I’ve got a few hobbies that I personally think have no more risk than spending your life on a couch. That said, they do tend to produce more slight injuries (unless you have a really evil couch). Every so often I enjoy sliding down a snow covered mountain. Sometimes the mountain likes to help me [...]
I finally had a chance to get Mediatomb (a uPnP media server) working from my powermac. Now it’s happily serving up video to my DirecTV HR20/21s. Given a fresh install of leopard, here’s what you need to do….
A while back (like a year), the boys at Neuros sent me a Neuos OSD unit to play with. They didn’t really ask me to do anything specific with it, but send it they did. When it came, I unboxed it, and promptly put off playing with it because I was too busy. I was [...]
I’ve been pretty quite for a little while. I’ve been busy putting together my new office. We had a garage that was just full of junk. I’ve been busy studding it out, insulating it, adding drywall, a huge window and a handy exterior door. While I was at it, I ran a new 20 amp [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]