Spark Fun sold out of the first batch of keypad bezels I made. They’ll have another batch once I get them shipped of. By the way, shout out if you’ve put one together, I’m looking forward to hearing about it.
I’ve been spending most of my week in training for netscreen firewalls. We’ve been using quite a few of the inexpensive SSG5 units (along with a few big hairy ones in the core network) to deploy all sorts of VPNs, firewalled networks and various network builds. These little boxes are quiet (no fans), small and [...]
I spent some time putting together a LCD interface to test out an old 2×16 LCD I had laying around. Sadly, the LCD seems to have some issues – it would only write the first 8 bit block for some reason. (It could be a software tweak, but I doubt it at this point) However, [...]
Around the beginning of the year, I ordered one of Limor/Ladyada’s XPort ethernet shields for my Arduino toy box. I *finally* soldered it up and started playing with it. The XPort is a pretty neat piece of hardware. It’s essentially an Ethernet to serial(ttl) bridge. You could use it to put a network interface on [...]
I picked up some new sample hardware to play with. The surface mount pads are freakin tiny, so I had to get creative to break out all the pins I need access to. I murded one pad with a piece of 24 gauge wire that put too much stress on it, so I pulled individual [...]
My wife trashed the power plug on my old her 15 inch Powerbook G4. I cleared enough room on my workbench and finally got around to taking the thing apart. I desoldered the old power jack – I was pretty impressed at how well it held up. Unfortunately, it had pieces of old power plug [...]
I decided to try my hand at making Coconut Chicken Curry last night. It came out great. You can grab the recipe here. It was a bit spicy for my wife, so I made some sweet Lassi to go with it. (Hey, I can mix indian and thai food in my house if I want!)
I finally got around to replacing the pressure stat in my ECM Giotto this week. The hardest part was removing the old P-stat without small wrenches. I finally settled for using a crescent wrench on the pipe and a pair of channel lock pliers to grip the metal lower where it crimps around the body [...]