Category Archives: tech

Minicom is an old-school serial terminal emulator, and is indispensable for developing serial projects with Linux. It turns out that most of the things I need to do involve repeating a few commands over and over, and it would be … Continue reading →

This time around, we are having a workshop on the venerable 555 timer. If you’ve never soldered before or perhaps need a bit more hands-on experience to kickstart your geek career, come check it out! But be right quick and … Continue reading →

Just for fun, I picked up an older tape deck and a VCR to see what interesting stuff was in them. Among the spoils were a number of motors, some nice switches, a nifty looking solenoid and a VU meter. … Continue reading →

I finished upgrading to gutsy gibbon (from feisty fawn) yesterday. The whole thing went quite smoothly. There were only two things that tripped me up. The first was something in my firefox configuration that prevented it from working correctly. I’m … Continue reading →

I finally got around to converting the remote control that came with my new car stereo into a steering-wheel mounted controller. The idea is pretty straightforward; I broke open the remote control and soldered in remote switches in parallel with … Continue reading →

I swore i would finish something else before I tried this, but anyway i managed to get this thing more or less working tonight. I am running Ubuntu 7.04, using a Kensington bluetooth dongle, the Wiimote drivers and the electronic … Continue reading →

Thought these were interesting: (apparently) some dudes extracted the key for Wii game encryption by shorting memory address lines out while in GameCube mode: (via boingboing) Johnny Lee demonstrates how to turn the Wiimote around and use its IR camera … Continue reading →