Monthly Archives: June 2014

Make a ball with a Circular Saw

I had to look this over several times before I got how it works.  Neat trick on the jig used to turn a cylinder into a cicle with the saw.  http://www.core77.com/blog/tools/more_power_tool_hacks_creating_a_wooden_sphere_with_a_circular_saw_25701.asp

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Need to test a UI, maybe you need a Cucumber

If I understand Cucumber correctly, you can write your behavior of how the software should work in doc like format, and it will convert it to a UI like test.  Or an API test.  Its all written in Ruby.  I … Continue reading

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Make your own lathe from a drill

At first I thought, ugh…but after watching the video, I am pretty impressed.  Not so sure I would use a dead stationary center on the end, maybe another drill chuck or something.  Anyways interesting build. http://lifehacker.com/transform-a-power-drill-into-a-miniature-wood-lathe-1593744668?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

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Intro to SHODAN

Nice intro article into Shodan, the google for finding systems on the internet to hack into. http://www.darknet.org.uk/2014/06/shodan-internet-computer-search-engine/

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Now you can build your own NSA spy tools

Apparently some folks have been going over the Snowden papers and reverse engineering some of the NSA spy tools to build their own variants of them.  I wonder if they could sell it to the NSA at a discount? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229744.000-hackers-reverseengineer-nsas-leaked-bugging-devices.html#.U6mlVnVDtu7

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Multitasking on a TI MSP

I haven’t been playing with TI’s 430MSP’s lately anymore (lack of time), but they are a nice cheaper than arduino system.  The author came up with a nice setup to get multitasking working on the board to handle more than … Continue reading

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Google has an import tool for AWS S3

Just became a little easier to move away from Amazon AWS.  Google now has an import tool to migrate data from AWS/S3 storage to Google.  Now if they only could do this with running instances in AWS…. http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/googles-new-cloud-import-tool-makes-switching-from-aws-easier/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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CISCO opensources an encryption cipher

Interesting that they opensourced a proprietary cipher they came up with.  Not a bad idea to get it adopted and used.  Also for other folks to look at it and see if there are any holes that would need to … Continue reading

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Rebuilding My CNC, CAM HELL

OK I am so missing my buddy that had a copy of Meshcam.  I partially figured our PyCAM, nice tool but very confusing.  I did a sample to gCode convert and it TOOK 8 HOURS TO BUILD!!!  Ouch…So back to … Continue reading

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Nice video from Google Sketchup to 3D Print

I like the video, good intro on how to do this. http://hackedgadgets.com/2014/06/22/google-3d-sketchup-to-3d-printer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HackedGadgets+%28Hacked+Gadgets%29

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