Welcome to Paul Haas's web server

Welcome to a historic website

I haven't updated some of these pages in so long, that they are becoming historicly significant. Content that was worthy of national media coverage in 1994 and 1995, is not so impressive this year. It's hard to believe now, but this website was part of the inspiration for the founders of Yahoo to start maintaining an index of interesting web sites.

Most of my web pages were written before my first child was born. I'm still active in YAAARC, The Ypsilanti Ann Arbor Area Robotics Club and The Stilyagi Air Corps, a local Science Fiction club (err, literary organiziation).

Now go back in time to older content...

See what's going on in the refrigerator. You can test the water in my hottub. Look here for hottub notes.

My next project will use Basic Stamp's from Parallax Inc. and digital thermostat chips from Dallas Semiconductor. Of course, I've connected some to the Internet, the temperature of my desk top accurate to a half degree Celsius.

By the way, I am Paul Haas.

Trivia

Instructions for cooking CD-ROMs.

Here is a partial list of internet service providers with dialups in Michigan.

Here is some information on my web server.

Thanks to Corsa Instruments for letting me use their shop to build some of the things here.

Hardware Reviews in Progress

A Metcal Inc. soldering system, so now I will be able to do surface mount soldering. They also sent a Metcal TALON. Expect to see some new electronics on this site.
Some humidity and temperature sensors from Hycal. They included some platinum RTD temperature sensors that can go from the freezer to the oven. I guess it's time to put a toaster on the Internet.

What people have said about this site

Point Communications says that "Paul sounds a little geeky".
Craig Latham said " don't know how you duped those top 5% people." So this page is included as: .
In the December 3rd, 1995 The New York Times Magazine James Gleick used my site as an example of what the net is becoming. James, if you ever get to my neighborhood, I'll buy you a real pizza from Cottage Inn.
January 16, 1995 Time Magazine says "With a modem and a soldering iron, you too can build an Internet site that is really cool and totally useless."
WJBK, Channel 50 Detroit was inspired by the Time Magazine article to send a camera crew to my house and interview me live on the 10 O'Clock News.
This lead the Ann Arbor News to write a front page story titled "CYBERTUB Ypsilanti computer geek goes for a float on the Internet" on January 18th, 1995.
The January 1995 Internet World put my site on the "Best Hookups" page.
The February 1995 Internet Australasia listed the hottub in the Netpickings Column.
The March 1995 Esquire listed my hottub as a Hot Link.
Special thanks to Paul Phillips for maintaining the The Useless Pages. He listed the hottub at #3 in the Top 5 Useless Sites in the June 1995 PC World.