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		<title>Moving to Cape Town</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/08/moving-to-cape-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone. I&#8217;m going to be moving to Cape Town over the next couple months. I start my new job 1st of September, but my house and workshop stuff is only coming down at the end of the year. So thing are probably going to get a bit quite around here till I&#8217;ve set-up at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring a Myford Super 7 Lathe (Part IV)</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/05/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-iv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/05/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-iv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 10:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lathe is done! Wow it took long enough. Quick recap (please see part III for the full story) There were a few parts missing after we finished the rebuild. Parts included a gib strip for the top slide and a spacer for the main spindle. Unfortunately you can&#8217;t run the machine without these parts, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP 200LX USB / Power Supply dongle</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/04/hp-200lx-usb-power-supply-dongle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/04/hp-200lx-usb-power-supply-dongle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a 1998 HP 200LX palmtop. Wikipedia describes it as: a personal digital assistant introduced by in 1994. It was often called a palmtop computer, and it was notable that it was, with some minor exceptions, a MS-DOS-compatible computer in a palmtop format, complete with a monochrome graphic display, qwerty keyboard, serial port, and PCMCIA expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring a Myford Super 7 Lathe (Part III)</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/01/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2011/01/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just to recap from Part 2. After cleaning off the dirt, grime and rust, things where looking good, thats until the paint started giving problems.﻿﻿﻿﻿ The troublesome paint has had 5 months to dry properly, so the respraying went quite smoothly.  We finally found the colour that closely matches the original Myford grey. Everything got a good degreasing and sanding before spraying a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOURLS Twitter Tools wordpress plugin</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/08/yourls-twitter-tools-wordpress-plugin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/08/yourls-twitter-tools-wordpress-plugin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stewartallen.org/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking for a YOURLS url shortener plugin that is compatible with Twitter Tools for a while now. There was one &#8220;yourls plugin for twitter tools 2.0&#8221; but it&#8217;s been unmaintained since August 27th, 2009. I finally bit the bullet and wrote my own. The plugin is based on Twitter Tools &#8211; Bit.ly URLs code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVM issues and isolated power supplies</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/08/dvm-issues-and-isolated-power-supplies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/08/dvm-issues-and-isolated-power-supplies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a little project that need a DVM (digital volt meter) panel meter. You can buy these cheapies for R60.00. The one I got was a 3 ½ digit, 7-segment LCD with ±0.5% accuracy. You get two types, one has a common GND connection, the other needs the supply and measurement GNDs to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designing Lego Mindstorms NXT sensors</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/08/designing-lego-mindstorms-nxt-sensors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/08/designing-lego-mindstorms-nxt-sensors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AVRTiny85]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a Lego Mindstorms kit last month to mess with, I&#8217;ve got some ideas for robot localisation that I want to try out. Anyway, the kit comes with a sonar range finder but I wanted a little more accuracy and smaller detection area. I&#8217;ve got a bunch of Sharp rangefinders from another project and they would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TI MSP430 LaunchPad</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/07/ti-msp430-launchpad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/07/ti-msp430-launchpad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ordered 3 TI MSP430 LaunchPad development kits last month and they finally arrived, there was a huge demand for the boards (they cost $4.30 each) so the delay is understandable.  Two are mine and the third is for a friend. Opening the box there is a Getting started booklet, the Dev board, a second MSP430 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring a Myford Super 7 Lathe (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/07/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/07/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Just to recap from Part 1. ﻿My Dad and I bought an old Myford Super 7 Lathe (Serial number ﻿SK68133) at an auction. At first glances it looked terrible but after cleaning off the dirt, grime and rust, there was hope. Below is what we ended up with after completely dismantling everything to parts, cleaning, painting and finally reassembly. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Restoring a Myford Super 7 Lathe (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/06/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartallen.org/2010/06/restoring-a-myford-super-7-lathe-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little bit of a departure from the usual electronics stuff. My Dad and I bought an old Myford Super 7 Lathe (Serial number ﻿SK68133) at an auction, we paid R1000 for it, quite a bargain actually. We got the partially disasembled bed, a box full of the slides and parts, a nice sturdy stand/cabinet, a 3 Jaw [...]]]></description>
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