In my apartment the “guest room” only has room for our sports equipment. Even with that it is difficult to get to the snowboards with the bikes in the way and everything is a hassle. From the time i thought this up to when I had the bikes on it was about an hour. It …
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Geek gift guide for 2011 – electronics geeks
_Electronics geeks Hello, world! This is the second geek gift guide post. The first was more general, and this is specifically showing gifts aimed at electronics geeks. Keep your eye peeled for a few more guides. You can measure up an electronics geek by the amount of time that passes between unwrapping a gift and …
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Geek gift guide for 2011 – Misc Geeks
Tinyenormous Geek gift guide for 2011 There are a lot of sites out there that have gifts for geeks. The problem is that it is really difficult for a non-geek boyfriend or girlfriend to pick something appropriate unless they are geeks themselves. The purpose of this guide is to break down a bunch of gift …
Wired is supposed to be techy, right?
Why can’t they figure out their blog summary code? It has looked like this as long as I have been reading it. Most of the summaries include blog-only code (like “previous image-next image” above) or errors in passing non-text elements (“???” everywhere!) “Beyond the beyond” was the worst offender, but they seem to have finally …
Building the Bliptronome v0.1 and 0.2
So here is the followup to my last Bliptronome post. As I said I bought a bliptronic-5000 from thinkgeek over christmas break and was working on it back at home. I didn’t have very much for spare parts or tools, so I had to make due with that I had. Here is the box it …
Cheap Monome built from a toy and and arduino – bliptronome
I’ve watched the monome videos for quite a while now, and I’ve really enjoyed them. I love how the unlabeled device looks so useful in someone else’s hands, but I know it’s really tough to learn. I have wanted one for a bit, but the makers (who seem awesome) only release small runs every once …
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Thank you for voting / Ponoko test fit pieces!
First – a big thank you to everyone who voted for me in the sparkfun / ponoko / Geekdad contest – I won! From here on out I will be documenting my process as I go from rough prototype to finished laser cut beer vending machine! There will be an upcoming longer piece on how …
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Dear Media temple, why do I keep getting hacked?
I have been running my two blogs on media temple for quite some time. Recently they have been getting hacked. Very frequently. My hosting provider is Media Temple, and I can’t say I am very happy with them right now. I am hesitant to say that the hacks all are media temple’s fault, but at …
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Vote for TinyEnormous! wired/sparkfun/ponoko contest
Sparkfun, Ponoko, and Geek dad from wired have all teamed up to create a contest for us makers. The rules are simple: design something that uses sparkfun’s parts and Ponoko’s cutting services. The top ten coolest designs get picked by a panel and then the best one gets picked by an online vote! I have …
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What do vendors gain by making closed hardware?
I have a Hp mini netbook, an xbox, a canon 7D dslr, a canon powershot point and shoot camera and an iphone. The netbook is a hackintosh. The xbox has a mod chip so it can act as a media server. The powershot is running CHDK which enables an intervalometer and motion detection. The iPhone …
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