Category: Projects
Home Automation: Future Thinking
So, home control with your own setup is great, but you have to think about what happens in the event you sell your house, get…
Home Automation: Electrical Safety
This is part one of some of my notes regarding Home Automation concepts. Part 2 is about planning for the future and house resale value….
How to Stop Your Caravan From Disappearing
Caravan thefts in New Zealand have become a lot more common in the past few years, and every day or so you hear about another…
Tips: Get Your Cabling in Tricky Places
Do you have an existing house or structure and trying to get a cable into a tricky place? Here are a few tips from methods…
1965 Zephyr Caravan Renovation
These are the before and after photos of our 1965 15″ Zephyr Deluxe Caravan. It was apparently stored in a shed for 20 years so…
Upgrading a 5 Year Old Samsung Galaxy S2 to Android M
I needed a phone for my son as he had been given an older ZTE V795 phone running Android Gingerbread. The ridiculous thing about this…
My Photobooth Project…
I needed a photobooth for my wedding (this was one of my few assigned wedding tasks!). You know, one of those ‘take a few photos…
How I manage and share 1000s of digital photographs
People often ask me for the best way to store their thousands of photos, and I’ve tried a bunch of ways in the past. I take…
How about some Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse….
Tips to create easy Tag Cloud Artwork
You’ve seen them… those pictures made up of lots of words. You can create these pretty easily at Tagxedo, but it is handy to have…
You need a Zombie Apocalypse Kit
I must admit I was once a Boy Scout… and tend to like to be prepared for stuff. Sometimes more than I really need to…
