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Weekend Project: DIY Cat Tower for Dejavu
Last week, my wife and I went out looking for a big cat tower to enable our kitty to escape from our dog, but most of the ones we found were pretty low and had that brown carpet look to them.
So in order to have something we liked and save money, we decided we would build our own custom kittty tower. I thought the wood work would only take me a couple of hours but it ended up taking me way longer... I think I was being very meticulous with measurements and all due to the fact this tower would be sitting in our living room.
On Friday evening, We quickly drafted a design and bought what I thought I would need in order to get this thing done. (Biggest struggle so far... Working with the us metric system)
I spent that evening mostly cutting up the parts, and gave up at about midnight because of course I had not bought everything I needed!
Saturday, we went to get what we needed to continue working on it and spent most of the day cutting, fitting, measuring, etc. Saturday night, we were able to cover some of the posts with fabric and called it a day.
Lastly, on Sunday I spent most of the morning covering up the parts with fabric and fitting/attaching all the pieces together and the evening on giving it some final touches.
And the end result...
Dejavu (our kitty) checking out her new digs
Leverage - Chileans. Don't Mess With Chileans. (With subs!)
I was watching a few episodes I missed from season one when I stumbled upon this. It really cracked me up (maybe it is only funny to me because I am Chilean?), so I thought I would put it up here for your enjoyment :)
Check out this quick hack I made with tropo :)
I have been hearing a lot of buzz lately about tropo, so I thought I would check it out.
The result of my curiosity is a simple app that helps you prank your friends.
Now, keep in mind this is the result of only a couple of hours of programming hacking, since I was only evaluating tropo design and api.
The app is still in their dev as I am just getting started and saw no need of moving it to production yet :)
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Basically you call this number and follow the directions.
It takes two phone numbers and calls them simultaneously like they were calling each other (Spoofing the caller id).
It sends them to a conference where you are waiting as well (muted, so they cannot hear you).
- The result? Two people awkwardly figuring out what the heck is going one while you laugh your arse off :P
You can help me 'test' it by calling any of these numbers:
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I have no idea how legal this is but I at least only have used it with closed relatives -hint hint-
Have fun and share your experiences :)
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The mail arrived :)
I got two DSTWO plus some memory cards and will be pimping the twins' Nintendo DSes. Adding realtime save, backups, cheat engine, emulators, music n vid player and more :)
Photobooth for fundraiser at MSD
Photobooth is still work in progress,but I thought this was worth posting in case someone ever needs to make a quick controller.
Basically, I took an old xbox controller (actually it was an xbox dance pad) cut the plug off and hackishly soldered a USB plug to it.
(Pretty much color to color ignoring an extra yellow cable used by xbox to feed the rumblers)
I Put the stripped board inside a project enclosure from Radioshack (~ 7 US Dollars)
Soldered connectors to where the pad "buttons" would have been and connected them to some arcade buttons I had left over from another project.
Linux already includes the driver for xbox joysticks, so all there was left was to test the device.
Using 'hexdump /dev/input/js0' I was able to verify it was working fine :D
Damn I suck at soldering!
Green = Start , Blue = Select between B&W, Sepia, Color
