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Starting a new business

This post is about my foray to start a new business with 2 friends following the lean startups’ methodology and what I learn from it.

3D Printed Wrist Brace

I injured my wrist recently, wasn’t serious enough to see a doctor (yet) but there’s an uncomfortable position that I wanted to avoid. From what I learned about recovering from my back pain, to aid the recovery of my wrist I need to avoid irritating it, especially the tendon and ligament. I’ve seen others using…

Cyber Apocalypse CFT 2021 Write-up

I’ve recently participated in a CTF (Capture The Flag) organized by HackTheBox and had a lot of fun solving the hardware and misc challenges. This is a quick write-up on my solutions.

Aircon Monitor – Part 1 – The introduction

This is the first part of a multi-part series about some hardware & software that I hacked together to monitor the AC current of our outdoor inverter aircon unit, which is reporting an overcurrent error. Part 1 – The introduction – Why, what & how (you’re reading this)Part 2 – The hardware – current sensor,…

Simple programmable load with gain

Today I needed to test a new PCB design for a load cell module. In order to evaluate the load response of the excitation circuit, I have to find a way to control the load current while observing the excitation voltage. The load curent needed is less than 20mA. A quick search online and I…

My rant about Samsung

I’ve been avoiding Samsung’s smartphone ever since my S3 (I9300), mainly because I felt cheated paying a premium for a cheap product. I believe most people would have heard of the famous crack screen on Note(s), crack frames and the eMMC hardware bug. I’m the victim of the latter 2 issues within 6 months of…

DIY Case for Raspberry Pi

While waiting for a proper Raspberry Pi case from element14 (formerly known as Farnell), I stumble across a site where the author designed a paper case for his Pi and kindly shared it to the world. I gave it a try today, and easily done it in less than 30 minutes. The design is well…

The flaws of current stars rating system

I was in a discussion with Matthew Yun today, and just realized that the current rating system for product review or rating contains so much noise that the 5 stars system is simply ambiguous to help consumer to decide a product. We were specifically taking about Google Play, but it applies generally to most review…

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