I was going through some old electronics and found a slide scanner that plugged into an HP scanner and took it apart. The insides look like a fluorescent shop light with only one bulb. I found out it ran on

Unfortunately, Mike flipped his truck on a slippery on ramp during a snow storm. Fortunately, he was not injured. Unfortunately, the truck was a loss. Luckily, the weather was bad enough so I had a snow day and I could

Having a Christmas tree, I got requests for a menorah. I realized that programming it would be the easy part, and the only idea I had for the candles were transfer rollers. Transfer rollers are used in laser printers to

In part 1, we learned that splitting a gray scale image into a background and a transparent foreground, we need to do is solve $T=B(1-\alpha )+F\alpha $ with variables T (target gray), B (background gray), F, (foreground gray) and the

While writing my program for visual cryptography, I noticed that each pixel in a picture could gets it’s own value of an alpha transparency. While I couldn’t find a way to make it useful, I recently returned to the project