Posts Tagged ‘wireless’
Wireless doorbell extension
TL;DR A relay board from eBay combined with a cheap wireless doorbell from Amazon allowed me to extend my existing wired doorbell. Background I got the loft of my house converted into a home office. I love it up there, but if I shut the door (to keep noise out) then I can’t hear the […]
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Tags: bell, door, doorbell, relay, wired, wireless
Broken netbook media player
The screen on my wife’s Lenovo s10e gave up the ghost last week. I thought it might be just a loose connector and that I could fix it, and an initial attempt at strip down and rebuild seemed to work. Sadly my fix didn’t hold. I’ve been using my own s10e mostly to play videos […]
Filed under: making | 2 Comments
Tags: keyboard, Kogan, netbook, remote, trackpad, tv, wireless
I like to get familiar with new versions of Windows early in the cycle, so it was great to see the Developer Preview being made available ahead of a beta. First impressions The new Metro interface hits right between the eyes. I can’t say that I’m a fan yet. It seems well adapted to touch screens, but I’m […]
Filed under: review, technology | 4 Comments
Tags: desktop, KVM, Metro, Microserver, N40L, USB, wifi, Windows 8, wireless
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