MiniPingBot Construction

This small Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot is an experiment in reducing 

the size and complexity of larger kit and Do It Yourself (DIY) robots.




Bot Mechanics:

I started with an enclosed 4-cell AA battery pack. This had an advantage of having a small slide switch mounted in the case, so you don't have to keep disconnecting the power connector.

 


Two mini (9g) continuous

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Tech Tip: How to back up your Outlook local content and archives (.pst)

This article shows how to locate your Outlook.PST* file so that you can backup or transfer your outlook content to removable media, a network location or to another location. Illustrated below is the process for Outlook 2010 with Windows 7 as operating system. There are many ways to locate and backup your outlook.pst archive, but this procedure should be similar for most versions of Outlook or

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Tech Tip: How to fix DNS errors

Description: Sometimes a computer will inform the user that it is having a DNS error and can't connect to the internet. Flushing the DNS can often fix this:

Hold down the Windows key and select the R key once to open the Run window.






Type cmd into the space there and select OK. This will open the Command Prompt window.




In that window, type ipconfig /flushdns and select the Enter key.

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When 2 Terabytes just isn't enough...

Sooner or later, you'll find yourself saying "Ya' know, 2,199,023,255,552 bytes (also known as 2TB) of data on
one hard drive is just not enough for me - I need more, lots more."

Well, first the good news --- hard disk drive prices are running below $100 per Terabyte, and if you REALLY have a lot of data even the 16TB network attached storage (NAS) drives with "data center

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