Outdoor Technologist

iMovie Time lapse

PLEASE NOTE (UPDATE FEB 2/2015) – I’M EDITING THIS PAGE AS I LEARN THE iMOVIE SW Mac’s are easy, eh? I wanted to import a bunch of snow photos into something to make a time lapse movie and the google gnomes suggested iMovie – so I went to our Mac – macstake? It appears…

GoPro Hero – Shot a minute

No this isn’t the Century Club, it is Photo a minute! It is snowing here in Arlington, VA and I was out walking the pup when my friends called out from their window to say ‘hey!’. I looked up and they mentioned that I’d be on their GoPro Time Lapse… this got me thinking. When…

Windows 7 is it 2^5 or 2^6 using a command line

When I get errors on a machine I’m working on I often want to know if it is a 32 or 64 bit machine so I can ensure I can install the proper SW. I could do this by going to Control Panel\System and Security\System in an explorer window, but I’m a command line guy…

Changing Drive Letters for continuity in Crashplan Backups

Sometimes my USB HDD letter changes and this causes me backup headaches with Crashplan. I haven’t taken time to look at the root cause of the issue, but I have found the work around for this and this is it! Open a cmd window Type: diskmgmt.msc right click on the drive you want to modify…

View a specific date range in Mint

I always want to view specific dates on Mint.com, and not Mint doesn’t allow this from a web selection, but it does allow it when you modify the URL. For instance if I want to see expenditures for a specific date range, say 11/15/2015 to 11/30/2015, I can put this in the address bar: https://wwws.mint.com/transaction.event?startDate=11/15/2015&endDate=11/30/2015…

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Open x – a bit more

FYI – I’m approaching this from a hardware designer’s point of view. Rev0 (first pass of HW) is often tricky, even if we’re putting together known schematic blocks from other designs. Sometimes we learn tricky power supply issues, other times we learn that JTAG/ETM or full speed memory writes won’t work because of signal reflections….

Open x, (x = ProtoHardware, Hardware, Product, Module, Block, y)

This year I decided to attend the Open Hardware Summit in NYC to survey the land and get an understanding of the community. Since I was busy and didn’t know anyone in the OHW community I didn’t do any prep and simply started asking questions as I met people. I learned that people want Open…