Siliconfish

Hobby blog about tech tips I've picked up, projects I'm working on, or links to useful information and cool stuff. I'm an Electrical Engineer and professional Analog IC designer for 25 years playing in my spare time. Arduino, hacking consumer electronics, video game hardware, satellite TV, PC building, Android apps, appliance repairs and whatever else that interests me.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Suicide for the strobe/flashlight app on Google

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I decided to pull the silicon fish blinky app off the market.  At the bottom are the comments I was getting.  I can't handle the shame. ...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

XFX 4890 Graphics card fan replacement - Shameful hack

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Because of my sense of humor, I'll share my fix for a bad fan on my XFX Radeon 4890 graphics card, otherwise known as a VGA cooling fan....
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Windows Security Suite virus - The most concentrated evil juice there is

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My son somehow picked up  Windows Protection Suite on his PC.  It started with a a pop up, and ended up hijacking all the browsers and maki...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Telemetry logger android app

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In order to make some augmented reality apps, and some other cool robot and telemetry apps, I decided to make a small app that reads out al...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Found/Fixed an LG C729 android phone with broken screen

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I found this on the street in front of my house.   It is a nice android phone that had been run over by a car.   I couldn't believe...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Dependency walker handy utility

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I was helped out of a jam by a free utility dependencywalker I've been using libusb for instrument control from Java on windows.  Rec...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Importing Java source code to eclipse from netbeans

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A friend wrote a Java program for analysis with a GUI, etc and I needed to import the source, edit it, compile, etc. These are the steps t...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Speech Jammer Android App

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I saw this whacko japanese article, and decided it might be a fun Android app to build.  I'm still on my Android app jag, maybe someday ...
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