Looking down

Since I have the tablet I spend extra couple of minutes in bed every morning reading what's new. Since the tablet is hard to hold with one hand (when buying new tablet make sure it has wide edges) I balance it on my chest. Then I have to bend my neck to see it which is not comfortable.
Anyway... I thought prism glasses would be a good idea. They make you see down when looking horizontally. I got the first one that popped in Amazon search. I'm disappointed. Fist of all I somehow got women version. They don't fit nicely on my nose and the field of focus is really small. Couple of my friends tried them and had the same fillings. But there were some that saw through just fine. ...I'll try to sell the glasses to them.

PCBye

I'm retiring my PCB making equipment after 15 years. Services which are affordable to hobbyists are now available (specially in China). I made PCBs with photographic method with mini drill, UV exposure box and inkjet printer on first photo. Second photo shows some of my designs.

Inside cheap headphones (Disassembly)

Left channel went mute when moving the cord near the headphones. I shortened the cord for 20cm.

Respect BOBO

Peter René Cipiriano Baumann (born January 5, 1968), better known as DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 10 studio album... (from wiki).

Keychain remote control (Past Projects)

Small universal remote control I did. Features white illumination LED, blue status LED, IR LED and RF module. It had different states for various TV sets (and other devices). I never utilized the RF transmitter. The microcontroller is AT90S2313 from Atmel.

20 Four 7

Not fast enough 4 you? Try Nick Skitz Remix.

ARCHOS 101 G9 Turbo

I have it for 14 days now. It's like I read in other reviews:

• cheap housing - but good enough, 
• has problems with touch in bottom left corner - not a show stopper,
• without back camera - not a con; why do you need back camera on tablet anyway,
• GPS problem - without network locks after reboot (boots faster than my HTC Desire HD),
• impressive movies performance

[update] Touch is really bad and edges should be wider.

I wanted a cheap tablet for my first tablet to see whether such a device fits in my lifestyle. I decided to go with the best cheap variant available to me at the time - 10" screen, dual core & ICS for 250EUR on Amazon (but I got a bit cheaper :) ). I got the 8GB variant and now that I have installed more apps than I need there is still half of space left. I could still expand it with uSD card but hopefully I won't need to. I don't intend to use it for movies, musics, pictures and eBooks - straight forward network media is what I desire.
It also seems that it is based on totally same hardware as non Turbo device - there is sticker that says "Turbo" on the bottom edge which I immediately pealed off (and put it back to take pictures and then pealed it off again - I hate stickers).


I don't know any better so I'm satisfied with it and I actually use it every day. It is more than fine for RSS reading (still deciding: Reader HD or gReader app), YouTube, maps, emails and Skype (or Google hangouts). With conservative usage it went for more than 4 days (see image below - there was unfinished charge after 4 days).

Let's trance

Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka - Angel (Ladadi O-Heyo)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_%26_Spoon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plavka