I just moved out to Nashville a couple months ago to start my new job, and the only bad thing about it so far (besides not being able to surf after work like I did almost every day in Charleston) is my bathroom. It’s an odd shape, and the switch for the fan is on …
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mencoder
I have been trying to convert .MKV files to .AVI for a long time! Today I finally found a way to do it (for free, as per usual) in Linux. (I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.) mencoder test.mkv -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:threads=8:vbitrate=3000 -oac copy -o test.avi Sometimes the -oac copy needs to be …
GStreamer
OK this is mostly a note for myself because I’ve come across this problem many times. In Linux (Ubuntu) to rip music using Rhythmbox, a “GStreamer Pipeline” must be provided. I rip at 320 kb/s because I can, and the pipeline for that is audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc vbr=0 bitrate=320 ! id3v2mux It took me …
’96 Jeep Cherokee Starter Motor
So my neighbor calls Monday night from the BB&T parking lot. Maggie (the Jeep) won’t start! My truck’s radiator is in the living room so I put a bunch of tools in Sue and we drove off to try and get the Jeep fixed. All the electrical equipment in the Jeep was working, but I …
The Truck’s New Timing Belt
I will be doing this project in parts because it’s fairly labor-intensive and should take a couple of days. Turns out my truck has a timing belt in it, and not a timing chain like the guy who sold it to me told me it had. Any way, the Nissan dealer wanted $759.95 to change …
Turing-Complete Slow Cooker
The idea on this one is to put my new slow cooker on the internet, so if I can’t make it home in time to turn it off and have a delicious dinner, I can log in to my apartment over an SSH tunnel and turn off my slow cooker from anywhere in the world. …
Fun Tidbits!
No project here, just some fun things I have been thinking about. The first one comes from Georgia Tech Craig, who sent me this website: Only at Tech Reminds me of a lot of things that I do and kind of makes me want to be a student at Georgia Tech. Which happens a lot …
…Now We Can Do the Laundry
The laundry room in our apartment is supposed to use some overhead fluorescent lights, but they are the long tube style and rather than go out and buy some more (our landlord is horrible, it’s APM if anyone is thinking of living in Tillman Place in Clemson) I decided to wire up a standard light …
Overkill on the Kitchen Light Switch!
WHILE the idea of this project and what it will accomplish may not seem like much, I think for me it was more of a challenge to see if I could implement it. After all, the whole basis of engineering is making life easier for everyone else, and I suppose even if this project will …
The Robot
I’ve been in school since August, which leaves little time for building fun side projects like I do when I’m not in school. What I have been building has related to our first senior design project, where we were asked to build a robot that could “perform” laproscopic surgery. You can read about that here. …