Submitted by drew on

I was looking through some of my old stuff for something and ran across this gem. If you need to put together a quick flyswatter, try this one I designed for a class in college (the famous Rube Goldberg project).

Here are a few excerpts from the attached PDF. If this doesn't convince you to build one (perhaps with several improvements as noted in the document), I don't know what will.

This design performed many efficient and labor saving operations. The large number of these events combined with the effort each one saves demonstrates that the fortunate user will gain much leisure time by using this device.... 

This Apparatus was built on three pallets for modularization and convenient setup.

The Fly Swatting Machine was product tested with the above listed events. The Machine was immediately praised by local authorities and nominated for the “Protector of Human Kind From Flies” award.

Schematic of Sequence Diagram of Setup  Drew Keller and Ethan Cooper set up the fly swatter
 

Project members Drew Keller and Phil Harms demonstrate the fly swatter.Live demonstration of the fly swatter. Incineration of the fly also melted the final stage

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Timer

The timer can count up from a time in the past or count down towards a time in the future.

The timer's appearance and the format of the time (and text) is very configurable. You can hide it's border, it's background, set the color and glow effects.

Sound Recorder

This is a simple recorder that records directly to an MP3 file. Recording can be paused and resumed.

The recording window has a compact mode and can be set to stay on top of other windows, so it can be out of the way, yet still visible.

When done recording, you can playback the recording or upload the file to an FTP site.

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RocketDock with multiple bars\docks

Submitted by drew on

It seems there is plenty of interest about how to make RocketDock work with two or more docks or bars. Most answers say to use additional docking programs--one for each dock you want. Or use a commercial program that offers multiple docks. I think RocketDock is excellent except I want more than one. I finally figured out how to do it!

Let's first point out that RD is licensed under the Creative Commons license and it explicitly says "You are free... to Remix--to adapt the work." And also to redistribute.