Random Nerd moment

I work at a digital print shop for Harvey Norman that prints all of the lovely high-quality photobooks and canvases you order from Harvey Norman Photocenters around Australia. So if you've got one of these recently there's a good chance I've either bound it, trimmed it, printed it, covered it, stapled it or packed it.
So one of the machines I operate at work is a Horizen HT-30 Robotic Trimmer. It cuts the photobooks to fit nicely in their hard or soft covers. It's like a huge machine from Willy Wonka's chocolate factory O.o




<------ It makes very cool 'whirr', 'phoosh' and 'cha-bang!' sounds XD



I was using it yesterday and one of the guys was with me, showing me the finer details of operating it, when we started to talk about how it works. Yeah hydraulics to power the 1kg blade etc etc... but what caught my attention was the tiny tiny motors it uses to make the precise measurements and cuts. I mean it can cut to like a 1/4 of a mm accurately! It uses these funky little motors called 'Servo Motors'.



This is what it looks like when u rip it apart. ---------------->



They turn particular angles according to the length of electrical pulses they get.
So to keep it in a 'neutral' position requires a pulse of 1.50 milliseconds. Anything less than this will turn it accordingly counter clockwise (I think, or I might have it back to front) and anything more will turn it clockwise.

So you can program pulses to turn them in whatever degree u like, maybe attach a robotic arm to the end and you have... well a funny-looking thing that can pick things up and drop them a little bit away.
So you program software to release timed pulses - like a macro in WoW - one pulse to activate the robotic 'clamp' (I think it'd work by completing the circuit... I haven't done electronics since primary school -.-) to pick up ... a coffee cup or something. Then a pulse of 1.75ms to turn the motor from 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock and another pulse to release the 'clamp' and a 1.5ms pulse to return it to neutral. (Most servo motors, I've read, only work within 180 degrees.)
These little things are the same type of motor in remote-controlled cars! Very cool :) I dunno why I found this so interesting... maybe cause I had a light-bulb moment where I suddenly understood exactly how a little part of something worked.
At least in my head I get it :s


Oh and I discovered the trimmer is technically classed as a 'Robot', though I doubt it will be plotting any plans for world domination soon...

Wonders and woes of Twitter

I made a lovely Twitter background today!
Too bad it won't upload -.- so after wasting 3 hours of my life I decided to post it here :)
Started turning my Deathknight fanfic into an audio-drama-ish thingo. It would be awesome to podcast it for other people :)
Stay tuned for more!

Why can't I own a Canadian?

Well?

omgwtf

*WANT!*
I have money... it's pay day. I'm officially buying this necklace. I don't care if I'm a geek.
Maybe get this shirt for DB :)

For the seductress in us all...

I've found what I want for my birthday!
Too bad my bf isn't that much into Star Trek :(
Kirok of L'Stok stumbled across this and forwarded it to me, knowing my love for corsets <3

On another note I TOTALLY forgot to link to the BEAUTIFUL brushes that I used to jazz up my blog! I'm a huge fan of Obsidian Dawn's Fantasy Brushes, it makes it so easy to wow people with your pictures. Just make sure you linky back to the DL page if you're planning on using them please!
I also used a stock photo from www.sxc.hu, free high-quality stock photos. The beautiful header base was by Fangol, the background flowery rectangles were by Duchesssa.

Spent the entire morning reading Darklegacy comics and LookingForGroup -.- I should really continue writing. Just doing a final edit and finish of Chapter 1 of Deathknight (part 2).
... okay I'm gonna rename it Chapter 7. "Deathknight; Part 2, Chapter 1" is WAAAY too long.
Hopefully should be able to post it tonight :)

Greetings and salutations

NEUROTIC. CHAOTIC. ANTI-PROBLEMATIC.

P S Y C H O S O M A T I C.

Live by the laws of:

Eyeliner NewRocks HeavyMetal Nuttella

\m/ God has SPOKEN! \m/...

She has:

- Lots of black lace and eyeliner
- A love for musicals; singing/acting and dancing
- A strange fascination with photographing herself
- An odd fetish for boots and corsets

- A lvl 80 Draenei Deathknight (Sven - Blackrock) a lvl 80 Night Elf Boomkin (Bellwind - Blackrock) a lvl 80 Shaman (Shaamrock - Blackrock) and a Gnome Warlock (Bellfear - Blackrock)

- A personal vendetta against Supre after they insulted her and asked her to leave
- Taken up and quit smoking in the 2 weeks after she turned 18... then started smoking again.
- Mourned the loss of her beloved rat... then rescued a cat from the RSPCA
- An iPhone that's pracically surgically implanted in her ears. ...

She STILL has not:
- Managed to learn the guitar like she's always wanted to
- Conquered her nerves and sung solo publicly as well as she sings solo in private
- Learnt Latin, though can read it quite well... just not understand what it means... sort of
- Discovered why she's such a Mosh Pit Junkie...lol...

Currently writing:- Devil May Cry Fanfic- Halo Fanfic- World of Warcraft fanfic ...

This is a blog to clump together my works; writing, photos, fanart... all in one little convenient blog - complete with links!

Occasionally I'll write brief discriptions of my oh-so-geeky life... but hopefully they should be few and far between :)

I should start first with the basics; links.

- My Deviantart page

- My Fanfiction.net page

I will link most uploads to those sites, but if you ever want to browse around the web version of whats inside my head right now - feel free to explore them :)

Writing:

Most recently I'm working on a series of World of Warcraft fanfics that I'm contributing to my brothers website "Tales of the Slaughtered Lamb" (still in development). The intention is to create a site that can be a sort of hub for Warcraft fanfics so its easily accessible by fans. Lord knows they must be - like me - fed up of sifting through the crap on ff.net to find a few good stories. Don't get me wrong though, I beta-read for a lot of people on ff.net to help them polish their work. This site will have a 'tales from the taven' theme; supposedly told to the old barkeeper.

I'm going to contribute 3 (possibly 4) three-part stories; Deathknight, Warlock, Druid (And maybe Shaman). Who knows? Maybe eventually I'll write a story for each class!

You can find "Deathknight - Part 1" here. Part 2 is writing in progress :)

Fanart:

Just finished uploading a small collection of glorified screenshots of my favourite toons to DA.

Bellwind

Shaamrock

Bellfear

Svén

See the pic comments for links to the brushes I used and artist notes :)

I guess that's all for now before my giant wall of text kills you.

/walloftext crits you for over 9000

You die

Damn...