After the iSight Tripod Adapter project I’m tempted to try making something like these to see how good they might sound. I’m sure that a visit to Parts Express and a decent amp could get me started… It’d be nifty to make some nice sounding speakers, too.
Tonight’s shiny happy lesson?
Denatured alcohol is not the same as isopropyl alcohol.
This because readily apparent when the $6 can of denatured alcohol that I just purchased failed to remove the label adhesive from some PVC pipe, yet the isopropyl did the job in seconds.
Doh.
Well, now that the wheat berry ale is bottled, I’m starting to think about making another beer. I probably shouldn’t, as I have six cases of beer actively aging. That said, I’m really wanting to make something else… I’m thinking a stout or vanilla porter. Hrm.
So, I think tonight I’ll bottle the wheat berry ale. The bottles are at home soaking in Oxyclean (they are clean already, I’m just being certain there’s nothing left on them), the carboy has been moved to the kitchen counter, and I’m pretty certain I know how much priming sugar I’ll need (166g).
Now to wrap up the day at work…
Well, I just sent off payment for 40 15′ long Firewire cables. On the way home from the dentist’s office tonight (I’m going by there to do some computer work) I’ll grab some more PVC pipe, some endcaps, some tee nuts, some paint, and get started on things. Hopefully within two weeks I’ll actually have them ready for sale…
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So I’ve been thinking of manufacturing about 40 of those iSight tripod adapters and selling them. I’m thinking of making them a bit shorter than the one I have (there’s a lot of air space in there) and painting them black or so.
Price would be US$35 shipped within the US, slightly more to elsewhere.
I’m curious, do you all think this is a good idea? And, would you be interested in buying one?
Here is a shot of the device itself, similar to what would be for sale. Except the ones I sell will likely be painted black.
Right now I’m trying to get prices on Firewire cables, but I’m thinking I’d end up with 15′ cables, leaving about 14.5′ hanging out of the adapter. The extra length is there so that it’s possible to have the iSight mounted on the tripod, and the computer a goodly ways away.
So, interested? Your thoughts?
Wow, so The Environmental Quality Company in Wayne, MI is currently exploding. Damn.
UPDATE: …and here’s what they do: http://www.eqonline.com/services/audit-mdiwdi/facility_overview.pdf
UPDATE 2: I’ll add photo links here:
· http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/v/random_stuff/eqc_explosion_2.png.html
UPDATE 3: All photos moved to here (photo gallery retired).
UPDATE 4: Okay, so it seems that this was actually EQ’s company EQ Resource Recovery, Inc.. All the photos have been moved to here, a more appropriately named site.
Well, I did it. I went ahead and moved my personal photo gallery to Gallery 2.
It’s quite a bit different, but I’m really liking it… The only issues I’m having are related to uploading photos to my moblog. In the old version of gallery, newly uploaded images were, by default, placed first in the album and set as the album thumbnail. This wouldn’t normally be the expected behavior, but it works out well for a moblog. In G2 images uploaded using the Nokia Image Upload API Module are dropped into the gallery and sorted per the gallery’s rules. Thusly, I had to change the gallery to sort based on ‘origination date’ so that newer photos are first, and I’ll have to go in and manually specify the new highlight photo each time I edit the captions. This really isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds.
I have also left all the photos in place under http://www.nuxx.net/albums for the time being. While not directly browsable, these are still the images that I have linked to in LJ, are indexed via Google Images, and appear all over the rest of the internet. Due to how imaged are sorted on the filesystem level in G2, I can’t make a simple mapping to them any longer. This isn’t a big deal either. I’ll just delete the old image location a bit later.
Speaking of linking directly to images in a manner like I did above, the URL to that image happens to be https://nuxx.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Image_632_.jpg. This could prove to be a problem if that temporary image expires, because the proper link to the original file is actually http://www.nuxx.net/g2data/albums/moblog/Image_632_.jpg. I’m going to have to find a proper way to link to the actual file itself, else I could run into trouble if the resized ones expire. That said, I think that the first URL I mentioned in this paragraph is actually redirected to the proper file by G2 itself, so maybe these links will hang around for a while. I’ll have to look and see.
One last thing, old-style requests to albums such as http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/moblog are automatically rewritten to the new format URLs using mod_rewrite. Go ahead, try it… Click this link and see where it takes you: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/moblog
Well, now that that’s all done, I think it’s time for me to head home and eat a nice bowl of chili from the pot I made up yesterday. Another late day sitting here, but at least I got stuff done and learned something.
Bye for now. :)
Well, there we go. After letting the Lazychili simmer for an hour, it is ready. Now it’s time to go eat the chili with a glass of summertime beer while sitting in front of the TV/TiVo and waching the second episode of FX’s Over There.
