Here’s a fun one. Load this page in Firefox, on a Mac. Drag the red square below to your Desktop. Finder will crash and restart. Yes, I have reported this to apple. This is a file URL overflow bug. Here the URL is converted to a filename, without proper checking of the extension length. … [Read more…]
If you’re like me, you probably have a knack for underestimating the depth of rabbit holes. This was one that I knew could get a little hairy, and I’m not out of the woods yet. I’ve been playing with the STM32F103C8T6 blue pill board and the JGAurora A5S board with a STMF103ZET6 chip. Here is … [Read more…]
It has been a tough few years for photobucket’s reputation… In 2017 they launched their new paid “P500” plan, holding millions billions of images on the web to ransom and demanding $400 per year, which unsurprisingly, didn’t go down well… For a recent website, I needed to use photobucket because they offer an email-to-upload service … [Read more…]
So today, I have yet another post about JGAurora – this is the next chapter in the JGAurora 3D printer story for me, and I’m not yet sure of how things will end. So, to introduce the context of this story, late last year, JGAurora sent me their latest (at the time) JGAurora A5 printer … [Read more…]
I initially had an idea of writing a bridge from DMX to talk to the YN360 wand-light, but for a few reasons I found that this would not work well, primarily due to the high latency in the connection. Instead, I’m publishing my code for talking to the YN360 using the BLE Nano from RedBear labs, … [Read more…]
So one of my recent new toys professional purchases was a lightsaber photography light wand. More specifically, the Yongnuo YN360. This is a icelight clone, that in my opinion is significantly more flexible, offering white light with variable temperature control, as well as providing arbitary RGB lighting as well. Frankly, the light was a great help at adding … [Read more…]
So, if like me, you were crazy enough to wonder… Can I buy a R700 Logitech laser pointer remote, a cheap green laser from eBay, and get myself a R800 for cheap? The answer is sadly no. The green laser pointers on eBay are great, BUT, the laser module inside is significantly (and fatally) too … [Read more…]