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iPad 2 impressions

April 22, 2011
by in Reviews

I got my new iPad 2 the other day, and am just starting to try out a few applications on it. This page will serve as a place to list applications that I find noteworthy and reviews of accessories, etc. Smart Cover The first thing to talk about is the iPad 2 Smart Cover, which …

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pyTivo plugin for sirius satellite radio on Tivo

November 7, 2010
by in Programming

pyTivo plugin to support Sirius Online Radio Dr. Scott M Baker, http://www.smbaker.com/ Download Link – version 0.1: pytivo-sirius-0.1.tar.gz Limitations – This plugin is extremely beta. Meaning, I got it work well enough that I can listen to “80s on 8” and that’s all that’s really important to me. Things that are known to be broken …

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Plasma Speaker

August 9, 2010
by in Electronics Projects

My efforts to construct a plasma speaker, which is basically an electronic arc modulated by a sound source. It all started from an Instructables article I found on the web, and there were several misadventures as I tried to turn it into a workable design.

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Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope

July 13, 2010
by in Reviews

An oscilloscope is one of the handier pieces of equipment that you can have on your workbench, especially if you’re working with circuits that generate any kind of waveform or have any sort of oscillators. For about a decade I’ve had a decent B&K precision 20Mhz analog scope. I felt it was finally time to …

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Cisco Router Cheat Sheet

July 10, 2010
by in How-To

This is a list of useful things that I’ve done using Cisco IOS via the command line interface. It’s really only for my own use, on my 861W, but in the case it comes in handy for someone else, here it is… Show the configuration: show config ! to show running configuration instead: show running-conf …

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