Category: Projects
A collection of my projects, from the electrical and electronic to the software and home improvement.
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AC multi-way light switch
My garage has a single light switch in it for its overhead fluorescent lights. This light switch is not conveniently located; it is situated beyond our freezer, such that one has to walk into the darkened garage in order to turn the switch on. So I made an electronic 3-way switch. “Why?”, you ask. Indeed.…
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Surround Sound Debug
For some reason, this keeps happening to me. I must be doing it wrong. But I’ve either been too stubborn or too distracted to find the better way to do it. I’ve installed surround sound wiring into my abodes at least five times (twice in my bachelor days at two different apartments , and thrice…
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Parody Circuits
I ran across this most excellent xkcd comic the other day: It’s just so funny on so many levels, if you’re a EE. Let’s just go clockwise around the page, starting at the top left. I love that the battery voltage is a square root. Just so obscure and mathematically nerdy. Gluing open the switch? …
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Pro bono blog development
As my wife can attest, I’ve been lost in the world of code again. It‘s happened before. This time, I was working on a big project for an NPO for which I do part-time admin work. The project involved updating their WordPress theme. I had not selected the previous theme they were using; it was…
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Cell phone connector fix
My good friend James contacted me with an electronics problem. Seems his daughter’s cell phone was on the fritz. So I agreed to take a look. She has a Pantech P7000 flip phone, but it stopped charging. I asked a few questions first to understand the nature of the problem. For instance: James gave me…
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iPod jukebox (phase 2): prototype
You remember the first phase of the iPod jukebox, yes? To jog your memory, the basic goal was simple. How do I make these dust-collecting components: …work with my iPhone in order to have music in my workshop? Simple concept, not so simple electronics. The project is mostly a connectivity issue, i.e., there are tons…
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blog retrospective
It’s fun to look back and read your own thoughts from years ago. This blog has served as my journal in that respect. But it’s also fun to literally look back and see my blog as it’s progressed. With the help of the interwebz, this is possible.
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blogging challenge, part 2
Last time, I talked about my blogging (bad) habits. This time, I want to go over the solutions I found and the ones I developed to help me streamline the process.
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Samsung LCD monitor repair
A while back, a guy contacted me through my blog about contracting some monitor repair. He had come to acquire a bunch of LCD monitors that all had failed in similar fashion. So I took him up on his offer to repair them so he (and I) could resell them all.
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Blogging, galleries, and code authorship
Sometimes I feel I can’t leave well enough alone. The obsessive compulsive tinkerers out there will understand what I’m talking about. Oops, I did it again.