Dork Yearbook BB Flickr pool
Do you have a photo of your unabashed riot nrrrd childhood? Boing Boing Gadgets is seeking to celebrate our shared geekdom through the BBG Flickr pool. Tag your photo "dorkyearbook"! At top is our own Joel Johnson proud of his X86 hackery achieved over his 7th grade summer. The kid in the thin leather tie is yours truly, age 14, with my science fair-winning automated plant waterer. (Apologies for the bad photo quality.) I wrote an assembly language program for my Apple ][e to control a solid state relay circuit that I designed and connected to the RS232 port. The relay then triggered a solenoid that opened a valve for water to flow into the plant. I could set the program I wrote to water the plant on a regular schedule when I wasn't home. At the science fair, there was no faucet nearby so my dad got me a saline drip from his work that I used instead. But the salt water killed the plant. More on the Dork Yearbook at Boing Boing Gadgets.
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David Pescovitz
Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.
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