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Jump rope hacking with zip ties

by ao2, March 15, 2014
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If you have a jump rope with ball bearing handles you can use zip ties to hack them into one of those fancy “speed ropes”.

And yes, I am kind of into jumping rope these days.

jump rope original
jump rope internals
jump rope zip tie
jump rope hack proof of concept
jump rope hacked
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The chaos of English pronunciation

by ao2, December 12, 2013
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Interesting text about English pronunciation: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité.

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AKOP updates: Debian and Linux

by ao2, December 7, 2013
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A due update to my AKOP “work”: a Debian and a Linux versions could not be avoided.

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Altoids: Exercises in Style

by ao2, October 23, 2013
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After my cool non-sense story about Android 5 I wanted to get back again to the Altoids theme and expand a bit on it.

Android Blue Knock-Off
Android Green Knock-Off
Android Red Knock-Off
Antonio Red Knock-Off
Arduino Knock-Off
Debian Knock-Off
Drupal Knock-Off
Ladyada Knock-Off
Linux Knock-Off
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Misc links: August 2013

by ao2, August 24, 2013
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Some interesting and inspiring things I stumbled upon this month:

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libam7xxx-0.1.4 released

by ao2, July 28, 2013
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Release 0.1.4 of libam7xxx is out, bringing a very nice performance improvement.

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Acer C110 pico projector with BeagleBone Black

by ao2, July 15, 2013
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I was having a hard time getting the Acer C110 USB pico projector work when connected to the BeagleBone Black, it wasn't showing up on the USB bus at all, no sign of it in the kernel messages and consequently no sign of it in lsusb.

Projecting the Ångström login screen
Cable setup 1
Cable setup 2
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Tweeper: a Twitter to RSS web scraper

by ao2, July 7, 2013
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Tweeper is a web scraper which extracts the most recent public tweets of a given user from their home page on Twitter.com and formats them in RSS, so the information can be conveniently accessed and collected by a feed reader.

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