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− | * two Raspberry Pi's (if we received the second on 28 June, do we have a Raspberry [http://tauday.com Tau]?) | + | * two Raspberry Pi's, less the [http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#A_part_broke_off C6 capacitor] (if we received the second on 28 June, do we have a Raspberry [http://tauday.com Tau]?) |
* a [http://www.myzeo.com/sleep Zeo Personal Sleep Coach] | * a [http://www.myzeo.com/sleep Zeo Personal Sleep Coach] | ||
* a Suunto t3 heart rate monitor, with chest strap and watch | * a Suunto t3 heart rate monitor, with chest strap and watch | ||
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* help my children engrave their names on their Haipad M7/Herotab C8/Dropad A8 tablets, and perhaps even repair the screen on one of them | * help my children engrave their names on their Haipad M7/Herotab C8/Dropad A8 tablets, and perhaps even repair the screen on one of them | ||
* [http://developers.myzeo.com/data-decoder-library/ hack my Zeo] so that it can indicate how well rested I am, not just how well I'm sleeping (ideas [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2008.01.007 here] and [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBECS.2010.5462289 here]; project placer [http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:EEG here]) | * [http://developers.myzeo.com/data-decoder-library/ hack my Zeo] so that it can indicate how well rested I am, not just how well I'm sleeping (ideas [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2008.01.007 here] and [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBECS.2010.5462289 here]; project placer [http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:EEG here]) |
Revision as of 10:38, 30 August 2012
Colin Rowat, c.rowat@espero.org.uk
I am currently working on:
- a Python script to solve Digits in a Box before my daughter does
I have:
- two Raspberry Pi's, less the C6 capacitor (if we received the second on 28 June, do we have a Raspberry Tau?)
- a Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
- a Suunto t3 heart rate monitor, with chest strap and watch
- a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set and First LEGO League Challenge 2011 kit
- a ZX81 (somewhere?) with 16k of RAM, and an HP-15C
- an Arduino Uno R3 starter kit from Earthshine Electronics
- a Kindle
- a bunch of old mobile phones (including a SE K608i, a k800i, and a Nokia E90)
- a pair of intact but dysfunctional Realistic TRC-201 GRS transceivers (walkie-talkies)
- a 110 litre tropical fishtank
- a Go and a Mancala board
- a vintage Air Zound rechargeable signal horn
- a Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent
- a Sony CRX1600L (wired for North America)
- an AlcoSense Elite digital breathalyser
- an article in Adbusters
- three children with Y2K-compliant incept dates (Do Not Hack)
- one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
- a Sony DCR-TRV33E mini DV Digital Handycam whose video is shot (centre heads gone?), and probably some cassettes for it
3/4* round(Bachelor of Industrial Design) = 0
I know how to:
- pick a two-pin lock
- write in LaTeX, most enjoyably Till Tantau's PGF/TikZ and Ulrike Fischer's chessboard and xskak
I would like to:
- help my children engrave their names on their Haipad M7/Herotab C8/Dropad A8 tablets, and perhaps even repair the screen on one of them
- hack my Zeo so that it can indicate how well rested I am, not just how well I'm sleeping (ideas here and here; project placer here)
- hack my Kindle so that it can do whatever a Linux box should be able to do
- code up the Black-Scholes option pricing formula in an esoteric programming language to add to Espen Haug's list
- build a roving aquatic cam-bot for our aquarium (heros: Cambridge's coffee cam and Liquid Robotics' PacX Wave Gliders)
- unlock my Desire HD so that I can use a foreign SIM card in it when travelling
- find a good use for my www.wrongdoing.org domain
- make an A3 e-paper device linked to Google Calendar for our kitchen
- help start a Lego WeDo/Mindstorms club (would it be interesting to think about minimal hardware platform for their IDEs?)
- convert a couple of PandoraBots into local RebeccaAIML entities
- open source the Arkel's discontinued Samurai panniers
I have sourced Blinkybug components almost entirely from London shops:
- 5mm LEDs from Maplin
- 3V 2032 Li coin cell batteries from almost anywhere (Homebase was more expensive than the local Post Office)
- guitar string (high E, custom guage 9) from Folkies Music
- 1.6mm OD copper tubing from 4D modelshop
- pipe cleaners and craft glue dots from London Art
- conductive tape from Farnell