First Round of 2018
Kid Letters
Do you remember getting mail when you were younger? It was always exciting. Then we grew up and bills took the joy out of mail.
I wrote letters to my nieces and included a few things like certificates for free ice cream when we go on vacation this summer. They were very excited and wrote back right away.
I may have created monsters. When I told my sister to let the girls know I received their awesome letters, Kennedy asked if I was going to send another letter back. Some day kid. Maybe I should get her an email account instead.
Lamp Repair: Replace Touch Control with a Switch
My Mom’s bedroom lamp was malfunctioning so I told her to send it down with my Dad and I’d take a look at it.
The lamp uses a very common TA-306A touch control unit and the BT134 thyristor on the board often gets fried. I think this might have been my bedroom lamp when I lived with my parents 20 years ago, so there is no sense buying parts for it. I replaced the touch controls with a switch I salvaged from a different lamp.
Why Do [People|Women|Men|Kids]…
Google search suggestions can be quite interesting. I’ve seen people post similar screenshots in the past and one morning, before I got out of bed, I came up with the idea to see what “Why do…” would show. I used an incognito window so the results wouldn’t be influenced by my Google account.
Link Dump – 2018/04/26
- Home Assistant 🤝 Ubiquiti Networks
It’s amazing when companies embrace open source projects like this. Even better when it’s something I use. - HQ Update on Brooke Wells’ video (they were hoping you’d miss it) ⇒
CrossFit’s standards for the Open have been getting more fucked up every year. I have many thoughts and should write a post. - The Canadian Cheese Cartel ⇒
Sounds tough to be a cheese lover in Canada. - 10 MasterLocks, 2 minutes
Don’t buy a MasterLock No. 3 to secure anything valuable. - “Nerves Of Steel”; Southwest Airlines Pilot Lauded As A Hero
We have a part of the aircraft missing.
Can you imagine?
- Priority Mail Delivery Map
Neat how the map works to show 1-3 day deliveries. - Continued: the answers to your questions for Eben Upton ⇒
Read about some of the things they’re thinking about for future Raspberry Pis.
Photo Challenge: Lines
How fitting that I picked up tamales for lunch today with the photo challenge focusing on lines.
Boldport: The Conehead (#24)
My second month of Boldport Club is #24 The Conehead. It’s a custom PCB design of a cricket and it chirps based on how much light the “eye” can see. According to video timestamps it took about an hour to assemble the kit and it was a lot of fun using the electronics components in different ways.
Myself
’67-’68 Michigan Map
Remember when everyone kept a map in their glovebox? This old Michigan map was in a stack of documentation the seller gave me when I bought the ’68 truck.
The 1960 Census info on this map had Rogers City with a population of 4,722 and 98,265 for Saginaw. Quite a difference from 2,827 and 51,508 in 2010.
1968 Chevrolet C10 Truck
