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	<title>Outguessing the machine</title>
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		<title>Solved: Can&#8217;t connect to high (&gt;10) Windows COM ports / cleaning out unused COM ports</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem: Windows, and many Windows apps that use serial (COM) ports, have various problems accessing &#8220;high&#8221; numbered COM ports. I cannot find an authoritative or quantatative definition of &#8220;high&#8221; (and it may depend on your app), but I have seen apps start failing after COM8, COM9, COM15&#8230; anything in the 20s is asking for trouble. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solved: SL4A force close when calling recognizeSpeech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 03:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem: SL4A crashes upon the first call to recognizeSpeech() : com.googlecode.android_scripting stopped unexpectedly (Force Close). The corresponding Android log via adb shell #logcat: D/AndroidRuntime( 2785): Shutting down VM W/dalvikvm( 2785): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0&#215;4 0018560) I/ActivityManager( 1429): Starting: Intent { act=android.speech.action.RECOGNIZE _SPEECH } from pid 2785 E/AndroidRuntime( 2785): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime( [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer-controlled RGB LED Buckyball</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=843</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone and his brother has built LED cubes before, and while they are unmitigatedly awesome, I wanted to try something a little different. As far as I can tell, nobody has made an LED buckyball before! And of course, the requirements for such a large, sparse shape are a little different. In a typical LED [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing an Acer AL2216W LCD Monitor (Delta DAC-19M010 power supply, bad caps)</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=839</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several dozen of this model of monitor at my work since last year or so; the other day I found one on top of the dead electronics plunder pile recycling bin, looking brand new. Googling the model # and terms such as &#8220;problems&#8221; or &#8220;repair&#8221; or &#8220;won&#8217;t turn on&#8221; revealed pages of discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slam Stick: dissected!</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=834</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woot! It sounds like a gadget I designed will be featured in next month&#8217;s EDN magazine (Prying Eyes column). This must be some kind of ironic career turning point: I landed a job by reverse-engineering other peoples&#8217; stuff; now people reverse-engineer my stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>UVLO, Comparators with hysteresis (now with 20% more equations!)</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=826</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mosquino board is intended to operate from very low-power sources, such as RF, vibration energy harvesting and small thermal gradients (e.g. body heat). Although the ATMega and the rest of the circuit can be put to sleep at < &#60;1uA once they have reached legal operating voltage, many semiconductor circuits fail this test with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Dead</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=819</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really! Just busy with some real-life stuff, namely wedding related and home renovations. I haven&#8217;t forgotten about this pick &#038; place stuff! Lately I&#8217;ve been spending most of my project time on getting Mosquino toward an official 1.0 release. The rev2 boards just came in, so once all the parts are in I should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use your own modem with Comcast</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=815</link>
		<comments>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=815#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Typical frog in a hot pot scenario; when I joined Comcast the modem lease was like $1.50 a month, and I didn&#8217;t even think about it. As of recently it&#8217;s now crept up to $7.00 a month, which kind of made me sit up in shock. How much do those things actually cost, anyway? Answer: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motorized SMT tape-and-reel feeder for DIY pick &amp; place</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=803</link>
		<comments>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=803#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the impact of work, wedding planning and Super Metroid fan-hacks (not necessarily in that order ;-) on my freetime, my scheme to design a DIY-able open pick &#038; place system is starting to come along. So far, there is a proper vacuum placement head, a rough idea of what the software architecture might look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tape Sprocket Creator</title>
		<link>http://tim.cexx.org/?p=798</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a free (open source) Python script for creating feeder sprockets for e.g. perforated tape or film advance. I wrote it for myself to generate SMD tape-and-reel feed sprockets, but it might also be useful for making replacement sprockets for 8/16/35mm film, microfilm and paper-tape systems whose original reader hardware no longer exists or [...]]]></description>
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