Went to Hive 76 for their open house night on Wednesday to check out the space. While I was there Jack Zylkin demoed his very cool Arduino based vintage typewriter > USB Keyboard hack, and it’s actually quite ingenious and cool. There are contact relays underneath the main typewriter carriage and he uses magnets for other registers and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Backups’
July 2, 2009
WWDC no 802.11n in on the 3G S iPhone!? Drat!
So, with the new iPhone 3.x OS you will not be purchasing an 802.11N enabled wireless chipset. Apparently the new 3G S model does support 4G HSDPA but not 5 GHz 802.11N wireless with the new lower powered Broadcom BCM4325. Apparently the 3G S model is a bit snappier. When is the 802.11n iPod [...]
January 26, 2009
Still Not Ice Climbing – but lets build a MythTV!
Sadly my Saturdays and Sundays have not been filled with ice climbing trips to hidden frozen waterfalls of the Northeast. My hand feels better despite having a small gash where it hit the edge of the BMW car door. I imagine I’ll be able to go back to the MPHC climbing gym soon.
I miss [...]
January 15, 2009
Special Day Photo Secrets
So, we’ve learned the hard way that when you’re about to get married you should reformat your camera’s memory card. Reformat it three times, actually. Wipe it clean, freshy frischmacher clean. The Canon PowerShot SD800 IS had really never given us any major trouble, it’s been a good little point and shoot. But as we found [...]
October 23, 2008
halfway
I’m about halfway there on the upgrade of the larger notebook harddrive and 10.5.4 with XP BootCamp (all of this is to get SolidWorks 2008 Education version running, mind you). Leopard is noticeably faster than my old run down version of Tiger. Or at least that’s what they’d have you believe. No seriously, this system is running [...]
