Over the holidays, Keya gifted me a nifty little Larson Scanner kit to solder together. It’s a kit that lets you make the cool LED effect from Knight Rider and Battlestar Galactica. Glen Larson produced both which is probably why they have such similar cool effects. The kit itself is pretty straightforward to put together… Continue reading Larson scanner
Category: Hardware
PirateBox
When I was looking into nifty Raspberry Pi projects, I stumbled across the PirateBox project. The website describes it well: PirateBox is a DIY anonymous offline file-sharing and communications system built with free software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. In other words, it’s a bit of preconfigured software you can run on a Raspberry Pi that lets folks chat,… Continue reading PirateBox
Raspberry machines
I’m writing this on a Raspberry Pi. It has a 2.5 inch screen and my keyboard is some kind of cheap tiny wireless thing with a track pad that more closely resembles a game controller than a keyboard. Please forgive my brevity or typos. In addition to composing on a small screen, Chromium has a… Continue reading Raspberry machines
Reclaiming my hard drive
In the middle of a Zoom call a couple weeks ago, I got a system notice that I was running out of space on my startup disk. It said I had 1.6 gigabytes free and the number was dropping rapidly. Crap. I did some quick measures to get through the call by deleting some unused… Continue reading Reclaiming my hard drive
Android switch observations, just a few days in
I decided to switch to Android for a bit and started using a Moto X a few days ago as my primary phone. My friend and colleague, Joen, inspired this, so it’s only fair to show his notes in comparison each update. Here are my observations in particular order: To quote Joen “Man, there are a… Continue reading Android switch observations, just a few days in
Switching to Android for a bit
This post is the yang to @joen’s yin. He’s a heavy Android user switching to the iPhone and taking notes so I’ll do the opposite. (You should follow his blog) The last Android device I used as my main phone was the original Drooooooooid. And it was awesome. It had a physical keyboard, robot sounds,… Continue reading Switching to Android for a bit