Bacon Jam

August 31st, 2011 no comment
bacon3

I actually made this quite a while ago, shamelessly stolen from Not Quite Nigella Ingredients Let’s see if I can remember what I used: 20 rashers of bacon (Smoked) 1 onion, finely chopped About half a bulb of garlic, minced A good heaped tablespoon of brown sugar (some might call this 2 spoons) Some Chilula [...]

Windows Server 2008, on Xen 4, on Debian 6

May 21st, 2011 4 comments
Putty Tunnel

There’s not a lot of information on the net about this particular configuration so I thought I’d put a post together that gathers what information there is, what worked for me and what didn’t.

Black Screen of SNES

September 18th, 2010 no comment
Cartridge with dirty contacts

I have a load of old consoles lying around, including a SNES with a pile of games I picked up cheaply after the N64 released. While all the games worked perfectly 15 years ago, trying them again now, some would do nothing other than display a black screen when the console was powered up.

Manual Headlight Level Adjuster for the RX8

July 19th, 2010 8 comments
Potentiometer

Manually adjust your HID headlights on the go.

Got an RX8? Replace your coils!

July 7th, 2010 no comment
rx8-badcoil

Really! Your rotary mechanical marvel may be dying

Using Shift Registers to expand your output

July 7th, 2010 no comment
MC74HC595 Logic

Shift registers are fantastically useful little chips to use when you need a few more I/O pins than your microcontroller offers you. They essentially allow you to turn 3 output pins into 8!