Monthly Archives: April 2013

Adding Fingerprint Authentication to Ubuntu

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Interesting article.  Personally biometrics are too iffy for me to use.  But still a nice idea. http://lifehacker.com/5992397/log-into-ubuntu-with-your-fingerprint

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Re-Grow your lettuce

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

If you save the end of your lettuce, you can plant it and grow another one. http://lifehacker.com/5992390/regrow-fresh-heads-of-romaine-lettuce-from-chopped-down-lettuce-hearts

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Fancy homemade ThermoElectric Fan

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Powered by a candle no less.  Nice build, but allot of work. http://www.instructables.com/id/Thermoelectric-Fan-Driven-by-a-Candle/

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Pee Controlled game

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Yup you know it, someone built (and sells) games that you control with target shooting your pee.  Oriented towards men (sorry girls) and is to try and educate men about prostates at the same time.  check out the video in the link … Continue reading →

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Make Mag, has a contest for Raspberry Pi

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Prizes include 1 grand, a Printbot Jr, and a bunch of other stuff.  You just have to build something cool with your RPi and submit it… http://blog.makezine.com/2013/03/31/win-1k-in-prizes-for-your-pi-project/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+makezineonline+%28MAKE%29

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Adafruit has a kids show

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Well kindof.  Its a show to show how circuits work for younger kids.  Looks interesting. http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/02/adafruit-circuit-playground/

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Silicon Valley is running out of innovation

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Interesting article where the author quotes Alan Kay (inventor of OO Design) that Silicon Valley is running out of innovation.  Why?  Well companies are no longer sinking money into “dreaming” new ideas like Xerox did in the past with PARC. … Continue reading →

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More and more articles on Xerox’s new CFO

Posted on April 2, 2013 by robertwilkie

Must be a slow news week for Xerox, or stocks.  Most of the articles are just pointing out the new CFO.  But the interesting bits are how much she used to make in some of her previous jobs (1-2 mill … Continue reading →

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Oracle looses first round in Java API copyright

Posted on April 1, 2013 by robertwilkie

Oracle lost its first round in the courts with google and others over copyright for the Java API.  Google built many android interfaces in wbut using the same Java API but different tech under the hood.  Oracle (which hasn’t really … Continue reading →

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Door Security with an embedded system

Posted on April 1, 2013 by robertwilkie

Using a microswitch, a webcam, and an A13-OLinuXino.  I had to google the last one (never heard of it before now).  Turns out its a ARM sysbem that has alot of similar functionality to the RPi.  Oh but its about … Continue reading →

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