(09-27-2009) Blondie's new treads...

Put new wheels and tires on Blondie today. I think they look fairly good. The pictures are a little blurry because I took them in low light, but you get the idea.

In other news, I tried installing a USB drive on a Wii this weekend and using USB Loader 1.5. I hadn't tried this before, but it works great. Also, the ISO images that store on the USB drive are much smaller than I anticipated, so you can save a bunch of games on even a small USB drive.

(09-14-2009) Slacker...

I've been slacking when it comes to working in the shop lately, but I have been working in the house adding motion and open/close sensors throughout, as well as cameras to monitor everything. I wrote custom software to monitor everything, send tweets / text messages when events happen as well as trigger sounds and speech (via voice synthesis) when these events happen. I have a few more things planned. Adding support for 3 more cameras and monitoring all doors, as well as glass-break sensors are in the plans. Just for fun, I'm planning to add an IR transmitter and setting a timed event for sending the Roomba out to clean the floor every day at a specified time.

Lots more home-automation stuff in the queue, but who knows when I'll have time or money to make it all happen.