Todd Vanderlin » mouse http://toddvanderlin.com Design & Technology Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:27:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Nerd Stigmata http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/05/nerd-stigmata/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/05/nerd-stigmata/#comments Mon, 21 May 2007 15:08:36 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/05/21/nerd-stigmata/ Nerd Stigmata
This is a conversation between Ryan and Todd about a nerd battle wound.

Ryan throw me that wireless router. (toss)

Ouch! ohh man you cut me. Yes the wireless router cut me on the hand.

What?!

Oh mg god! Ryan look I thing its a sign from the heavens above. As I look down at my hand I am bleeding in the shape of the iconic mouse cursor. This is the first official record of the Nerd Stigmata.

]]> http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/05/nerd-stigmata/feed/ 36 Taxidermy Mouse http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/02/taxidermy-mouse/ http://toddvanderlin.com/2007/02/taxidermy-mouse/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:56:33 +0000 Todd Vanderlin http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/02/28/taxidermy-mouse/ Taxidermy Mouse Well our next task in HomeX was to taxidermy a mouse. This without doubt was the oddest thing I have ever done in school. I added some red LED eyes to make my mouse a little more possessed. Photos Update: The Taxidermy Mouse makes it to Make Blog.]]> Description

The documentation of a true Frankenstein experiment. I skinned a mouse and added glowing LEDs for eyes. The mouse was ordered from an online research supply store. I followed the steps to clean and skin the mouse, then created LED leads and attached a watch battery. These components were placed inside the mouse and everything was sewn up.

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The Mouse
The frozen mouse ordered by mail

LED Mouse Eyes
Two LEDs wired and shrink wrapped. They were place inside the mouse with a small watch battery.

Taxidermy Mouse
A Frankenstein LED mouse

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