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Hello people, I'm from northern California in the Bay Area. I love turtles. I have owned two turtles. The smaller ones are very long lasting. I also have an egg laying pet chicken which eats 99% of all the highly dangerous black widows around the yard. I like to watch people make things and always l...

I've noticed that the Eye-fi card doesn't have a lock and will transfer at a speed of about 20 seconds per decent quality image. Usually my card reader transfers a 2.5 MB file at about 4 seconds. You have to delete the eye-fi card manually after the image is transferred. It would seem that plugging ...

Cool rig. What's stands out is what looks like a ghost standing or hanging there holding a book.

That's a great find. Automatically splits page pretty well. Too bad there's no option to use only one feature like split page alone. You have to run your pages through the whole process which is very time consuming.

I've heard the term 'text under image' thrown around, & would like to clarify what it means (& how to accomplish it in abbyy). My impression is that you get one file that contains the images & the OCR text. So essentially you're reading the image (no concern about any OCR errors by abby...

This looks like something that has been done before. Google has patented a system which analyze the curvature of the pages in order to process the data from them. Google most likely has (at their disposal) a few super computer and high-def high speed cameras. So people will figure that's what they'v...

Here's a circuit that will eliminate the transistor altogether and keep a single button on the handle. threebutton.gif What am I doing/assuming wrong? I think I may have skipped the 1ohm resistor, because it is so small. I haven't had any success using a resistor to drop the voltage to power a large...

Hi Edvin, I don't know a method to drop the voltage by using a diode and a resistor as seen in your diagram. I usually use a voltage regulator. And I would think it would be easier to get a power supply that will work safely with the camera. I can understand how you feel about the transistor issue b...

The cables of my usb hub has a 5th wire- from left to right, it's red, white, green, black, and then a thicker black. on closer examination, i can see that the 5th, thicker black appears to be a bare wire with only the insulation covering the wire from when the bare wire exits the clear cable (whic...

That's a cool setup, you1, but I'm pretty concern about your power supply. It says 4.5V. The camera requires 3.15V at around 1700mA each. It might work fine now but the camera's capacitor could begin leaking after your warranty expires. :) What you could use is a 3V or 3.15V power supply that actual...