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I '''know how to''': | I '''know how to''': | ||
* pick a two-pin lock | * pick a two-pin lock | ||
| − | * write in {{Template:LaTeX}}, | + | * write in {{Template:LaTeX}}, most enjoyably Till Tantau's [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/ PGF/TikZ] and Ulrike Fischer's [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chessboard chessboard] and [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xskak xskak] |
I '''would like to''': | 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 | * 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 | + | * [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 |
* hack my Kindle so that it can do what a Linux box should be able to do | * hack my Kindle so that it can do what a Linux box should be able to do | ||
* code up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes Black-Scholes option pricing formula] in an [http://esolangs.org/wiki esoteric programming language] to add to Espen Haug's [http://www.espenhaug.com/black_scholes.html list] | * code up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes Black-Scholes option pricing formula] in an [http://esolangs.org/wiki esoteric programming language] to add to Espen Haug's [http://www.espenhaug.com/black_scholes.html list] | ||
Revision as of 22:14, 18 March 2012
Colin Rowat, c.rowat@espero.org.uk
I am currently working on:
- a third visit to Hackspace
I have:
- 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 Raspberry Pi (forthcoming)
- 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 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
- a children's weather station
- an article in Adbusters
- three children with recent incept dates (do not hack)
- one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
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
- hack my Kindle so that it can do what 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?)