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Ingress Badges - Pt. 5

Ingress Badges - Pt. 5

After counting down 5 minutes, the badges go into a deep sleep mode. Previously that was using around 225μA, which was a little bit too much for something that was supposed to be in a deep sleep. After some additional tweaking of

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Optimise jpeg via CLI

Optimise jpeg via CLI

When testing the performance of a website one of the most common recommendations is to optimise images. When you have a large stash of images uploaded over years of blogging, downloading and optimising them all might not seem worth it, but the

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Ingress Badges - Pt. 4

Ingress Badges - Pt. 4

Almost complete! Please excuse the overly bright lights, it doesn't look that bad in real life. The lights count down the 5 minutes until your next hack. Currently showing off; * Flashing an updated program to the ATtiny85 after it's been soldered

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Ingress Badges - Pt. 3

Ingress Badges - Pt. 3

After applying resin to the badge, it seems to have smudged the ink. I will have to test sealing methods to prevent the ink from running.

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Ingress Badges - Pt. 2

Ingress Badges - Pt. 2

Starting phase two of development. This time with colour copies. Pushing the button on the back starts a 5 minute 'hacking' cool down timer. Project not complete just yet, still have to coat with epoxy resin on the front and back to

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Ingress Badges - Pt. 1

Ingress Badges - Pt. 1

Had fun making progress on the (Hacking Timer) Ingress Badges. Todays adventure involved picking a size and experimenting with wiring and LED frequency. Just a new timing bugs to sort out before working on the colour test run. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rough cutout Smooth cutout Testing charlieplexing

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New RAH Timelapse, 1 year later

New RAH Timelapse, 1 year later

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MakeMKV Auto ripper

MakeMKV Auto ripper

We're now in the age of digital movies and media players such as Plex, and for those of us who bought DVDs and BDs getting up and inserting a physical disk can be such a task when you want

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New RAH time-lapse

New RAH time-lapse

Ever since I was told that the New Royal Adelaide hospital had a webcam available for public I decided to create a time-lapse from begining to end. I will be following the construction of the New RAH, saving the live webcam

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How to create SSH Keys

How to create SSH Keys

Too many websites give long winded explanations of creating SSH keys for a password-less login, following all of the useless extra commands can be tedious but it's actually really simple. In the end it boils down to; Create ssh keys, if you've done

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Problems with expect & cron

Problems with expect & cron

One of the problems with using a cron to automate tasks in Linux is losing the user environment. With one of my recent projects I've been using expect [http://linux.die.net/man/1/expect] to automate some uploading to my webserver rather then setting up SSH keys (out

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