Hardware

I am happy to announce that the ZigFlea board is currently available from Seedstudio. This board is the result of the Master’s thesis of Øyvind Hauback, whom I co-supervised at fourMs. The main point of the board is to provide an easy way of using ZigBee wireless communication together with Dan Overholt’s CUI32Stem sensor interface. ](/images/2012/09/P2171169.jpg) The ZigFlea wireless board, as sold from Seedstudio. The board is described in Øyvind’s thesis (in Norwegian), as well as in short form (and English) in our NIME 2012 paper....

What to do when a DVD is stuck in the drive on an old iMac, and it refuses to booth up? There are numerous ways of doing this, including: Start up while holding down the mouse button. Start up while holding down the Option key, then hit the eject button. Start up while holding down Command-Option-O-F, to enter the Open Firmware prompt, then type “eject cd”. Start up while holding down Command-S to enter recovery mode....