Spackled and sanded like crazy yesterday and today I put on the first coat of paint on the stands. Looks kind of ugly but the first coat always does.
Author: Fredrik Rambris
CPU fan mounted in my Amiga 1200
I ordered a vented trapdoor from Shapeways and cut it up to fit a 40mm fan to cool my 68060. That was a rather bad fit and I contacted its designer Steve and asked him if he could modify it to hold a fan. After a few hours he had made a new version which I ordered. It didn’t quite fit and I carefully measured everything and Steve corrected the model and uploaded it. I ordered it and got it today and it fits perfectly. You need thicker feet to make room for the fan underneath. If you want one too you can order the A1200 cover here on Shapeways. Thanks a bunch Steve!
Speaker stands mostly glued up
I glued the “tubes” and “flanges” yesterday. Today I glued (and screwed. everything is screwed) the feet to the lower flanges. The top will not be glued, only screwed for now. If it is not heavy enough I will add some sand to the tubes. If the top is not level I might fix that with shims.
Made a lot of holes
Pre drilled a bunch of screw holes. I routed the holes in the center of the boards.
Speaker stand progress
I worked long on the speaker stands today and made real progress. I have been meticulous with everything and taking my time. All parts cut up and mostly drilled. Still to do is cut the center hole in top and bottom parts, assembly and finish.
Installing Graylog on CentOS 7
Graylog is a nice log server. The documentation of its installation procedure is not as nice yet. Here is my log of how we installed it at work.
Updating the speakers
I have had speaker stands for several years now and thus haven’t had my speakers up and running either. I have now designed new stands for the front speakers which hopefully are more rigid than the old ones. I have also made the decision to remake the center and surround speaker enclosures.
The blog is back
I missed my blog. I need a place to share the stuff I do and make. This time hosted on WordPress.com as you can see. So what has happend since last update? Lets see.
- My dear friend Viggo, the smooth fox terrier, passed away a year ago
- Longing for a new puppy
- I got a new car. An Audi S3. I never finished that powered USB in my A6
- I got a new laptop. Currently running Fedora 22
- I started doing woodworking.
- I moved
- I learned Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- I got a GoPro Hero 4 Black
- Made a few videos
- I switched phones a couple of times. Currently a LG Nexus 5
- I got a few tables. Currently a ASUS Nexus 7 (2012) and HTC Nexus 9
- I’m bringing my Amiga up and running again
- Installed more cool servers at work
- Virtualization is big now. Using VMware a lot. Some KVM too
- Went on vacation
- Grilled a lot.
- I learned SketchUp
Adding powered USB to my car, Day 1
I recently bought a phone mount for my Audi A6. It is two parts. One part adapted for my car, the other part is adapted for my HTC Desire. The power is taken from a cigarette lighter connector. Stupid fucking retarded connector not designed for this! So my solution is to hack my car and the phone mount (it is not a car mount for my phone… would look kinda stupid to walk around with a car on the phone all day).
Step 1 is to add a powered USB to my dashboard. Step 2 is to snip the cigarette lighter plug and put a USB connector there instead.
Today I have soldered wires to the cable harness on the Symphony head unit. By using the “S” lead I get power when the ignition key is inserted AND turned. The power remains on until I remove the ignition key. So I can turn the motor off and still charge the phone. But when leaving the car (and taking ignition key out) there is no power to the USB port. Just the way I like it.
Installed some cool servers at work
Got a few new servers at work and man where they massive. HP sure makes great servers. There is a difference in server and desktop hardware. If you’re used to ordinary PC hardware and look at a server it is very much “Russian Space Station *clonk* *clonk*”. Everything is robust and big.
The servers in question are a pair of HP ProLiant DL 585 G5 with 4 QuadCore Opterons and 128GB RAM each. They will do important stuff, I’m sure.
Took some snaps of them too.
Fredrik Rambris 