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Our friend Scott over at Curious Inventor and Vmeter posted this awesome tutorial on how to use our Surface Mount Kapton stencils.  If you haven’t seen this video, amongst his many others, you are missing out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xqv9HF_2GlY

I planned ahead and made sure I was one of the first people to make sure my ChipKit Design Challenge application was in the day registration opened.  The initial intent was to work on an improved beer brewing controller for the recent 240V 15 Gallon brewery setup I have built.  I am looking forward to the design challenge and getting things going in the development IDE.

Unfortunately, I don’t get to play to on as many fun electronic projects as I used to, now that my PhD is really ramping up.  The good news is I have plenty of work related projects to keep me busy and luckily they are all panning out well.  With that said, here’s a quick feature on some of what I have been doing as reported today on “All Things Considered” on NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011/08/16/139651358/air-force-eyes-artificial-birds-bugs-that-can-spy

A carbon fiber tobacco hawkmoth wing created by Maj. Ryan O'Hara flaps 30 times per second and was photographed using a strobe