Do you like my charger for the Playbook? No, it’s not because I lost the original, neither because I have so much free time that I’d rather take apart my tablet instead of buying a replacement cable. It’s because some engineer thought it would be clever to require at least 1 or 2% of battery left to start the charging process. Now that doesn’t make sense at all. Seriously? I haven’t used/charged my playbook in a month, so there’s no […]

If you have a spare old computer and electricity bills don’t worry you so much, what do you do? I decided to use mine as my media streaming server. I put my favorite music and movies onto it and initially I simply streamed them to the Wii in my living room and to my laptop. After a while I realized that when I’m cooking I also like to listen to my music (or web radio). So here came the idea […]

So lately I’ve been taking some introductory classes that are part of my Electrical Engineering minor and I have to say that they turned out to be quite boring and never deviated from the typical “looking at graphs on the oscilloscope and calculating values on circuit diagrams”. Yet the subject is extremely interesting (and fun to play with), so I started reading on my own. I was particularly interested to read about programmable micro controllers, so I couldn’t wait much […]