Blogs aren't really my thing for now

These few weeks i won't have time to update this, but my Twitter will be updated more, which you can check on the right side.

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DIY digital 3D magnetometer

Finally had the time to put everything together into a nice PDF. Just to remind you, I was not allowed to use micro controllers or interface it to a PC. When you reach the diagram section in the PDF, you will see two of them. Thea reason for this is (you'll know this if you skim over the explanations) that a toroid could only be used to detect the magnetic field on two axis. Hence the first diagram has one drive coil and two sense coils and two display, while the second one has only 1 drive, 1 sense and 1 display. Initially i intended to make it have 3 displays that would show all the axis in real time. When 2 days before the darn thing was due, I failed in printing my own hand made circuit board (the etch-resistant pen was at fault since it wasn't resistant enough), i tried to fix the mistakes through the silver containing conducting paste. Didn't work out. Therefore the design was changed so that we would only use 1 display, which meant hooking up a 3 way switch (3 in, 1 out) or 2 2 way switches(imagine a normal slide switch put in a binary tree  fashion).

There was a way to use only 1 coil, but that involved buying a tall toroid. Unfortunately that had to be custom ordered, and it took to long. that also meant between noise filters had to be developed and i didn't have time to do it.

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Canada vs USA ~ Canada wins

First of all the game. It was unbelievable. It was well plaid, and there almost was a hockey fight, which was expected considering the pressure of the game. 1-0 at the end of the 1st, 2-1 at the end of the second and 2-2 at the end of the 3rd after Team USA scored with 28 seconds left. Who would have thought it was even possible?

Then we went into 20 minutes of sudden death with shoot-outs afterwards if needed. And Sid the Kid won the game. He saved the best for last. Some were complaining about his lack of scores in the 3 previous games. But in this winning play, he pushed and didn't give up. And because Canada won the Hockey gold, Canada won the Olympics.  Of course USA and Germany had more medals (not gold though), but it was the hockey game that decided who really won the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Before Sid's shot, no Canadian dared to think what if the US won. It would have killed our Canadian pride. People would turn in their citizenship and I would not apply for one. The fabric of space and time would have ruptured. This was our sport.

This following article details the true meaning of this game in a way that i could not do without plagiarizing. So here it is:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/ice_hockey/news?slug=jp-hockey022810&prov=yhoo&type=lgns


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