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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Article on FindChips
Nice article on Findchips.com. I haven’t used the site myself in years (since I only buy in small numbers and usually via ebay). But if you know the chip(s) you need, and in lots of 100, this is good site … Continue reading
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Winter Project: Solar heater for the pool
I have seen a couple write-ups similar to this one. Basically you get $50 worth of material (tie wraps, irritation hose, + couple 2x4s), and make a solar heater from it. This one is a little different where the author … Continue reading
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SARAH will help tell you what the Government has on you
Apparently its a website that will auto-generate requests for information from all the 22(ish) agencies out there on you. It sounds interesting and worth trying. http://www.hicham.io/foia/index.html Me? I’m going to wait a few weeks. I have a feeling they are … Continue reading
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Nice write-up on the different 3D printer controller boards
Decent write-up on all the different…well not all but some of the bigger ones…3D printer controller boards out there. I don’t think the article mentioned that some of those same boards are used in CNC (opensource) controllers too. http://hackaday.com/2013/09/06/3d-printering-electronics-boards/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29
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OpenID going to shutdown in 2/2014
Its ironic that the reason its shutting down is because the standards OpenID introduced are used by google/facebook/etc, so folks use those sites instead of OpenID’s directly. Kindof a mixed blessing. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/05/myopenid_closes_for_good_2014/
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Drafts, this sounds like a neat app to try
I was reading the article below and at first thought…great another evernote app, but it sounds like its much more than that. Its something I maybe trying out this weekend. http://lifehacker.com/im-greg-pierce-and-this-is-the-story-behind-drafts-1251294691
NSA backdoored and stole encryption keys
Newest stuff from Snowden, the NSA was involved in encryption standards and steered standards groups into making encryption standards they (the NSA) had a backdoor from. Gee, and this is a surprise since NIST (which is tied to the NSA) … Continue reading
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Xerox gets data processing/immigration paperwork deal with US
A nice $16 million to digitize immigration records for the USA. Since this is dataprocessing (going to hire 50 folks to do the work) at lets say $15 an hour. And it should take only a year to do…It should … Continue reading
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A digispark killer, the “trinket”
Adafruit has a new arduino tiny out called the trinket. Its a bit bigger than the digispark, but has alot more going for it (can do 3.3 volts for example). And about the same price ($8). http://hackaday.com/2013/09/05/a-really-really-tiny-microcontroller-board/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29
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Another cool Infinity Mirror
This one is controlled by an arduino. I like the round one better than the typical rectangle ones I see. http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-controlled-RGB-LED-Infinity-Mirror/