User:Espero

Colin Rowat, c.rowat@espero.org.uk

I am currently working on:

• a third fourth 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 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:

• develop a tracking device that could fit in the front tube of my children's scooters in an attempt to detect the thief stealing scooters from their school
• 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)
• 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.