Hell yeah they are.  We are going camping!!

Panaracer fire xc pro mtb 2.1

I got some new tires for my bike in preperation of biking / camping trip this laybor day weekend.

Put them on tonight then went for a loop throught settlers cabin. Butter.

I remember my grandmother showing me how to make links out of gum wrappers when I was knee high to a duck.  I still remember 🙂

I upgraded a htpc from 10.04 to 11.04 yesterday. All was quick and painless. One prompt for updating a conf file. Then goes to reboot. Errrrror no display. The connected tv does not have the resolution for the grub screen so can not pick alt kernel to boot. 

Connecting into ssh I saw that when loading nvidia module says no display and fails to start X11. Try to fix for a little then pass on that project for the night.

While at work ran updates on my notebook. I saw there was a kernel update but didn’t think much of it. These updates produce the same results at htpc at home 🙁 I was able to boot into 2.6.38-10 on the notebook from grub.

Worst week in my use of OSS. Now have two systems to repair.

With luck on my side will have video here soon enough.

<update>FAIL: The batteries were not as good as I thought. The camera took about an hours worth of photos and then turned off. 🙁
</update>

I set the camera up to point in the north western skies towards Pittsburgh International Airport.

With luck that..

Doesn’t rain
Batteries don’t die WINNER!!
No one steals it
Bird doesn’t shit on lens
Meteor doesn’t hit it

..it will all work out swell.

“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it’s the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.”, Ken Robinson

In order to resolve some mobile electronics issues, I decided to pick up a spare ashtray and modify it into a dock for my phone.  I felt that making something would provide a better solution that the one size fits all phone docks.  Additionally I wanted something that would look cleaner than a suction cup to my windshield / dash to hold my phone and wires all over the place.

After getting the spare ashtray I realised that would be a good place to have the usb (mp3) for my head unit in the same location.  When locating the female USB port (front case panel from dell computer). I noticed that I could use the headphone port for AUX/In as well.

De-solder a few components then hack the shit out of it 🙂  Notice the pins of the USB and headphone jack that was removed, they were not coming out easily so mild force was use to just pry them out after solder was removed.

The next phase will be to get the interconnecting wires attached and to design the cradle part of the dock.  (need the power cable / micro usb to connect to the phone when in a case and not.)

— UPDATE —
After the great guess on the order of the 4 usb (4-3-2-1!) I caught a snag on the 1/8in headphone. seems the outer two posts were the signal, this was not the orgional guess. Need to purchase a meter.

completed cable

Ports in ashtray for plugs to connect

Decided on a KISS method on designing the cradle part. I just removed the area where the plug comes up. This also allows for the charger not having to be permanently attached. I used some spare anti slip matt to kill the rattling and vibrations(thanx Jenn:P) v1.0 used this as well haha This time looped the stuff to have a slight suspension on it.