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As I have been constructing this Pinewood Derby Timer, I needed some sort of box or enclosure to make the top of the arch. So I took apart a junk piece of equipment and cut out holes for the LED displays to …
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So one of the driving components (pun intended) of the derby timer is the LED displays. I went with the smaller ones from Adafruit, as we wouldn't need a second power supply if we go this route, and I'd like to keep …
A local church group that I attend needed some help with an Awana project. They use a pinewood derby track for racing cars, and they needed a timer built for it. I don't attend the Awana club usually, and I was not present for the races last time they held …
Somewhat of a break from the norm, but today the dryer quit drying. The clothes stayed damp, and there was no heat inside the dryer when you opened the door.
At first, I disassembled the dryer, expecting to find a problem with with the controls or main electronic boards. However …
Well, we haven't seen an Apple product on this website in a long time. I think the last time I wrote about an Apple product, I was trying to emulate a Mac so I could use the IDE to emulate an iPhone, so I could convert an Android app into …
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At some point, everything will fail. And for my LG watch Urbane, fail it did. It wasn't epic. Rather it was quiet. One morning, after it sat in the charger all night, it didn't power on. No matter how hard I tried …
Back in July, I decided to go Google App-less, or gappless. Cold turkey. No baby steps, just quit using Google Apps on my phone. Of course, this is possible only with custom ROMs, and then I don't install the Google Apps packages into those ROMs. I don't want to belabor …
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Okay, so I've been playing around some more with the SODP material and AOSP 10. That's right, they decided to stop naming Android versions after deserts and just give them numbers. Seems lame to me, but, oh well.
Either way, I did a …
One of the prevailing issues with the SODP build of AOSP was that every time I hooked up my phone to the computer to transfer files, it would cause the phone to crash and reboot. Obviously that is not very productive. I was a bit stumped and decided to join …
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As you know, I've gone Google App-less, or "gappless". But, for better or worse, not all of my ROM users have done the same. Typically, when you build a custom ROM, you build it without things like ROOT or GAPPS, and leave it to …