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No more poking keys

DSCF3664For a while I have been toying with the idea of replacing my keychain, I have always care about what I carry in my pokets, I stride for small and convenient. So I started to investigate solutions for those pesky poking keys, and found out a Swiss army knife style solution.

These are prototypes made by hand, I have few debuggers in line ( Hey Liz! ). If they probe popular I may start making them more often.

What you reckon, Do you like? would you pay for something like this? how much?

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Buried tomato sauce

imageBack in my chilhood, when everything was good, one of the first really good memories about food, I remembered that my dad and mom make me taste something that stuck with me all these years.

It started by digging a hole in the ground, like finding a treasure,  and carefully opening a bottle. It was the taste of sunshine, hinted with garlic, and bay leaves, transmuted into gold maybe?

A tradition that it is lost, that I am trying to revive.

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The Searzall is here

DSCF3647_lznMy handheld broiler is here, we will see how it goes, there are opposing opinions in the internet regarding its effectiveness, we will see in which side Juan(no pun intended) ends.

It definitely looks like a funky microphone, I went trough the setup and seasoning process, it is quite easy to setup, we will see how long the screens last.

http://www.bookeranddax.com/searzall

Things I plan to test it with it:

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The first post…

Welcome to my blog, as a short description I can say this blog is to log my electronic projects, cooking recipes and any other life hacking I do.

Mostly I am interested in documenting things so they do not get lost on the ether and randomness of my life

So, what best exercise than to log in this post all the sites tunings and mods I will be using in this site.  Updates in the read more section will be added as they required

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