Noisy whistle from the back This is a brand new 9.7″ Android tablet purchased via our local New Zealand on-line auction site, Trademe for about NZ$160. 9.7inch Allwinner A20 Dual core \1.5 Ghz, 1GB DDR3, 8GB NANDandroid 4.2 IPS From first power-on it made quite a loud high pitch whistling […]
Content Management System – CMS WordPress is a CMS, basically a group of PHP and other files running on web server and using a MySQL database. WordPress is apparently the most popular blogging system, used for small simple private web sites through to large complex corporate sites. PHP is a […]
The plan was to swap the back two toggle switches to move the spring loaded switch to the left. This must swap the switch function as well. The two top switches on each side are mounted on a small circuit board on each side with 4 wires connecting, +5 and […]
In testing This is the next step from the original 6-channel LED flasher-controller. More details. It is able to drive 1 watt and 3 watt LEDs directly without additional resistors and from a 3-6 cell Lipo or 12-30V DC supply. It uses a UBEC mounted on the back to provide […]
Hobbyking 5.8GHz 200mW FPV system The “Boscam 5.8Ghz 200mw FPV Wireless AV Tx & Rx Set” from Hobbyking is a great low cost system but is not compliant with the 5.8GHz ISM band here in New Zealand. The 8 channel frequencies listed by Hobbyking are 5705 5865 5665 5645 5885 […]
I have been thinking about small scale solar and wind power generation for some time, with a thought to reducing grid power consumption on a per home basis. Until recently solar panels and electronics required have been too complex and expensive. Now we are seeing lower cost solar panels and […]
What is the story with this electronics recycling. Is there any value in the recycled materials? Is someone clipping the ticket at both ends? ie. you pay to have it recycled and they get paid for the materials? I see that the NZ Government is considering another tax on electronics […]
Quad Core 1.6GHz ARM RK3188 A nice board, supplied with Android and the Linaro Linux distro installed. I chose this board because I wanted good performance, low power and LInux. I got a couple from SeeedStudio. Out of the box it boots Android. One of the apps is a boot […]