Monthly Archives: April 2015

New Google Now card shows if something you looked for goes on sale

Posted on April 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

This could be good or bad.  Apparently if you searched for an item on google, and it goes on sale, google will show it too you on a card in google now. http://www.mursl.org/uploads/2/8/7/0/2870899/u10_rules.pdf

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Wind Powered music box

Posted on April 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

My TODO projects list is getting a bit long, and now I am going to add this to it.  The author shows how to build a simple wind-powered music box.  A few things I would do differently is take the … Continue reading →

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Print out a filament filter

Posted on April 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

Nice build for a filament filter for your 3D printer.  You use sponges for the “filter” part.  Why do you do this, apparently the dirt that may get on the filament will build up on the hotend and cause it … Continue reading →

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Hah, another way to break combo locks

Posted on April 29, 2015 by robertwilkie

Nice video to how to figure out the combo for a combination lock. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/641244/5d1d6d20aeb0a647/ Note you need this website to help with it http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/crack-any-master-combination-lock-8-tries-less-using-calculator-0161629/

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Running python in the bootloader

Posted on April 29, 2015 by robertwilkie

Interesting article where the author got python running from the bootloader instead of the OS.  Since there are alot of hacker scripts written in python, i can totally see this getting…err…abused. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/641244/5d1d6d20aeb0a647/

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youtube Channels for kids and learning

Posted on April 29, 2015 by robertwilkie

Nice list of channels on youtube for kids that have PBS/Learning like style too them.  Half are for little kids, the other half for pre-teenish. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-fantastic-learning-channels-youtube-kids/

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Call for a new CEO at Xerox

Posted on April 28, 2015 by robertwilkie

Article goes on that basically Xerox hasn’t seen any recovery since the current CEO took over.  So thus a call for a new one.  I am leaning that way myself.  A few years are OK to give a CEO a … Continue reading →

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Get the last juice out of an almost dead flashlight

Posted on April 28, 2015 by robertwilkie

Found this project amusing.  The author basically make a joule thief circuit with a big farrite in it.  That powers an LED to use as a flashlight.  I like the final packaging used on the project where the farrite is … Continue reading →

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I’m going to have to look at sourcegraph

Posted on April 28, 2015 by robertwilkie

I have heard of Sourcegraph in the past, but never took a good look at it.  It looks like it could be a useful engine to link in other projects for your development project to build on. http://www.open-electronics.org/semantic-code-search-for-open-source-sourcegraph/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenElectronics+%28Open+Electronics%29

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Easy way to code for arduino, use Scratch

Posted on April 28, 2015 by robertwilkie

Nice visual way to write programs.  If you have kids and want to get them to start coding, this would be a good way to start. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/afraid-programming-code-try-scratch-arduino/

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