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Sending signals

After a rather unpleasant day of hauling furniture and then having to work on a Saturday, I grabbed some pizza, watched some Adventure Time, an decided to solder up the orange and white LED’s like I said I would. Process … Continue reading

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Blinded by the light

So I got around to taking a stab at soldering one of the red LED’s to the board last night. Soldering is just as difficult as I remember it being, I really need to take that TechShop class on it, … Continue reading

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Start me up.

More goodies in the mail today! The push button start kit from Digital Guard Dawg showed up today. More stuff to put on the ‘wiring board’ when I get some free time!

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Some light mail

The LED’s showed up from China today; actually they arrived yesterday but no one was home to sign for them. They were picked up at the post office and I dug in when I got home from work. I don’t … Continue reading

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Power board

Just a quick update. Dug through the shed, found a nice ~4′ square piece of plywood that already had one side painted white. I cleaned off all the dust and cobwebs and started mounting (drilled holes with zip-ties) the electronics … Continue reading

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So I was feeling a bit board…

One of the things that I have to tackle with the MogRod is the upgraded wiring. Even with much of the car still a ways off, I wanted to do *something* to move forward on the project. I’d already researched … Continue reading

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Solid. Works.

My current job entails two utterly unrelated fields: I’m a parts buyer, and I run a CNC router. The latter of the two jobs requires that I have at least some understanding of CAD programs and such. Fortunately my previous … Continue reading

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The Family History of the Morgan Motor Company

Morgan Motors posted this on their Facebook feed today. Nice to be able to put a face to the name of the man who dug up the chassis record for my +4. If you check this site out at all, … Continue reading

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LS Fun C4

My first real car was our 1986 Chevrolet Corvette. Now, previously I’d driven a 85 GMC Jimmy and a 97 Chevy Blazer, but those weren’t mine. I thoroughly enjoyed driving the ’86, and am glad that it’s still in the … Continue reading

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Live and Let Drive checks out the Morgan Factory

Probably one of the better videos about the Morgan factory I’ve seen.

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