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Firefox 4 has a nice builtin synchronization feature – too bad that it’s a bit of a hassle to sync to a own server if you don’t feel like giving your data away (even if encrypted). Luckily the guys at Mozilla know how to deal with us hacker folks, so they released weave, the underlying server architecture for syncing.
It’s actually quite simple to get it running once you’ve found the right site. Although there is a simple-to-setup “weave-minimal-server” it seems that it is outdated and not anymore compatible with the API used in FF4. But as it goes you really only need to grab the sources from http://hg.mozilla.org/services/sync-server/ and http://hg.mozilla.org/services/reg-server/ and follow the instructions provided in the README combined with a little general administrators knowhow (you really want to watch your chmods and ACLs…). As soon as my installation is used by a couple more users and teste i will publish more detailed instructions on blog.kanojo.de! -
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Recently trying to solder SMD parts for a diy-able low-cost-per-deployment-arduino-board (which can be found here: http://bluesceada.blogs.ghostdub.de/2010/12/23/freeduino-etching-at-home/ ). Problem’s to get the SMD parts clean on it with a old/bad solder-iron… some cheap flux came to rescue! With flux – even if it’s cheap (i bet you guys out there using better flux wouldn’t want to solder using something like that) – even the ftdi chip was no problem at all! I just ebay’ed for a cheap large package and found thingies like http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/1/4/5/0/1/0/webimg/408441030_o.jpg which are meant for xbox rrod fixing … it works, seems to be made by a well known company (balverzinn, try googeling for the product-id on the package)!
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For someone like me you need a really simple PCB layout program – and best it runs on linux too. Eagle is really nice – even though unfree (as in speech) – but it lacks some useability aspects. It took me two hours to design a package that wasn’t in the libs yet (and no, google didn’t find anything) and even then that part wouldn’t work for magical reasons. So, some searching and i’ve found http://www.diptrace.com/ – unfree too, but officially supported on wine (it DOES run smoothly on a recent wine) and … what should i say? Even a beginner like me can design a simple new package and simple board with good looking layout in under a hours. Yay!
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Lights for your figure display cabinets:
As we have quite some glass cases (partly DIYed, partly IKEA
) a nice solution of unobstrusive internal lighting was needed. The german Electronics-crap supllier “Pollin” has something nice:A 48CM LED-Strip with internal resistors, 2pack only 4.50Eur. Wow! Add a cheap 12V SMPS, some glue or doublesided tape and you’re there! Alternatively you can check Dealextreme here: http://tinyurl.com/6j93njy
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New Camera (Canon S90, go go low-noise and high-iso
) arrived, now as it probably can do not-all-that-crappy-video and some Kanojo.de BlogPosts would need a video howto to make things clearer i was thinking about how to make ‘em look a little better than those myriads of handhold crapvideos on the net. And here comes hackaday.com into play, a while ago they linked http://www.yb2normal.com/DIYsteadicam.html (or the more current version http://www.yb2normal.com/DIYsteadicam5.html). Now with those (check the example video) nice handhole videos might just be possible. Add two large continuous lights and you’re there … hopefully! -
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I somehow really came to like the idea of this “idea-grave”. If something comes up in my mind i can either archive it here or write a little longer post to inform people, share interesting links, etc. This is so much better than bare twitter or a bare wordpress! Yay for P2!
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It really seems the best way to glue glass for decent looking figure/display cases is … SILICONE. After our try with special glass-glue http://blog.kanojo.de/2010/10/04/custom-modelkit-display-part-2/ here which ended in a near desaster due to the bad adhesive strength of the glue we tried silicone and it works perfect. That and a new (better(!)) glass cutter makes building display cases for your figures really easy. Stay tuned for a kanojo.de blogpost which will be coming up!
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The MarkAudio CHR70 seems like a decent little chassis for a mini broadband driver, luckily someone already developed one: http://tinyurl.com/4hrns2r.
It’s rather cheap given the excellent looking (for such a small driver) frequency response i really want to try it out. Good thing a birthday’s coming up!
(Credits for the design/pics to the originator of the Thread on HiFi-Forum)
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After checking out almost all DIY ChipAmps out there and nothing (Except for the TDA1562Q, which does 40W on 14.4V but has problems in the lower frequency region) seems useable for this. So now checking for (modern) Class-T amps and woosh, there are useable layouts that seem DIY-able. Yay, gotta check deeper into this!
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Also there seems to be a good possibility to drive those lunatic voltages (at least 0-48V) with switchmode powersupplies, MeanWell (at sure-electronics.com or reichelt.de) has them for good prices!
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It seams that there are some quite nice Class-D (or rather, Class-T?) amps that have a small enough external part count to be realized in somehow easy DIY(?!?). TI has some which you can even sample, mono 15-300(!) watts, for example check out http://tinyurl.com/6ko9fzk or http://tinyurl.com/6l5eal3
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Finally came to actually build the TPA1517NE Amplifier – it has a 0-18V PSU and is basically the application note circuit with enlarged output capacitors to get a better low-end result. A first test revealed overall okay sound with maybe a *little* lack on the lower end on larger woofer speakers. The result can be seen on:
http://pics.kanojo.de/cheen.amp.waii/
but a complete blogpost will follow
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After 2 Months finally came to make pictures of the finished speakers…
http://blog.kanojo.de/2011/02/20/new-hifirama-black-beauty/
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The encloser is now finished, now if only there were decent mono mini-amps so i could activate it. http://sound.westhost.com/project19.htm sounds nice but needs those radiators and wants (lunatic?!) 36V … sureelectronics have nice 2*25w which are not bridgeable, so also no option … what to do?!