Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
I've been wanting the Huawei E5 for a bit. O2 sells them in Germany but I refused to give them my passport data for purchasing a bit of hardware online. Instead, I got the rebranded product, which is made by Trekstor.
The Trekstor portable WLAN Hotspot a.k.a. Huawei E5. Add a SIM card, switch it on, [...]
A FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7270 has a built-in telephone directory which is maintained via a Web interface, from which I can create, edit, remove and backup telephone directory entries used by attached DECT phones.
That is all fine and dandy, but I want to be able to populate that directory from existing an existing database, and [...]
Jürgen has a shop. He makes large steel objects. Very large objects. I asked him whether he'd make a nice little box for my Sonos remote. He sighed. "A case for such a teeny tiny little thing?", he asked. "Yep", I replied.
He delivered. Stainless steel. Lovely. Top slides on. And off. A nice birthday present. [...]
My original Sonos pause switch, while good in itself, has experienced a large number of revisions: Simon Long added infra red capabilities to it, and has since revisited the code to such an extent that the functionality of the IR remote is almost overkill. I say "almost" because the remote now has far more functions [...]
mbed is a tool for rapid prototyping with micro controllers, somewhat similar to the Arduino project. I've written about Arduino before, so first some comparative pictures. (Left Arduino, right mbed.)
I've included the Ethernet shield on the Arduino because the mbed has on-board Ethernet.
Programming the mbed is done in the cloud. Where Arduino has an IDE [...]
No restore required; no jailbrake required (!?!?); just a reboot.