March 11th, 2010
Last time I talked about my photoframe and room control setup. It was a laptop modification, and some hacking around in cheap remote controlled switches and simple scripts. I rebuilt most of the system now: a silent PC with normal screen serves the photos, it can control the lights and devices using a commercial product, there are cameras in the room and on the street, it’s all being shown and controlled by a slick webinterface, and my grandparents are quite happy with my old photoframe in their living room. :-)
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January 18th, 2010
In 2007 I decided it would be cool to build a digital photo frame, out of a broken laptop. I bought the laptop from a friend of mine, as it was pretty old and useless, considering the keyboard didn’t work. With some help of my grandpa and his tools, I built it. Later, I added speech recognition and control of the lights in my room.
Most of the original source code is lost, and the system doesn’t work well anymore, so I’m redesigning it. In a few months you can expect another blog post on this, but I thought a writeup of the old design would be nice.
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September 10th, 2009
One of the coolest projects I have worked on resulted in the turning of heads when biking through the city, and was also a great challenge as it involves some tricky hardware and software. The result was pretty darn amazing though.
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