Friday, June 29, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
I just had a Hangout, where I tore apart a swing-arm lamp in preparation for it's reuse as a webc...
I just had a Hangout, where I tore apart a swing-arm lamp in preparation for it's reuse as a webcam mount. Current thought is to pull CAT5 through with the power line, then put USB ends on it. This way, I haven't permanently put the webcam's cable through the frame, thus I can always upgrade, plus with a USB hub and a USB lamp, I can add a light source. I just need the webcam, the ends, the means to mount a camera on the end there.
I should do this more often. It was okay.
I'm not really in the market right now, but if I was, I don't know if I'd want a flat black fake ...
I'm not really in the market right now, but if I was, I don't know if I'd want a flat black fake Les Paul guitar, a glossy black one, a honey sunburst or a gold-top. Any way I go, the pickguard goes off, and probably, a Tone Pros bridge and Bare Knuckle Stormy Monday pickups will come soon enough. I love Allman Brothers, but I don't know if I need to look Allman Brothers to play Allman Brothers. (If I can play Allman Brothers....)
Google TV 2.0. I think we'll get Roku for the living room first. Our living room TV is huge and n...
Google TV 2.0. I think we'll get Roku for the living room first. Our living room TV is huge and nice, but is roughly 8 years old, I think, and of the SVideo, Component and DVI input era, not of HDMI, so this won't work out there because Google TV works as an HDMI pass-through device, and according to my wife, having something in the house that gets Breaking Bad after DishTV drops AMC is utmost priority. But I can dream.
I'm planning on taking screwdrivers to the swing-arm lamp and thinking through the coming web-cam...
I'm planning on taking screwdrivers to the swing-arm lamp and thinking through the coming web-cam mount. My current thought is to somehow hook a camera tripod mount, because webcams are starting to have them. Anything's better than a glob of Sugru.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
My wife's laptop is broken. Disc won't load. I suspect my youngest was juggling it. Thinking that...
My wife's laptop is broken. Disc won't load. I suspect my youngest was juggling it. Thinking that an SSD is non-negotiable for the next one.
Friday, June 22, 2012
I'm sharing this as the Lafayette Makerspace circle. If you want to be added, comment here and I'...
I'm sharing this as the Lafayette Makerspace circle. If you want to be added, comment here and I'll add you.
My Hacking/Making/Mad Science Plans: * Webcam on an Arm * A One-Key Keyboard sending Scroll Lock ...
My Hacking/Making/Mad Science Plans:
* Webcam on an Arm
* A One-Key Keyboard sending Scroll Lock
* A Networked Dimmable Torchiere Lamp
* Doing SOMETHING with a Belkin WeMo
Anyone know how to get an Arduino to spit out a Scroll Lock keystroke? I'm looking to take the Ma...
Anyone know how to get an Arduino to spit out a Scroll Lock keystroke? I'm looking to take the Make Awesome Button idea and turn it into a switcher for my KVM, and I need to send Scroll Lock.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
For all Greater Lafayette G+ Folks, I'll be doing lunch at Qdoba today at noon. If any of y'all c...
For all Greater Lafayette G+ Folks, I'll be doing lunch at Qdoba today at noon. If any of y'all come, I'd be glad for the company.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
It's still weird when my online world and my physical world connect. Cool. Useful. But still weird.
It's still weird when my online world and my physical world connect. Cool. Useful. But still weird.
Setting up my FitBit. Expect to see occasional links here to my daily stats and progress reports....
Setting up my FitBit. Expect to see occasional links here to my daily stats and progress reports. And far more regular and annoying updates on Twitter and Facebook once I put together the API with some stuff.
Ahh, if only I could update here via API....
Just walked from Stewart Center to Beering up University to Armstrong, past MSEE and Knoy and Gri...
Just walked from Stewart Center to Beering up University to Armstrong, past MSEE and Knoy and Grissom to the Union.
Can any fitness geek's speak to the difference between CardioTrainer and Endomondo? A friend sugg...
Can any fitness geek's speak to the difference between CardioTrainer and Endomondo? A friend suggested CT, Fitness For Geeks talked up Endomondo, and the way I see 'em, they are two minutely differentiated implementations of the same concept. Thoughts?
Reading Fitness fort Geeks. I'm in the tools and apps section. There's a section called Gears != ...
Reading Fitness fort Geeks. I'm in the tools and apps section. There's a section called Gears != Health, which is always a coupious thing to remember. Product is not process. You can have a closet full of toothpaste and mouthwash and stool have bad teeth. You can have got installed and a github account for offside storage and still lose your changes in a disc crash.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Coding Standards for Perl from CERT. Must read through them. I'm guessing that they'll be availab...
Coding Standards for Perl from CERT. Must read through them. I'm guessing that they'll be available as Perl::Critic modules before I get to them.
On the "Names for Hackerspaces" subject, this has to be my favorite name, as a name. How you go f...
On the "Names for Hackerspaces" subject, this has to be my favorite name, as a name. How you go from there to "that MUST be a hackerspace" is less of an obvious thing.
Monday, June 18, 2012
I'm signed up to this Arduino Webcast from O'Reilly I think a big part of my problem is hardware ...
I'm signed up to this Arduino Webcast from O'Reilly
I think a big part of my problem is hardware based -- I have an Arduino but not much to connect it to -- but want to have my mind expanded.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Saw Sunday's Mythbusters as I psyched up to run this AM. The myth, as presented, is "don't bring ...
Saw Sunday's Mythbusters as I psyched up to run this AM. The myth, as presented, is "don't bring a knife to a gunfight", and they proved that Jamie could stab Adam before he got his gun ready to go.
Practically, the myth they proved is "Run from a knife, rush a gun." And that's myth confirmed.
I want to do this. I want a swing-arm webcam. But it strikes me that there must be a better mount...
I want to do this. I want a swing-arm webcam. But it strikes me that there must be a better mounting technique than Sugru. Not hat Sugru isn't magic....
Monday, June 11, 2012
If you were to want to do a push-button project, would you want to make your own enclosure with l...
If you were to want to do a push-button project, would you want to make your own enclosure with like a video-game button on it, or this?
I'm thinking this would make the process ... simpler.
I've been running for the last two weeks, and I'd be well into the Couch-to-5K program by the tim...
I've been running for the last two weeks, and I'd be well into the Couch-to-5K program by the time this comes around. I'm thinking of doing this.
Friday, June 8, 2012
For a while, I've been telling people that buying your own servers is a bad idea, and what you re...
For a while, I've been telling people that buying your own servers is a bad idea, and what you really want to do is put it up on the cloud.
There was a meeting recently where it was suggested that we virtualize and get rid of our servers here at the lab. You know what? It feels weird. It feels like we're losing something.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
'May 4, in the midst of the horror, when I turned off my office lights and turned down the bright...
'May 4, in the midst of the horror, when I turned off my office lights and turned down the brightness of my monitors so my eyes would stop screaming, and filled my trash box with tissues filled with mucus and tears while breathing deeply in hopes that the cold air will still my nausea, my co-worker looked over and said "If you have the flu, you should just go home."'
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