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		<title>Thanks from the Boys and Girls Club &#8211;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please excuse me for a moment, as I blow a trumpet for my beautiful and talented wife, Liz Hoffswell.  Liz used her skills to build a website for a recent Boys and Girls Club function.  I found this note on our desk today &#8211;  

January 30, 2010
Dear Liz, 
Words cannot adequately express [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Rebuilding an Old Barn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind my in law&#8217;s home in Holland Michigan lies a old chicken barn.  The low 100 foot long barn has been used to house horses for the past 30+ years.  In that time, it had never been well refitted for horses, and suffered a bit for it.  
Over the past two years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>12 year old&#8217;s presentation on why she needs a cellphone.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Katie took an evening to write a presentation and call a &#8220;family meeting&#8221;.  Here&#8217;s her argument for a cellphone.

MY TOP REASONS WHY I NEED I CELL PHONE!!!!
by katie hoffswell
       Reason 1, After School Activities
Since I am now in 6th grade and have after school activities to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Pete Speaks on building Fiber Optic Networks (Video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June I spoke on the subject of building Fiber Optic networks at the 2006 Merit Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Once again, Merit recorded the event. 
Building Fiber to Control Your Future: A Panel Discussion on the Challenges and Opportunities
Jim Moran, Merit Network, moderator; Bob Eluskie, Grand Rapids Community College; Pete Hoffswell, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Tulips and Robots appear in Holland Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tulip Time in Holland Michigan!
Ok enough on that subject.  It&#8217;s also FIRST robotics competition season across the country.  This year 3 teams from the Holland area are heading to Atlanta for the national championship.  Good luck!
My own challenge, to develop a TableBot from my VEX kit is progressing nicely. 
TableBot version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Vex TableBot Test #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My work on the TableBot continues.  I now have a basic program that, in pseudocode:

10 move to edge of table
20 back up
30 turn around
40 go to 10

Here is a video of my first test, with Maggie, my assistant.
 
The programming and design have some obvious issues.  The main problem is that the table [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=35</link>
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		<title>TableBot Design &#8211; Bench Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I spent the afternoon working on a simple robot.  It&#8217;s great!  This first pciture shows my initial build of the manual&#8217;s Square-Bot, and Felix the cat investigating.  I quickly tore that apart, and moved on to a robot designed to operate the TableBot parameters as outlined by Camp Peavy.  The TableBot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=34</link>
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		<title>The VEX Robotics Design System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In highschool I worked for Rhino Robots of Champaign Illinois.  Production was in a machine shop, where we created most parts and assembled the Rhino XR-1 robotic arm.  The arm was targeted towards education and expermentation.  It was a great experience.

In the 90&#8217;s Lego came out with their Mindstorm set, that featured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Kayakbay launches with first Podcast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a computer geek, I find myself sitting at the keyboard for 8 to 12 hours a day.  This is not good.
Not good for the body and not good for the mind.  
What&#8217;s the verb?  Computing? Hacking?  Keyboard pounding?  Well you know what I mean.  My back hurts because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>New Gear Podcast</title>
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I&#8217;ve upgraded the podcast station with some new gear.  What do you think of the new sound?  The new station includes the following gear:

Alesis Multimix 8usb
Marshall MXL990 Cardioid Mic
ATW-T36HE

It was a little tricky to get the MultiMix to interface with my PC, and CastBlaster exactly the way I wanted it.  But, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hoffswell.com/blog/?p=27</link>
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