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RGB LED Lamp

May 20, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment


It was another great weekend with DIY idea:)
Its a kind of mini lamp for the desk with nice colors.
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Filed Under: DIY, Fun Tagged With: DIY, LED, RGB Lamp

Your own weatherstation

April 12, 2011 by Igor Drobot 4 Comments


Create a own weather station or temperature monitoring using a tiny digital temperature sensor.

I use this setup to monitor a server room, and outdoor temperature and as a weather station.

This project consists of interface between RS-232F and the Dallas one Wire system.

You need: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bash, Debian, DIY, Fun, Linux Tagged With: 1.5 kOhm resistor, 3.9V Zener diode, 6.2V Zener diode, digitemp, DS1820, DS18s20, RS-232

Ambilight for your monitor

April 3, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

Ambilight-TV is great, why not for your home monitor?
Build your own ambilight for home PC!

What you need:
– 2 Cold light cathodes (Length: 316mm)
– 1 Inverter
– 2 Cables about 1 meter
– Solder, Soldering Iron and equipment
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Filed Under: DIY, Fun Tagged With: ambilight, DIY, light cathodes, modding

Excuse the downtime

February 26, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

Some funny downtime excuses:

  • We’re a free service. Goddamn.
  • Does anyone know how to fix a database cluster?
  • Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
  • Squirrels.
  • Did we mention we re-hired Jakob Lodwick this weekend?
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    Filed Under: Fun Tagged With: downtime, reasons for downtime

    Make your linux speaking

    November 28, 2010 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

    Speaker

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    echo 'you are a loser' | festival --tts

    echo 'you are a loser' | festival --tts

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    for count in $(seq 1 10) ; do espeak "Go Away" ; done

    for count in $(seq 1 10) ; do espeak "Go Away" ; done

    Make speaker louder:

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    amixer -c 0 sset Master,0 100%;
    amixer set Master 100%
    # or
    amixer set PCM 100%

    amixer -c 0 sset Master,0 100%; amixer set Master 100% # or amixer set PCM 100%

    Another funny things:

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    export DISPLAY=:0
    xmessage 'YOU ARE BEING WATCHED. MUHAHAHAHahaha'

    export DISPLAY=:0 xmessage 'YOU ARE BEING WATCHED. MUHAHAHAHahaha'

    Filed Under: Bash, Fun, Linux Tagged With: alsamixer, espeak, Fun

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