I spent over an hour in waiting for a rep and between scripted answers. UPS feel free to take this as a service example of how to not do things when a customer is trying to make it right for you. This is a straight copy of the conversation (other than the tracking #): Status: Connected Chris P. (Listening) Initial Question: Can this package be routed to a new location, since it was out for delivery Read more…
Welcome to Halloween 2013! Time to Completion = 1 Hour Supplies – 12inch Round Hollow Half Styrofoam Ball (Craft Store ~$10) – 1 1/2 inch foam tubes (got in a Pack $4.99) – Blue Acrylic Paint ($1.99) – 2 Toothpicks (FREE from any restaurant) – 2 or 3 sheets of Blue Posterboard ($1.10/sheet) – Tape (Blue painters tape/scotch tape/whatever you have) – Blue 550 Paracord ($1.99) – Some Screwdriver or knife to poke holes (who Read more…
LEDgoes are a Modular LED Display system that my husband and I developed. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/558452768/ledgoes We Designed the Hardwre, firmware, and all software. It is also 100% Open Source! Follow @DoesitPew
Downloads Linux Mint 13 / Ubuntu 12.04 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.12/virtualbox-4.2_4.2.12-84980~Ubuntu~quantal_amd64.deb Linux Mint 14 /Ubuntu 12.10 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.12/virtualbox-4.2_4.2.12-84980~Ubuntu~raring_amd64.deb Extention: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.12/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.12-84980.vbox-extpack VirtualBox Rules File http://goo.im/devs/childofthehorn/virtualbox/10-vboxdrv.rules Setting Up VBOX 1. Install both packages (just click on them or use dpkg) 2. Open a Terminal (insert your username in place of “username”) su – groupadd vboxusers usermod -G vboxusers -a username chmod 660 /dev/vboxdrv chgrp vboxusers /dev/vboxdrv 3. Open a Terminal from the /Udev Rules folder su -s cp -f 10-vboxdrv.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/ Read more…
Soo I bought a Logitech K810 Keyboard because I use a lot of different devices at my desk and I needed something equipped for travel. My main machines are Linux (usually a variant of Linux Mint). Well The blueZ stack for LM and Ubuntu LTS did NOT work with this keyboard (though 11 did…). Anyway, I was able to get this to work by following these steps: *must have bluez-hcidump installed* *Start the pairing proceedure Read more…
WOW, After a bunch of work, I present to you WORKING CLOCKWORKMOD! *Big thanks to those of you who worked on the d2att, that code was invaluable for getting a working graphics driver and some unknowns I could not see.* You can also use this to get ROOT! I built this on the SGH-497, but is might very well work because many of the ramdisk files for the recovery were written for the SGH-497 and Read more…
So some of you know that I kinda was in a bind this weekend, found my way out and with the help of some folks like kermione96 and utkanos. Remember that these are UNOFFICIAL and to be used for your own purposes! No guarantees. CC, Apache, etc… ClockworkMod Touch (All variants): http://goo.im/devs/childofthehorn/comanche/samsung_comanche_cwmtouch_childofthehorn.tar.md5 I also made some Recovery Images for Odin for the ATT Crowd: Root, Recovery, CWM (basic) ATT ONLY: (unzip with 7zip first) http://goo.im/devs/childofthehorn/comanche/Stock_Root_CWM_i547_cached_out.tar.md5.7z STOCK, no Root, Read more…
I had a bit of a kerfuffle doing fancy Notifications for Android that needed to look and work the same on Honeycomb (3.x) , ICS (4.0.X), and JellyBean (4.1 – 4.2) (API11-16) . This was because the Google Android developers page….is wrong-ish..The Function Example Below shows you how to access many of the Fancier (IO 2012) Notification Abilities and appearance and add them to your application for consistent notifications to the user of status in Read more…
This is a repost of Stephen Wylie’s post on Google Plus (my husband!) THIS IS THE NEWEST AND BEST WAY TO DO OAUTH AND INTEGRATE GOOGLE. I PROMISE! Here are a series of steps you can use in order to integrate an Android app with the Google Play Services, particularly for the sake of accessing a user’s Google Drive documents. See below for a link to some sample code that ties it all together. ======================================================= Step Read more…
A Simple Demo on how to Drag solder SMD chips onto a pcb board I show you step by step how to do it and even up close checkup on the microscope The chips shown are ATmega328’s and the iron used is a Metcal. Yes, I know that there is a board error, this is all about examples! Follow @DoesitPew