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Pre-Review : Pebble

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Mk — No Comments ↓

Another reward from one of my KickStarter contributions have recently arrived : The Pebble watch. First off, I think wrist watches are awkward.  All that hardware to just tell time, I find to be overkill.  With smartphones being the powerhouses Continue reading →

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HTPC(W8+ML) : Part 3

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Mk — No Comments ↓

At this point in time, I have a working HTPC that can boot to either Windows 8 or Mountain Lion.  Where do we go from here?   There are a couple of options to explore.  Obviously a video card would Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Blog, Projects | Tagged Booting From USB thumbdrive, dual boot, hackintosh, HTPC, mountain lion, win8, windows 8 | Leave a reply

minor update to lucid goggles

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Mk — No Comments ↓

While I have not achieved any success at lucid dreaming, I have realized a flaw in my design : I can’t shut this thing off. At the time, I didn’t have the necessary parts, so I simply wired everything such Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Projects | Tagged ATTiny85, CoolStuff, DIY, Lucid Dreaming, on/off, rduino | Leave a reply

Lucid Dreaming Goggles

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Mk — No Comments ↓

Lucid Dreaming can be summarized as being aware that you are in a dream – being aware of being in a reality of your own making means that you can control it.  Sort of.   Recently I needed some electronic Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Blog, Projects | Tagged Arduino, ATTiny85, CoolStuff, DIY, Lucid Dreaming | Leave a reply

Lapdock + Raspberry Pi

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Mk — No Comments ↓

Here are some pictures for the cable hack necessary to get the Raspberry Pi and the LapDock to work together. The cable mod consists of a male USB microB plug, female USB microB plug, and a male  USB A plug. Continue reading →

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Hexy Complete!

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Mk — No Comments ↓

Here’s a quickie, got the Hexy up and running, thanks to the folks at Arcbotics!      

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initial impressions – LapDock

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Mk — No Comments ↓

Recently, Motorola quietly killed the LapDock.  This drove down the prices and and made it financially accessible to acquire one(went from ~$150 to about ~$50!)   I acquired one for the Raspberry Pi laptop project(this has been done many, many Continue reading →

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eBay + PayPal, battle of shipping addresses

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Mk — No Comments ↓

Just a quick post – I use eBay frequently, and have been for many, many years.  All my purchases are made via PayPal, and I’ve become accustomed to logging into eBay, then click on pay of my item, then log Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, rant | Tagged eBay, Merge Fail, WTF | Leave a reply

Hexy leg assembly (unofficial)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Mk — No Comments ↓

For the sake of records, I want to outline the steps I followed to assemble the legs for my Hexy.  It’s not official in that I pieced them together from the photos I was able to find of the model Continue reading →

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GoPro App letdown

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Mk — No Comments ↓

As an owner of a GoPro Hero2, I got the Wifi BacPac+Remote so that I can take advantage of the ability to preview my video to my smartphone.   Back in June ’12.   And now I got an e-mail from GoPro stating Continue reading →

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