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Turnigy Bonsai 2020 – Updating my classic wing

06/15/2020 How To RC Hobby No Comments
This was one of my very first wings that I’ve ever purchased, I think I’ve had it over 5-6 years now. Enjoyed crashing and flying the Turnigy Bonsai more times than I can remember. Always have flown it FPV with older crappy cameras and now to the newer higher quality ones (which made a big difference in enjoyment and visibility of course). This small flying wing started out as my first “plane build”, and has…
Onkyo Remote

Fixing ONKYO RC-710m Remote volume issues

01/21/2015 Hardware How To Thoughts & Rants Tinkering 126 Comments
I’ve got an ONKYO 7.1 surround sound home theater system, and in the past 6 months the volume buttons stopped working, well not stopped… they would periodically work if you mashed/held the buttons (up or down) but generally they stopped being responsive. After searching online, I almost bought a new remote on ebay just to make the problem go away, there just didn’t seem to be reliable information on the remote itself, let alone how…

Fixing a Nexus7 if it is not Charging and only emits static noise

06/10/2014 Android Tinkering 2 Comments
If you’ve got a Nexus7 and one day discover that it will not turn on, refuses to charge and also emits a strange static burst of noise. Well you my friend have found what some people discovered is the Nexus7’s battery protection phase. The battery protection phase seems to stop the device from charging to reduce the likelihood of further damage to the battery (since it ran down to almost 0%) To get your Android…

Updating ASUS TF101 from stock to Android KitKat (4.4.2)

02/02/2014 Android Hardware How To Tinkering 111 Comments
So I’ve had the ASUS EeePad Transformer TF101 for almost 2 years now, and have been pretty happy with it, but it has gotten quite laggy and the input is always delayed. It could be a cause of the number of apps installed over that period of time, or simply that I’m used to using ‘faster’ tablets (work etc;). I decided then to liberate my ASUS TF101 from it’s stock locked (no longer supported by…

Mounting remote SFTP/SSH shares on Mac OSX 10.9

01/13/2014 Apple How To Linux Tinkering 4 Comments
If you’ve always wanted a way to mount a remote SFTP/SSH accessible folder on your Mac OSX 10.9, well now there is a way to get you there! Basically you will have access to the remote share to access files. It will be SFTP over the SSH protocol and fully encrypted. Getting started Start by downloading the following files: OSXFuse (v2.6.2 as of this post) SSHFS (v2.4.1 as of this post) – WIKI Install OSXFuse and…

Redirect user back after login using CodeIgniter

01/06/2014 How To PHP Thoughts & Rants 3 Comments
So you’ve made your CodeIgniter app using PHP, you’ve made is safe, secure and skipped needing to use SQL in favor of Active Records. Well the one thing most people forget to do (or realize later) is a simple UX (user experience) flow of post login routing. Basically, you want users to go back to the content they viewed prior to login, in most cases this is the most preferred route because the user logs…

Codeigniter keeping bots out of your sessions table or how I cleaned up my sessions

01/06/2014 GitHub How To PHP 1 Comment
A few people have looked at ways to keep their CodeIgniter mysql sessions table clean on their apps, and the biggest culprit for ballooning session tables is due to the fact that your site gets indexed or scanned by web crawlers and various bots. Typically with CodeIgniter sessions, you would store them in a `ci_session` table  reference in your database, so every time a bot visits your site, a new entry gets created and sits until…