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Category Archives: Hacking
Escher’s Burr oplossen
Ik volg een opleiding tot meubelmaker op het HMC Next. Afgelopen donderdag kwam er iemand, laten we hem [de Boswachter] noemen, naar onze klas met de vraag “Wie kan deze puzzel oplossen?”. De puzzel bestaat uit 6 houten stukken die in elkaar geschoven moeten worden. Meerdere mensen hadden er uren aan gepuzzeld en konden geen …
Home entertainment rebuild (1)
I used to have a “home entertainment system” to play music (MP3), radio (web streams) and movies (via a beamer). The music/radio portion ran on a raspberry pi 1, the movies I played from a Lenovo desktop.However, all parts were om the edge of their usable lifetime or already broken. Old setup My old setup …
Key organizer from old shoes
I made key hangers from old hiking boots
A pouch for my passport
How I seam a pouch for my passport
Downloading tile maps
I love the website Cartesius, which has a trove of old topographic maps of Belgium.One of the maps that I consult the most is a stitch of all topographic maps of Belgium of 1969, zoomable and pannable like openstreetmaps. However, lately, the site has been acting strangely. The front portal continuously reloads, so it is …
Repairing my fridge
I have a fridge I bought in 2009. In the door, there is a tray that holds heavy items like yoghurt cartons. That tray was held up with two tiny tabs on each side, which fall in a slot in the side of the tray. In 2013, those tabs broke off, which rendered the tray …
Using the LCD
I found an old beaten-up CD player a while back, and decided to take out the human interface card, with the LCD and buttons on it. In a previous episode, I managed to get the LCD to do something. Now, I will try to let it do exactly what I want it to do! The …
Scanning keys
Now that I deciphered where everything goes and how everything works, it was time to make sure I build a foundation to make the I/O a little more usable, instead of fetching raw data. Fist stop: make the input buttons accessible. Working with keypresses is actually not as simple as I intuitively thought. If you …
Controlling the card
I found an old beaten-up CD player a while back, and decided to take out the human interface card, with the LCD and buttons on it. In a previous post, I found out where all the connections on the PCB go and how they connect the buttons, LCD and chips together and what they do. …