MattW
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^^eh? I havn't seen any of the fast/furious movies cos exposure to diesel brings me out in a rash, lol So I don't actually know what you mean. (sorry...) As predicted, I'm snowed in again today (and the schools are shut) There is a HILARIOUS scene in the first movie, the opening race. The main characters car has a dual stage nitrous system setup to run off of a laptop that sits in the passenger seat of the car. When the curse word is about to hit the fan, the screen changes to say DANGER TO MANIFOLD, and which point the main character tells it to shut up, and slams the laptop screen down. He then proceeds to activate the second stage of nitrous, and get this, his diamond plate floorboard falls out while doing so. It's regarded as being one of the worst moments in filming history, purely for comedic value.
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aaahhh... now I gets you. Is this also where the "too much nos blows the welds on the intake" rubbish comes from? lol....
Yes, I think I might look for the scene you mention "danger to manifold" screensaver for when I get bored of the SCMODS one I made last night...
BLUES, ELWOOD ILLINOIS LICENSE : B263-1655-2187 CURRENTLY UNDER SUSPENSION WARRANTS OUTSTANDING : PARKG. 116 MOVING VIOLATIONS : 56 [blink]ARREST DRIVER ... IMPOUND VEHICLE[/blink] [/size][/tt]
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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but fast and furious is hardly's realistic, why would you replace a floorpan in a hyundai coupe with checkerplate which is heavier?
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1984 gtm coupe 1979 mini clubman estate pickup 1990 mini racing green 1996 mini sprite 1992 maestro 500 van 1995 fiat cinquecento
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MattW
Part of things
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aaahhh... now I gets you. Is this also where the "too much nos blows the welds on the intake" rubbish comes from? lol.... Yes, I think I might look for the scene you mention "danger to manifold" screensaver for when I get bored of the SCMODS one I made last night... BLUES, ELWOOD ILLINOIS LICENSE : B263-1655-2187 CURRENTLY UNDER SUSPENSION WARRANTS OUTSTANDING : PARKG. 116 MOVING VIOLATIONS : 56 ARREST DRIVER ... IMPOUND VEHICLE
Yes, haha. rooster, it was a Mitsu Eclipse.
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Maybe it's a halfords plastic checkerplate floor mat, glued over the rust holes ;D anyway it's off topic (apart from the laptop reference..)
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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OK, back to the hacking... lol I have a problem with the router despite reading the whole book, and the documentation on the openWRT wiki things don't exactly work like they should. The book (and the wiki) both say to alter settings use the command nvram but I get an error that says -ash nvram: not found and google isn't very helpful on that (except that a couple of other folk have the same trouble, and no-one helped them ) Eventually (I've spent half the evening reading the wiki) I find out what the trouble is, heretrouble is thats the ref page for the wrt54gl, not the gs. the GS page says no such thing, and even directs to download links that give you a 2.6 kernel image (all kamikase builds are. last 2.4 build is in white russian 0.9). Problems are: 1/ the firmware I downloaded yesterday isn't the right one for my needs - it was a test load so I can access the hardware. 2/wifi doesn't work it's a known bug, there is a fix BUT.... 3/ I can't use nvram, and I need to set the boot_wait flag so the router will accept new firmware again. The solution is to add some serial ports and use the serial recovery console to directly set boot_wait via PMON. If I wasn't already going to add some, and didn't have all the kit to hand (remember the nokia lead? It's about to make another appearance in this thread) I'd be pretty hacked off by now. So, warning to all who want to play, do this... download a 2.4 kernel image to your PC (from here upload it to router using the "upgrade firmware" screen in the linksys web interface (192.168.1.1) Log into it and do any essential nvram tasks (like set boot_wait) download another image (the one you wanted in the first place.. this is the latest RC) tftp it to the router during a boot sequence to upload it. That's what boot_wait is for. On a restart the hardware looks for an image sent to it on 192.168.1.1 and installs it if it finds one, otherwise it will continue to boot the old image. Without boot_wait, it doesn't even check, it just boots. Oh well, screwdriver and soldering iron time again, lol
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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rysz
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Thanks for that book SOC, I will return it to the library when finished I am now on the lookout for a generic wireless router to put in place while I perform the SD card hack and make into a baby torrent engine with a 16GB SD card! Should save more juice than my main machine! Rysz.
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chevazon
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1939 Chevrolet 2 door coupe, `67 `Zon estate, `87 Ragtop Cavalier, 4 x 800 Drifters,(!) 1500 Drifter
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---------------------------for so long it's not true, Wanted a woman, never bargained for you. Lots of people talk and few of them know, Soul of a woman was created below. yeah!
