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Convert books into PDF taking photos of pages
Convert books into PDF taking photos of pages and processing them into a searchable digital backup copy of that you can take anywhere.
Make PCBs with toner transfer: the laminator method
Quick, accurate, cheap and easy PCBs using the toner transfer method with the aid of a laminator and the ikea catalog.
Mini voltmeters are awesome
These mini voltmeters are really tiny. One of them would be a great addition to any variable power supply project.
20W Hong Kong led vs conventional lights
Pictures of a 20W led i found from an HK seller on eBay: impressive results! This led product could replace conventional lighting. At last led tech is mature enough to enter mass market.
MassiveLyrics: get all the lyrics for your iTunes library
Fill the lyrics of your entire iTunes library in one click with this OSX app. No more blank lyrics on the iPod!
Stepperino alpha version
Stepperino is a stepper motor controller based on arduino and cheap, commonly available components. This early version is capable of controlling an unipolar stepper motor (5, 6 or 8 wires) in full step mode and is the first step towards more sophisticated control to be achieved in firmware.
my wet iPhone dissection
The disassembly of my 2g phone that I accidentally dropped into water (toilet water to be precise)
Setting up mt-daapd/firefly
mt-daapd, aka firefly, allows to serve a music folder directly to any iTunes running in your home network. This is great to share music across the house or to keep a music dump folder aside from your main itunes library.
Setting up Avahi
Avahi advertises the shares made available by netatalk to macs in your home network via bonjour, so that connecting to the file server means just clicking on its icon. This is how to set it up.
Setting up netatalk
How to install and configure netatalk to serve files from ubuntu server to macs in your home network.
Enabling ssh access
ssh enables remote terminal access to a linux box, and is the first step towards an headless machine. This is how to configure it for the first time in ubuntu
Setting up MDADM
MDADM (multi disk admin) is the software implementation of RAID on linux. It can be used to take a bunch of disks and make them into a single, powerful drive. This leads to several advantages, depending on the raid configuration you choose to implement.
ATOM/ION nas home server
Build and configure a cheap NAS/HTPC box based around the new Intel Atom processor and Nvidia ION chipset. Low power consumption, your files everywhere, torrenting, automated backups, reproduction of 1080p video, all for under 400$: how could you do without?
WordPress upgrade to 2.9.1: error 500
Just got through a wordpress upgrade and got a 500 internal server error instead of your site? Here is my quick fix! Maybe it can save your site too.
Put that old stereo of yours to good use
If you are like me you spent all of your teen years listening to music like mad, with your best friend from the past: a big, bulky and weirdly shaped stereo system with speakers. Here’s mine. I never use it now: all my music is on the server or on my macbook, and thinking of [...]
Mac-esque wallpapers from Corse
While on a solitary cliff in Corse I found some stunning greenish patches of rocks. They were perfect for some mac style wallpapers.
Lyricwiki.org API ban workaround
Lyrics can be fetched again from lyricwiki.org in spite of the ban of the API from major music producers. One more little victory of digital freedom
Underwater photos up to 12mt
See how to take photos underwater with an inexpensive digital camera enclosure.
lyricwiki API shutdown
LyricWiki.org API has been shut due restrictions from major music publishers. The posts which offered the dadelyrics widget and the massive lyrics update scripts won’t have files to download anymore.
Simple Lyrics Widget: dadelyrics
This widget looks up the lyrics for the song currently being played in iTunes, either from the lyrics field of the current track or from the internet if you press the lightning button. That’s it: no strings attached.
Massive iTunes lyrics update
A Ruby script to download and add the lyrics for multiple songs in iTunes. No more blank lyrics on the iPod!
Server is dead
Plans for the construction of a new home server, after the one I had suddenly broke up. It will be the occasion to go for a silent machine!
A day at the Delio lake
A BBQ day at the Delio lake in northern italy: a beautiful and unknown artificial lake immersed in pine woods.
Night dive led flasher
The light beacons for nocturnal scuba diving can get quite expensive if bought at the store. Here’s a much cheaper alternative using easy to find / junk parts.
Offline webclips for the iPhone
how to turn a regular PDF file into an offline webclip for the iPhone. Very useful for documents you need on the go such as train/bus schedules, maps and so forth.