technology
30 Reasons I Don’t Buy Crap
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Back a while ago when we were still in the apartment, our Toshiba DVD player bit the dust. It was on the fritz for at least a few months before that…sometimes the DVD tray would refuse to open/close, sometimes the DVD would skip tracks, all-in-all creating a really poor DVD viewing experience. When we moved [...]
Education Goes Full Circle
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008In the fall of 2001 during my first ever college lab at UC, we played with LEGOS. That’s right, LEGOS. The lab was Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the LEGOS were actually robots…sort of. In 1998 LEGO introduced a programmable LEGO brick known as the LEGO MINDSTORMS RCX (or something [...]
Laptop Guts Make Great Picture Frames
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Below I’ve created a photo documentary (uh, sure) of how I transformed my old laptop into a new digital picture frame. Taking apart laptops is not very fun, especially since I was trying not to break anything! There were ~100 tiny screws, parts taped on, and plastic pieces everywhere. I used foam [...]
A Transformation: Old Laptop –> New Digital Picture Frame
Thursday, March 6th, 2008In this post I will attempt to explain [in all the gory details] the steps I used to turn my old laptop into a do it yourself LCD digital picture frame. This is a continuation on the last two posts, so I apologize if my loyal readers (all six 6,000 of them) are getting [...]
Bringing a Laptop Back From the Dead
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008In my previous post I talked about how a certain brain lapse of mine caused a sudden and painful death of a certain 6.5 year old laptop. Kevin even took the time to say a few words about my unfortunate experience. It was a sad day, sure, but there is a happy ending. [...]
A Do It Yourself Screw-up
Friday, February 29th, 2008Last week for some reason unknown to anyone, I decided it would be a good idea to take my old laptop and morph it into a digital picture frame. You know what I’m talking about; those picture frames that you plug into a wall while connecting a memory card and then the photo on [...]
The Rise and Fall of the Optical Disc
Monday, January 28th, 2008CDs have been around since 1982. I’ve been around since 1982. Some might say the introduction of the aforementioned items mark two of the most important dates in history…both US and World.
Maybe you don’t like history, but you should really know about these things. Especially the date of my birthday (November 18). [...]