If you fill in the lyrics this is me with the post. Ellwood - eeepc - vodka - floor mats - got cabin fever - HELP !
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lolz chevazon...how did you know I was listening to 'zep? *Communication Breakdown, It's always the same, I'm having a nervous breakdown, Drive me insane! that's where I'm at though
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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chevazon
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1939 Chevrolet 2 door coupe, `67 `Zon estate, `87 Ragtop Cavalier, 4 x 800 Drifters,(!) 1500 Drifter
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"lolz chevazon...how did you know I was listening to 'zep?"
I`m hacking into your brain. That is why I`m going mad !
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Colonelk
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101 uses for an eeePCColonelk
@colonelk
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remember my N35? the acer pda/satnav I mentioned on about page 2 or 3...no? here's a recap. It's awful. Windows CE version 4 isn't the most flexible OS in the world (winCE is right, lol) I mean, the reader software won't actualy read a pdf, for example (I can buy books from microshaft's website, all nicely keysigned to the device so I can't even back em up..) and the navigation software is buggy, restricted and annoying. PLUS it wont reveal its gps info to other devices. Googling "n35 linux" in a hope of rescuing it gives bleak news. No-one bothered. That's why it was under conor's bed when I went hunting for it this evening. But why, if it's useless? Well, I found out something by accident. I hadn't taken any notice at all of the architecture INSIDE the acer, only it's GPS. Google led me to believe that whatever a samsung S3C2410 was, it's stuck with windows CE, live with it. I can't even upgrade the nav software to tom-tom8 cos it's too slow with not enough ram not that I was going to of course, it's just what google says. Thing is, its *actually* an ARM920T which is well supported, and now I'm looking at it properly, it's more like a beagleboard in a fancy case ;D So, in the spirit of adventure, I've patched and modded a kernel and played about (rather a lot) this evening and I've got this far I have a working kernel, root shell access, logged into the eeePC using ethernet over USB (which wouldn't work with winCE). what I don't have yet is a working OS. ArchLinux looks like a prime candidate though. Goal here is to put standalone logging capabilities onto the PDA so I can hide it in someone's car and figure out where they go do useful, legal stuff with it. here's the terminal output from logging into the newly hacked PDA Seriously though, even though the "standard" kit for the acer is 1 usb lead and a charger it actually has usb (client) usb (host) RS-232 serial via the edge connector and (on the PCB inside) TTL serial as well as integrated GPS and an SD card slot. Compares quite favourably to the beagleboard in terms of spec and ram (and I already own it, it was £20 in a clearance shop, natch...) Also in other 1337 n00z I just bought a linksys WRT54GS router on ebay Chap, I know youve probably seen it, but on the off chance... www.letux.org has a Linux distro for the Acer N30 and apparently with some changes to some setup files you can get it to work with the N35. HTH! (not done it myself!)
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^^ I've seen it, it costs money, lol. You can buy a SD card with letux pre-loaded. Thats how I figured it was doable ;D but seeing as I'm just trying to occupy myself while the weather is so bad and also trying not to spend money I'm taking the DIY route
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Colonelk
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101 uses for an eeePCColonelk
@colonelk
Club Retro Rides Member 83
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What?! they charge!? Didnt realise or I wouldnt of bothered posting. Thatll learn me not to read fully haha!
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Jan 13, 2010 13:01:08 GMT
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I'd love an eeepc, it fit's perfect into my combats thigh pocket, but I want a much more 'ruggedized' one, too much water on a bike. Honestly, I got mine (7" version) from toys r us when the first came out. It's been modded, abused by the kids, dropped, had water tipped in it, got cooked once when it was put back in it's bag while still on, been carted all over the place in my backpack and it's not missed a beat. There's nothing available now which is quite like it. If you want one I'd say get one while they're relatively cheap 2nd hand. I'd prefer the 9" screen as the 7" is a bit narrow for reading the web (particularly the picture heavy Redro rides board), but then I reckon I'd lose out a bit on the ruggedness. Oh, and a solid state one means the only moving part is the fan. Proper hard disks do break quite easily when dropped.
