Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Amazing what kind of (bizarre, crazy or just plain fun) ideas some people come up with: a chap uses an LCD photo frame he's displeased with to create a digital clock.
The clock (i.e. the photo frame) displays pre-created images of the time, and he uses an Arduino micro controller to press the 'next photo' button [...]
The BTstack Keyboard application allows you to use a Bluetooth keyboard with a jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch.
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I first heard about Sonos from Volker (who has been raving about the system for ages), and I finally succumbed to the temptation when I read about the S5.
I got mine delivered yesterday. Thomas Lang of ueberall-musik.de supplied it, and I had it set up within minutes. Not hours or days — minutes. The S5 [...]
My iPhone woke up this morning without Wifi, similarly to what happened to Volker recently.
I didn't want a paperweight, so I tried resetting network settings again and again, until the MAC address then finally showed up. Whew.
This instructable shows you how to make your Arduino into an R/C interface that you can use for just about anything requiring remote control, including an R/C lawnmower:
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I thought of getting a hundred of these to distribute as gifts, but they won't ship to Germany:
I wonder why…
I recently mentioned to Stefan Rubner that the Bacula network backup toolchain would be a really great addition to the line of tools available for the ReadyNAS NV+-line of NAS devices, so he got cracking and ported Bacula 3.0.2 to that platform under the condition that I would beta-test it.
What I want to have running [...]
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