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 My old and my new power tool. About 9 1/2 years, two moves and renovating one kitchen – this is how long I was able to enjoy my power tool “Alpha Tools BAS 14,4-1” from Bauhaus. I guess that’s even more than I could have expected from such a no-name – oh, […] Continue reading Time for a new power tool Ever seen a seemingly ok, quite new 24″ Syncmaster SA300 LCD monitor from Samsung – which refuses to show an image, but can display its own system messages? Try a firmware update! I found this solution in the PC Help Forum. A firmware update for a computer monitor you wonder? Yes! Obviously you need […] Continue reading Dark Samsung?  …at least if you don’t know which resistors you have in stock and where they are. For a long time we kept resistors in their original cardboard boxes In our student labs – futily trying at least to sort the boxes according to decades of reistance values. An assortment cabinet labelled for […] Continue reading Resistance is futile  I am a big fan of solderless breadboards and we use these also for our students at Uppsala University. For quite a while I have been using solid-core wire for my connections, but then I discovered the more flexible breadboard wires which have become popular in the Arduino community. A typical […] Continue reading Good and bad wires  (see also my recent appendix to this topic: Hacking an AVR programmer II – especially if you have an ATmega88-based programmer!) On eBay I recently purchased a set of cute small USB AVR programmers which I intend to use in the course 1TE663 Microcontroller Programming at Uppsala University. MK-USBISP-V3.00 programmer in an […] Continue reading Hacking an AVR programmer  Today the art festival “all lights on Uppsala” ended and Christmas season officially started with the 23rd annual fireworks by the local newspaper UNT. 23rd UNT fireworks in Uppsala All lights on Uppsala – Gillbergska genomfarten During the festival, the artists and the city officials wanted to emphasize why LEDs […] Continue reading Magic lights in Uppsala Money has to be saved everywhere these days, but should a public entity be allowed to flog the family silver? The city of Stralsund, UNESCO world heritage site, has recently silently and covertly sold off a unique library collection. An online petition was started with the aim to revoke this action: […] Continue reading City of Stralsund flogs unique library collection Based on my experience buying electronic components on ebay I decided to maintain a personal white-list and black-list of ebay sellers. |
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