I think I’m beginning to find the bugs in WordPress. Maybe not bugs, but undesirable side effects of being plug-in based and very versatile. I guess it’s impossible for every plug-in creator to know what all the others are doing. It may be possible to choose a set of plug-ins […]
The other day I was deleting some old bookmarks from Firefox and wondered why my site link had a little empty box rather than a fancy little icon. A bit of research explained that this icon was a favicon. So I used Gimp to make a little 16×16 graphic then […]
68HC11 and 68HC05 During the later 1980s I started using the Motorola MC68HC11E9 single chip micro. Problem back then was that you couldn’t get Flash memory, so the single chip micros were one time programmable (OTP). That was a real pain because the OTP chips cost about $40 each and […]
I had a cheap IP camera running to check out the weather from the TV (computer). It’s getting a bit unreliable and the picture is now crap. So I decided to revamp with either a cheap 4 channel DVR from China for about $100 or a re-purposed older PC and […]
Down the Western side of the Hutt River from Moonshine to Avalon Park and back up the Eastern side through Trentham Memorial Park. [map maptype=satellite kml=”http://rcbeacon.com/blog/ftp-shared/upload/Track-011712-42219.kml”]
A while ago I commented on my first Flytron SimpleOSD that I managed to damage by connecting the current sensor incorrectly. I have taken the Atmega328 micro off the board, fitted a new one and swapped the crystal to a 3-pin 16MHz ceramic resonator. I’m not a Atmel fan so […]
Video Distortion and Quality Using a San-Disk V-Mate to record video transmitted from a model plane I have long had a problem with tearing down the left side of the recorded video. It’s not seen on the monitor connected to the same video receiver. Finally I investigated and fond that […]
I needed a motherboard manual to sort out some USB headers. So rather than searching through all my files I went to Google on the laptop which took me straight to the product page on the Asus web site. To download anything Asus wanted to know what OS, so I […]