Aaron Parecki

#hacks

• This Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk Is Just Too Brilliant (www.popularmechanics.com)

  Fri, Feb 26, 2016 11:08am -08:00 #hardware #computers #hacks
• Discovering the Jawbone Up API (eric-blue.com)

  Sun, Dec 18, 2011 4:22pm -08:00 #api #hacks #jawbone #quantified-self #up
• Jawbone Up API (eric-blue.com)

  Sun, Dec 18, 2011 4:21pm -08:00 #api #hacks #jawbone #quantified-self #up
• Location-Based Hacks - How to Automate Your Life with SMS and GPS

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  June 23, 2011 2:00pm (-0700)

  Portland

  Open Source Bridge

  permalink #gps #geoloqi #hacks #home automation

• Tools for Co-Working Spaces

  I recently spent some time at Souk, a co-working space in Portland. It’s a great space with lots of room and lots of light, which is important when you’re going to spend hours on end somewhere. Over the course of a couple days, it became apparent that there are several tools that can help facilitate the coming and going of people in spaces like these.

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  Fri, Mar 11, 2011 12:24pm -07:00 #hacks #tropo
• Battery power for JeeNode (blog.hekkers.net)

  Mon, Feb 28, 2011 11:07am -08:00 #electronics #hacks #jeenode #microcontrollers #sensors
• JeeNode - send a few bytes from a sensor to a receiver (shop.moderndevice.com)

  Mon, Feb 28, 2011 10:30am -08:00 #electronics #hacks #home automation #microcontrollers #sensor #wireless
• PowerSwitch Tail - An isolated 5VDC actuated switch for controlling power to 120VAC devices with microcontrollers and other low-voltage circuits. (powerswitchtail.com)

  Mon, Feb 28, 2011 10:26am -08:00 #Arduino #electrical #hacks #home automation #microcontrollers #power

• Tracking typos of your domain name in Google Analytics

  Say you want to register a couple different typos of your domain name, and redirect everyone seamlessly to the correct site. This can be done quite easily in Apache using ServerAlias and a simple RewriteRule. I just registered geoloqui.com after noticing a couple articles linking to it instead of geoloqi.com. But then I thought, wouldn’t it be useful if I could track these typos and see which ones are most common? Turns out it’s not difficult!

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  Thu, Dec 9, 2010 12:23am -07:00 #hacks