Poking my sausage like fingers into the web since 1997
Lindsey and Alex have gone away for a couple of days, leaving me with some alone time to work on hacking projects.
Alex’s Mobile: the wood work has been assembled, and now needs some varnishing before I put all the electronics in. The electronics has been moved from a breadboard to full soldered vero board.
On the [...]
I’ve added a new section to my projects pages, and put a page in place for the baby mobile I’m creating for Alex.
I’ve back dated a load of the updates, as I’d been meaning to post blog entries about the work, but hadn’t gotten round to it.
So far I have a 3d design worked out [...]
I got word from the Contraptor team the other day.
My Contraptor kit has been shipped, and should be with me shortly.
The team had some issues with the initial run of kits, so I’m getting a Beta set, and they will ship me a corrected version, when they get the fabrication issues sorted out, at their [...]
Today Facebook launched their new privacy settings and forced all their users to update their settings.
We noticed at Yahoo! that we were started to get lots of timeouts from Facebook’s APIs that we use on the Yahoo! homepage.
I’ve not heard anything official from Facebook yet, so this next part is all speculation.
I suspect that as [...]
TGIMBOEJ has left the building.
It has been posted on to a fellow hacker in Kent.
In the end I added quite a lot of stuff to the box. Amongst other things a 6MP CCD from an old Fujitsu S20 pro camera, a bunch of motors from CD-ROM and floppy drives and a few discreet ICs
Soon I [...]