Month: March 2016

  • Piano Tiles – Arduino Hack

    Piano Tiles – Arduino Hack

    Another game has been going viral recently – Piano Tiles. I tried playing it, and it sure is entertaining, but there’s no way I can beat some of my friends, they’re just too good (Sunny, I’m looking at you ๐Ÿ™‚ ). Not willing to throw in a towel that easily, I employed robots to do…

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  • Arduino – Simple cat toys

    Arduino – Simple cat toys

    Having few minutes of free time, and 2 cats looking at me suspiciously from the other end of living room , I made a simple toy using laser pointers and servos. They actually played with it for few minutes – success ๐Ÿ™‚ Arduino Uno, servo (micro 9g), 5V laser pointer andย kitchen paper towel roll is…

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  • Powershell – run as admin (elevated permissions)

    Powershell – run as admin (elevated permissions)

    Every now and then I find myself in need of running a powershell script with administrative privileges (i.e. to set a registry key). And since every time I end up doing a quick search, I thought I’ll keep this small snippet handy ๐Ÿ™‚   Simply put this at the beginning of the .ps1 file, and…

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  • Crafts – Fairy Jar

    Crafts – Fairy Jar

    This is a very simple project, yet fun activity to make it with your significant otherย or kids. And the end result is a quite unique decorative piece. Also – handmade and completely customizable! ๐Ÿ™‚   You’ll need: styrofoam ball (can be purchased in craft stores), big jar with lid, moss, artificial flowers and decorative elements…

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