Buying a Torch

I love learning about technology and gadgets, and a topic I have taken an interest in recently is torches. I’ve actually bought a whole bunch of torches lately… so I’ll probably be putting a video comparison and review together in the coming months. There’s a lot of great info out there already, but I distilled down what I’ve … [Read more…]

Nura Headphones: First Impressions

I was fortunate enough to get a try of the groundbreaking Nura headphones prototypes earlier this week – quite amazing! I love great audio, and have spent quite a bit (though by audiophile standards – barely anything) of money on finding the right pair of headphones – and DAC. Unfortunately for me, I have fairly … [Read more…]

Port Forwarding and UPnP not Working on Advanced Tomato Firmware

Edit 2: 31/10/18 If you’re having problems and you’re still on an older shibby, irateb provided the following suggestion: “there’s a setting in Tomato called Cut Through Forwarding (CTF) that was enabled in Advanced > Miscellaneous. That setting supposedly gives a slight performance boost by bypassing some of the protocol overhead, but not without some … [Read more…]

Mini Retina Display – Enclosure [PART 2]

I wanted to make myself a mini-retina display to accompany my iMac. I discussed the solution I chose, and both the electronics and software in part 1. Enclosure Design For the enclosure, I considered 3D printing, but instead decided to go with a laser-cut approach. I designed the case to be produced from sheets of material, … [Read more…]

Myki Bits.

Saw an article in the news that I thought was amusing: what-it-feels-like-to-owe-27-million-on-your-myki-20150612-ghm1mh   The premise: someone has racked up a bill of $2.7M on their card. How? They helpfully posted a balance statement: That number is a bit special. Lets convert it to binary: 268435000 = 1111111111111111111000111000 Hey, look at all those ones? Wonder what happens if … [Read more…]

Launch pad: warming oxygen tanks

This is it. I’m finally going to have a place to put those bits and pieces. To share those command line gems that are the result of endless google searches. That regex query that I perfected. The projects I have planned (very exciting… not telling yet though). The latest kickstarter I’ve backed. That photo that … [Read more…]