I wanted to create a sine wave to test my ignition system with a better test signal, but I didn’t have a DAC handy. I did have a spare digital pot from my RGB doorlock project. There are several examples of DACs being built from resistor ladders, so I figured I’d give it a shot. [...]
Despite my lack of piston rings, I’m still moving on my project bike. I picked up a set of three GSXR coils for about $10, and decided to test them out with a ford EDIS-6 ignition controller. The EDIS is a stand alone electronic igntion – but it responds to timing controls if/when the main [...]
This is a nice little hack I found on Instructables today. I usually replace cables with broken clips, but it’s not always an option. This fix uses a pair of nylon zip ties to create a new clip. You’ll need some good cutters or some good knife skills to pull it off. Be careful cutting [...]
I repaired my old theme, which appears to be happily working now. Meanwhile I’ve been working on my xs850 a bit. Last week we pulled the cylinders and ended up breaking a cylinder ring. I was a bit sad about it until I scrubbed the worst cylinder wall I have. It appears to have some [...]
My home network runs on the following bits of hardware: 20/2Mb cable modem Juniper Netscreen Firewall Cisco Catalyst 3500 switch Nortel Wireless security controller Multiple Nortel Access points Here’s a rough diagram of what’s going on with the network. The netscreen has multiple connections to the cisco, thanks to my multiple security zones. (I provide [...]
Took some time to update the code I use for the blog front end of this site…. And it broke the theme I’d modified the crap out of . I’ll get it fixed soon!
Right now I’m heading toward Montana, but we took a day off from driving around Mount Rushmore… The day before the Sturgis rally starts. In a nutshell, this means that the local towns are already full of Harley riders (and other bikes). Lucky for me, there are quite a few sales tents that are up [...]
When I posted the goggle mod, my web server started crawling. After I took a look, I found that the box had been swapping. (This wasn’t a big surprise) I’ve been running on a dedicated virtual machine at slicehost.net with only 256MB of ram. One way to improve things is to run nginx instead of [...]
After realizing that I’d been lazy about it, I upgraded my hosting machine last night before I went to sleep. I managed to make Apache2 angry. You won’t like it angry, cause it won’t even give you a 404. Back to our regularly scheduled program.
I’ve been waiting patiently for a freakin Android phone on Sprint. After waiting and waiting, I ordered in iPhone. The App store is proven, the dev kit is easy to get, and even Stanford put out tutorials on programming for it. Sorry sprint. (Thanks for raising your fee and letting me out of mah contract [...]