepared by my sister and brother-in-law. Everyone had a go on the new WII console my sister Suzanne and Steve got for Christmas, but i never did as I’m not much of a game player. Little Riley and Lily i think had the most fun as they were very excited – and although this is Riley’s first Christmas, he was certainly having fun eating lol.

This Christmas I went down the Electronics Set Road and got lots of Electronics stuff to make my own circuit boards. From one of the sets there were tons of Resisters and i have just spend an hour deciphering what they all are with the help of a multi-metre, wall chart and resister information program. It was fun though :) I got a great Electronics Learning Lab too from RadioShack – which i am very excited about. I know people who use them are probably teens – but i am using it as my stepping stone to circuitry. I have been playing with it and have tested a few circuits on it. :)

I also got lots of lovely presents from Family which i absolutely love including a sweater, a cross and some aftershave – i love all the gifts i received and my family were all happy with the things i got them too :)

Tomorrow we’re off to Suzanne’s for Boxing day and I’m looking forward to it.

I really hope everyone had a lovely Christmas day and you all Enjoy the New Year ahead :)

 
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Windows 7 EFS Problem Solved

16 Dec

This is a Public retraction to Microsoft after giving there EFS on Windows 7 a 0/10 score and saying it was useless. A few days after writing my blog entry about the EFS system, i was contacted by a gentlemen in American called Mike Grass who works for Microsoft and actually designed the EFS system on the latest Operating System. Mike had been looking around the net for anything to do with the EFS in Windows 7 and happened across my site and saw the problems i had wrote about. Mike contacted me and offered to help. After writing emails back and forth to get an idea of how my system was set up he went about duplicating my system setup to see if he could get the same results.

I was honestly thinking it was just my copy of Windows 7 that was causing problems and that i must have done something during the setup to cause it to not work correctly – but after nearly 2 weeks, Mike has finally duplicated the exact same problems – and has determined that the problem lies within the Anti-virus program i am using called Comodo Anti-virus / Firewall.

Of all the problems i guessed it was, i never suspected that it might have been my Anti-Virus program causing the problems. Mike is now working on a permanent fix for the problem with the EFS system and may contact Comodo regarding the problem. Even if no fix is produced, its nice to know I’m not bonkers but there is a solution out there and it wasn’t really anything to do with the Windows 7 system that was causing it.

I would like to publically thank Mike Grass from Microsoft for all his help and his hard work in his own time for finding a resolution to this problem.

 
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