Author Archives: robertwilkie

Good article on the basics of rooting your Android Phone

Posted on April 17, 2014 by robertwilkie

Nice article on rooting (and why you want to do this) your android phone.  Also can apply to tablets. http://lifehacker.com/5789397/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-rooting-any-android-phone?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

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Cool 3D printed eggbot design

Posted on April 17, 2014 by robertwilkie

Its got a bit of a ways to go, but this is much more promising that some of the other spherebot/eggbot designs I have seen that involve printing out the parts on a 3D printer.  Since its all one part, … Continue reading →

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123D Web based Circuit Design

Posted on April 16, 2014 by robertwilkie

  Interesting PCB/ circuit design tool, its somewhat free on the Web, actually you design your circuits on a Web interface.  It looks pretty neat but I haven’t tried it myself.  However it does have allot of arduino stuff built … Continue reading →

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How to build your own Police Scanner

Posted on April 16, 2014 by robertwilkie

Nice write-up on how to build your own police scanner that runs on a computer.  My 2 cents, I’ll just buy one at $100.  This is way too much work.  Unless you need alot of other detailed info from the … Continue reading →

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Choosing an Opensource License

Posted on April 16, 2014 by robertwilkie

So you are going to opensource your source code, have you put any thought behind which of the many licenses to use?  The article is more for open hardware groups, but its applies to software as well. http://www.open-electronics.org/how-to-choose-your-open-source-hardware-license/

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Beverage dispenser with an RPi

Posted on April 16, 2014 by robertwilkie

Cool build, the author took a bar caddy, a bunch of 3D printed parts, and an Raspberry Pi (oh and some motors and controller board) and build an 4 tank mixer with it all.  The RPi is the controller and … Continue reading →

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LiFi, using LED’s for wireless network

Posted on April 16, 2014 by robertwilkie

I got a kick out of this article, some folks in scotland build a prototype wifi network using light/LED’s.  All I can think of is IrDA…and all the odd “light” problems there was with that.  Good idea thought, and could … Continue reading →

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Build an Arduino based Solar Charger

Posted on April 16, 2014 by robertwilkie

Nice write-up on how to use an arduino to be a charge controller for a solar panel.  Its a bit overkill but you could extend this for getting stats, and other information from charging.  And it could be cheapen’ed down … Continue reading →

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Xerox a good stock for being on the decline

Posted on April 15, 2014 by robertwilkie

Interesting take from this Financial Writer, that Xerox is a good stock since thought its declining in value, it has potential. http://www.gurufocus.com/news/255174/the-blessing-of-a-declining-stock-price-call-me-a-charlatan  

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Correction, Xerox CEO took a 3 Million pay cut last year

Posted on April 15, 2014 by robertwilkie

Correction on previous article I had, Urusla Burns took a 3 million dollar hit in pay last year from bonuses.  Still made over 10 mill for the year thought. http://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=206983

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