I recently replaced my Blackberry Curve with a Verizon Incredible. I soon found that the battery life was the only thing that wasn’t incredible about the phone. Owning a smart phone like the Incredible, Droid X, Apple iPhone or even a Windows Mobile is a paradox; because the more you use the phone the quicker the battery drains. Newer smart phones make the phone more useable than ever before, which means after a few hours the phone is dead.
Category Archives: Homebrew
Cisco Console Cable Wiring
Recently I needed to connect to a Cisco router and didn’t have a serial cable on hand. The Cisco routers just like their switches come supplied with a console port built in. This console port is usually a female RJ-45 in the back of the unit and is labeled console. A lot of other manufacturers also use this method to connect to their equipment; everything from Sun servers to appliance servers.
Bascom-AVR and the Atmel ATtiny2313
Back in April I attended the Notacon the hacker-art convention up in Cleveland Ohio. The hardware hacking room had a number of little project kits they were giving out to teach people how to solder. These project kits included the chips, resistors, LEDs, serial connector and everything except the solder. They ran labs and the last day they just wanted to get rid of these project kits. So I grabbed a couple that caught my eye. One kit had an Atmel AVR programmable chip, eight LEDs and sported a 9-pin serial connector. The kit is the Mini-POV3 sold by http://www.adafruit.com/ for $17.50, it’s all you need to get started with programmable chips!