Michael Doornbos

My wife and I are creative people.  We’re creatively different  (you might say opposite) but often known as people with the ideas.  I didn’t say “all the good ideas”, just “ideas”.
We like to change.
Your brain is wired to recognize patterns. It’s very very good at it. The lazy thing for your brain to do is [...]

As we all know, any aliens we encounter will want to eat us which makes for good SciFi.
Was that Elizabeth Mitchell I saw?  Sweet.

Hooking up 2 electric drive motors seems like a simple task on the surface, but never is in practice.  Here’s my mockup of a circuit I’m going to use.  The meat of the control circuit is an L293D Quadruple Half-H Driver. Now that the breadboard prototype is working, it’s time to assemble the thing permanently [...]

Louis CK revisits his famous Conan appearance and reassures us that while all the examples he gives of our cultural impatience are actually him, he also thinks we’re a shitty generation. Not a shit generation, though. Just shitty. If we had jetpacks, we’d think they were the crappiest jetpacks out there.

I’m building a small robot this week.  We’re calling him Evadotbot (Caleb came up with that).

He’s pretty simple, a two motor gearbox will control 2 wheels, the 3rd being a caster wheel so he can spin in a circle.  He’s controlled by a simple motor controller chip and powered by 4 AA rechargeable batteries.

His “brain” [...]