Fix your knocking Samsung dryer yourself
That thumping in our Samsung dryer turned out to be a failed weld
It’s a good idea to take a step back
Paula did most of the work, but I will take credit for all of it
Another hardware itteration
Beta unit two hits the road, and this time it comes with a case
Alpha hardware!
First iteration is working! More info at Straight Apex: http://straightapex.com/first-alpha-unit/
Trippy speaker
Was in Best Buy for a power strip and happened upon this Bluetooth speaker. I'm pretty sure the target markets for JBL's new gadget are the states of Washington and Colorado. I have a…
More free music than you can shake a stick at
... and I'm really good at shaking sticks at free music. If you have an Xbox Music subscription make sure you install the Music Deals app. Back in November Microsoft released 100…
Extending the life of an old TV
Paula and I bought our first flat panel HDTV back in 2005. The 32" Samsung was initially installed in our San Jose kitchen before making the trip to Dublin, Ireland and the…
Quick home foundry to melt aluminium
Today I decided to take a creative break and turn our old Weber grill into a foundry... because who doesn't want to melt down old hard drives and turn them into art?…
Labor day jam session 2014
Our annual tradition of making jam on Labor Day continued in style, with a total of 30 jars of jam in 4 different flavors. In previous years we made jam based primarily on the…
Getting a random string from MySQL for Arduino
When I modded Thomas Taylor's Tweeting Dryer project to add a washing machine I also wanted to change the way the phrases used by the washer and dryer were implemented. In the original…
Tweeting washer and dryer for Arduino with Ethernet
My tweeting washer and dryer have been running great for a bit now and I've done some code cleanup to make it less embarrassing to share. The code attached to the post…
Tweeting dryer, now with washer too
Hallelujah! Today I finally finished adding washer monitoring functionality to the tweeting dryer setup I built earlier (see: Getting started with Arduino). Say hello to Gus! My implementation was built up from…
Found him!
He's alive and well in Anchorage playing at the farmers market.
Thank you Akismet!
Akismet is a WordPress plug-in for controlling comment spam, if there are any questionable comments they will be held for moderation. While I do need to sort through a few junk comments…
The magic of 3 and 4 way switches
Our front hall light has three switches, downstairs, upstairs and on the landing by the front door. I finally got tired of having to run up and down the stairs to adjust…
Security bits give you access
On more than one occasion I've wanted to open something up, only to find it has some weird fastener put in place to keep me out. I can understand wanting to keep…