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Jan 13, 2010 22:37:44 GMT
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^^ very true. The eee is a tough little beggar all right, apart from the keyboard disaster it's standing up to daily (ab)use rather well. My arduino arrived this morning! Smaller than a credit card and very useful. It's a programmable microcontroller (small computer, lol) with literally a million uses. Google it if you like... I stumbled on it while looking for a suitable board to interface the output from the router to actual physical circuits. Both boards use 3.3v serial TTL so no conversion necessary, EDIT no they arn't - the arduino uses 5v ttl so I will have to do level conversion, but it's not hard, THEN all I need to do is write suitable code for both the router and the arduino so they can talk to each other. There's even a nice arduino shaped gap inside the router casing ;D Also in this pic is another clearance bargains special.. Fuji camera accessory kit, Tripod, case, 1Gb SD card, I USB SD card reader. fiver! I bought two ;D One of the card readers is now on my upstairs PC and the other is going to get butchered to give the router an SD slot. The small brown board used to be a USB mouse, it died so I'm re-using its guts for the arduino tutorial projects (I need switches, an LED and a potentiometer - all provided on the mouse already. Why buy when you can recycle, eh?) Which brings me to this (another clearance bargains special - £12 for a 40Gb MP3 player) OK, there had to be a catch at that price... I used it for a little while at the garage, it has a very strange idea of what "random" is (it shuffles the songs, then starts to play from the same point in the list EVERY time you start it) and gets annoying quite quickly. Also, 40Gb is a lot of music, and the search function sucks, it only supports ONE playlist (which you can't save) so it got retired and the toughbook took it's place on tune duty. So I've partitioned its hard drive, leaving an ample 5Gb on a FAT16 partition for music and stolen the other 35Gb as a USB hard drive. Remember the eee only has 8Gb total. I'm totally running out of space and this is a cheap way to get more ;D
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Ooh sorry for teh two month timewarp there. Thought I was on the last page when I quoted. What are you planning to do with your Atmel board? Looks intriguing. I used to run OpenWRT on a Belkin F5D7230 and a Netgear DG834G for providing my wireless network and keeping my ssh forward to my proxy server open, but I since switched to a mini ITX board which I've got booting off a pendrive. I found the routers a bit resource strapped for doing more than a couple of things at once and cross compiling for them was getting to be a pita.
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I have a few things I'm going to try out with the artuino (atmel) but the main plan is to use it with the WRG router to provide wireless control and monitoring functions on a car. I'm not going to be more specific than that at the moment Thing is it's such a versitile little beggar.. since I got it this morning I've sketched out a plan and started writing some code to convert a manual gearshift to up/down paddle operation - I'd been puzzling over conor's micra based buggy - the gearshift comes out the back of the engine (which is in the back...) It's a classic problem. A mechanical linkage would be huge and complex (and hard to get right.. someone already had a go) but I reckon with 2 servos (1 for rotate, one for in-out) on the box and 2 microswitches I can code the arduino to do the correct servo movements to select the gears. Heck, I could even get it to display the current gear on an 8 segment LED. I have servos - I gutted a granada electric seat (position reporting motors cos it's a memory seat ;D) but I need to make some suitable control circuitry to drive 12v (and fairly high current) motors off the ttl output from the board. Again, not hard. I'll post results if/when I do anything about it, anyway.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Sounds like it will be very cewl indeed. What about the clutch though, or will you cut the ignition during changes GP-bike like? What about down shifts?
I know some VW boxes (I'm thinking 80s era) had a cam which operated an individual switch for each gear which would make it a bit easier to tell when you're in and can stop pushing on the linkage now. Don't know your box has something similar, but without that kind of feedback I'd be a bit worried about selector fork wear. Perhaps if your servos aren't worm drive you could monitor the current in the motor to 'feel' for the notch when the synchro is overcome and the gear drops in.
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Jan 14, 2010 13:46:07 GMT
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Not planning to replace the clutch with anything... there is still going to be a third pedal. As for telling when it is in gear.. I'm hoping I can do that with the servo (hoping.... lol) as the servo has position sensing on it, I should be able to get it to stop where I want it.. (the usual way is to subtract actual position from required position, use the difference as an error signal to drive the motor. when they are equal the diff is zero, motor stops...)
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Jan 14, 2010 20:37:56 GMT
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thats some good bargains you got there. I was in Toys R Us a while ago. They had bargain bins. I got a 256mb headphone mp3 player, for £2.50. And they had accesory packs for the Gameboy advance. I don't have an advance. But there was normal earphones in every pack. And the packs were six pence each. I got 10 packs. Threw the car chargers and game cases away. I had a bout of concious at the till. the pretty teenager only put the accesories through. So only charged me 60p. I told her she hadnt put the MP3 player through. I don't want to get her in trouble. Least not that way.
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