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Halibut with mushroom and chives pasta

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I was inspired by the fish market in Bergen, I found some good ingredients in the hostel for free, plus I had some nuts leftover that I was carrying since Dublin. My friend Melisa bought them for me and insisted I take some unsalted nuts for the squirrels in London, apparently there is no other place than Dublin to find unsalted nuts (sigh…), so this recipe is dedicated to her :-).

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The PID Toolboxduino

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I’ve been working in a very involved projects lately, that it is why my blog have been suffering the lacks of posts. The idea is to have a PID controller in box, with different type of sensors and outputs to mainly control temperature, such as for sous vide in a rice cooker or croc pot, a smoker, a chocolate melting tank, anything that involves a precise temperature and electrical appliances.

The code and more tech details are at https://github.com/jarossi/pidtoolboxduino

Code is still messy but works, and it is bug free enough for me to post the project.

It features the following:

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Bone conduction headphones repair, enter the tic tac amp

imageI got given a pair of AfterShokz bone conduction headphones for repair, apparently the buttons did not work.

Prying open the case was a nightmare, no screws, and I end up not knowing what happen to them in the end, I may have killed them during the process, they won’t power up despite there was charge in the battery.

So with all lost, I decided to just change it all.  And since I spent so much in the repair (time and in spare parts) I got to keep them.

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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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