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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Replacing battery on a Syma S107 RC Helicopter

01/03/2014 Hardware How To Tinkering No Comments

I got this little Syma S107 RC Heli 2 years ago for Christmas, and a couple months back I picked it up and turned it on to see if it still worked. It turned on, lights flashed, but I noticed there was no lift