toys in the Attic Originally released in 1975, this was Aerosmith’s breakout recording. Listeners only familiar with their more recent, post-comeback material may be surprised; like their other albums from the 1970s, toys has a strong blues inflection, as indicated by their cover of “Big Ten Inch Record,” which also shows that Aerosmith has never lacked raunchiness or innuendo. There’s also the original (pre-Run-D.M.C.) version of “Walk This Way,” and the classic “Sweet Emotion.” This is classic Aerosmith at its gritty, streetwise best; they may have been derivative, but it really doesn’t matter, then or now: it’s all in good fun. –Genevieve Williams
Customer Review: Great Rock n Roll
Withstands the passage of time. Brings back memories of College days. Much simpler times….

Just great meaty rock and roll.

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One of our readers sent in the really interesting data logger. It uses an Arduino to capture the Nunchuck’s accelerometer data and stores it to the eeprom. I used a Microchip 25AA512 eeprom. It holds 64000 bytes. Normally the accelerometer data for each axis is in a range of about 1 to 1000. I scaled that down to 1 to 255, so that I could fit one accelerometer reading to a byte. By doing that, the eeprom can hold over 21,000 nunchuck readings. Read more about the Wii Nunchuck data logger Related: HOW TO - Read Wii nunchuck data into an Arduino Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this!

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