Category Archives: The Dump.

Well… It’s a dump.

SUGRU — a short adulation

Posted on July 27, 2010 by robert

I had been waiting for my pack of SUGRU for quite a while. Fortunately they have successfully tackled the step towards mass production and it is now available through their website. For those of you who might now have heard … Continue reading →

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VUVUZELAs take over EEVBLOG — can they be stopped ?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by robert

First of all here’s a link to Dave Jone’s famous EEVBLOG. The live show is broadcast using ustream. Due to the glorious invention of “daylight saving” by a bunch of wackos, 8:00 AM Sydney time equals 00:00 CET. The show … Continue reading →

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I.K.E.A. — Ich Kriege Einen Anfall

Posted on May 2, 2010 by robert

Sorry for the German title, but it is a perfect fit. And this very sentence might even be regarded as a pun. Here the German sentence “Ich kriege einen Anfall” is equivalent to “I’m getting a fit of rage”. At … Continue reading →

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Seeing by not seeing

Posted on March 15, 2010 by robert

What fun reading can be. Get yourself a few good books, lots of tea, some chocolate and read! I must have read “Feet of Clay” by Terry Pratchett numerous times, but it seems I hadn’t payed this quote the necessary … Continue reading →

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Wasting Energy — Electricity utility business lives on “I’m off, really!”

Posted on March 6, 2010 by robert

Yesterday I got another shipment with electronics parts, which is almost better than Xmas. Among other things it contained a remarkably cheap energy meter. They’ve also got a link to a c’t-article about energy meters there. For readers of adafruit … Continue reading →

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