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Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.

Honda Music Link

December 10, 2006

The Honda Music Link communicates with an iPod at 9600 / N-8-1, and I can successfully sniff it.

Eg: 000043 17:16:12.750 FF 55 04 04 00 29 04 CB FF 55 04 04 00 29 01 CE

This can be looked up here: http://ipodlinux.org/Apple_Accessory_Protocol

UPDATE: As an exercise to myself, this is as follows:

FF 55 – Header
04 – Length of Command
04 – Mode 4 / AiR Mode
00 29 – AiR Playback Control
04 – Skip– Command
CB – Checksum calculated as: 0x100 – (FF + 04 + 04 + 00 + 29 + 04)

FF 55 – Header
04 – Length of Command
04 – Mode 4 / AiR Mode
00 29 – AiR Playback Control
01 – Toggle Play / Pause
CE – Checksum

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.1μF

December 10, 2006

How can a place called Radio Shack not even have .1μF polarized caps?

I need five to build this MAX232 circuit because the level shifters from Spark Fun don’t work for some reason.

Bah. This is absurd.

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Cookies and Car

December 9, 2006

· Windshield wiper blades changed. (Pain in the ass.)
· Air filter changed. (Easy.)
· Tires at 32psi after cold weather. (Will likely have to redo with arrival sub-zero temps.)
· Chocolate chip cookies baking.
· Packages sent off to Australia and Scotland.

Now, to balance my checkbook.

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NYT

December 6, 2006

Hmm, someone writing an article on vehicular iPod integration for the New York Times just emailed me with some questions about the Honda Music Link. My answers may have been a bit much, but I hope he got what he is looking for.

The name the person who wrote is Jim Motavalli and he appears to be a fairly frequent writer of enviromental-type stories, with many contributions to the NYT. It’ll be interesting to see what the final story is like.

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Wow. Snow.

December 4, 2006


Woah, snow!

I sure didn’t expect to find that when I looked outside after walking upstairs. Looks like this area has received it’s first substantial snowfall. Yes, there was the weird squall a month or so ago, but that melted within an hour.

Actually, looking further, the all of this area is forecasted to get a good bit of snow.

I think tonight, after I’m done with some electronics work, will involve a bunch of hot Thai curry and a nice beer for dinner.

Oh, on a side note, would any of you be interested in buying my USB oscilloscope? It seems that I don’t need it. I want US$150 for it, shipped to anywhere in the world, via First Class mail (aka Airmail). Photos of it can be seen here (photo gallery retired).

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ALDI

December 2, 2006

Huh.

ALDI’s brand of Raisin Bran is just as good as any other I’ve had, and at $1-something for a 16oz box.

Also, the $2-something frozen gourmet-ish pizzas from there are good.

Thus far I’m pretty impressed with the store.

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rowla.nuxx.net

December 1, 2006

Server is back up. In short, I was using so much bandwidth that Waveform flipped my link back to 10Mb in an effort to cap bandwidth, then when that remained wholly saturated (nice to know that the to-internet link can saturate that, eh?) they turned off the port.

See here for a graph of it all: https://secure.nuxx.net/bandwidthd

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Digital ICE

November 25, 2006

Digital ICE on the Nikon Coolscan V ED works rather well.

For example, here is a single frame scanned both without and with Digital ICE, set to remove dust and scratches. The negative wasn’t removed from the scanner between scans, the option was simply turned on and the frame re-scanned:

· Without ICE. Note the dust on the mountain, and small scratches on the house at the right side of the frame.
· With ICE. Aforementioned dust and scratches (and other bits) are just simply gone.

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