New Stuff!

I got some new things and proceeded to modify them :) 

It's under my newly added Game System modification page, so check it out!

Here's a preview:

A quick script

So I got this awesome Japanese Harry Potter audiobook and I ripped it in .m4a format accidentally, instead of .m4b, which would show up as a book on my phone instead of music.

Rather than re-rip the 10 discs I decided to simply rename them. This proved to be quite annoying in the Mac gui. You have to click the name, hit space, click the end of the line, change the extension, confirm that you want to change it... for every file...

I decided to take a more direct approach and use terminal. To rename in terminal you just move the file to the same directory and change the name. 

So it was something to the effect of:

mv 01\ Audio\ Track.m4a 01\ Audio\ Track.m4b

but doing it this way meant I had to manually change the number every time by holding the left arrow till I got to the number and then change it...

Obviously I had to automate this process, so I threw together a little bash script to do all this for me. 

<CODE>

#/bin/sh

V=1

while [ $V -lt 10 ]; do

echo renaming Number $V

mv 0$V\ Audio\ Track.m4a 0$V\ Audio\ Track.m4b &

let V=$V+1

done

if [ $V = 10 ]; then

while [ $V -lt 30 ]; do

echo renaming number $V

mv $V\ Audio\ Track.m4a $V\ Audio\ Track.m4b &

let V=$V+1

done

fi

</CODE>

This little beauty starts at 01 and changes the name of each of them, sequentially, until 29. 

This takes about .3 seconds per folder and worked flawlessly!

The tricky bit, that looks a little redundant at first, was to get it to count 01, 02, 03, etc... Which is why there is the check to see if it's 10 or less :)

I hope this does somebody good lol I love it!

A quik fix

So I was straightening up earlier and I found both halves of my old glasses. That may not sound like good news to you, broken glasses and whatnot, but to me it's a relief. I've run across bothpieces separately before, but this is the first time I've had both together.

I decided this would be a good opportunity to do some 'plastic welding' 

For those of you new to my blog, I mean of course, melting and manipulating the plastic with a soldering iron, not actual plastic welding.

Now I don't just burn things with my soldering iron, I have specific retired tips for my soldering iron that I use for this. Here's an example

Anyway, I rejoined the new pieces and I've got myself a new pair of repaired glasses!

Here's a few shots of the repairs:

And the finished pair, that I'm wearing now :)

New page!

So I've started a new series of projects to improve my wifi signal. Being the cheapskate that I am (broke guy is more like it) I decided to improvise some antenna solutions for it, rather than buy a new adapter or router.

Anyway, I've added a new page for it that you can check out here or find the Cantenna page on the sidebar (drop down box on mobile) So go check it out!

Here's a little preview:

It's been a while

Hey everybody! It's been a while! 

Sorry for the long lapse of silence, but I got a new job typing all day, so I haven't really felt like typing in a while lol Well, that and the new baby, she's such a cute little handful. 

But, I finally got a chance to do a few things today, so I figured I'd post 'em.

First off I made a neat little modification to my heatsink on the iMac hacking part II page. so go read that over there. 

Secondly, I got a new Bench 'pi for Christmas, but I haven't done much but put it in the old one's case:

And last but not least, I added a really nicely detailed repair of my NES console, which you can read about here.

I've got several more things I need to be working on, so when I do make some progress, you will be the first to know!

It's the little things...

I added a couple of posts today: one in the Misc. Builds page, and an update to my Laptop to All-in-one project page.

I also added quick references to EVERY project page, so that you can skip to the newest updates from the top of the page. It took a while, but I think it will be worth it in the end and I hope you guys like it.

Here's some pretty tubes to look at:

As always, check out the project pages for the full story, click on some ads, and thanks for reading!

Cleaning up

I decided, after taking a photo of my workstation, that I reeeeeealy need to get it sorted out... I had two separate organizers I picked up to do just that, but they've been sitting empty for over a month now. So I spent today hacking through my main work table. I'm going to do my computer desk tomorrow. 

 Before:

I love my one armed chair lol

My iMac build and what's left of my bench 'pi

My all-in-one build is in there somewhere :)

After:

I'll post a picture of the other desk when I get it done too. 

That's all for now! Thanks for reading!