Archive for the ‘diy’ Category

Waypoint-Catcher publicly available

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Waypoint-Catcher

Waypoint-Catcher

I’ve just released Waypoint-Catcher into the world wild web. It’s a very basic application for the NOkia N810. It just allows to set a waypoint and to tag it with a name and comment. It helped me a lot with occasional mapping, so I hope it is useful for others, too.

Furniture finishings using linseed oil

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

I will grab the occasion to share some knowledge about creating furniture surfaces using linseed oil. linseed oil is a natural product with many uses. One of them is to use it to create finishings of wooden surfaces.
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Failing where you thought you were best

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Flax

Flax

Did you ever think there are things where noone can beat you? Where you will never fail? Where you exactly know what you are doing? I doubt that you are right, as I learned my lesson these days.

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Nokia N810 in a “home grown” bike mount

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

As promised, here are the pics of the N810 in the Otterbox 2000, mounted on my bike. This is the default position which I’m using:

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RAM mount arrived

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Today the RAM mount for my home-grown N810 container arrived:

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Case for the Nokia N810

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

For this year’s biking trips, I want to replace my worthy Garmin GPSMap 60Cx with my Nokia N810. But unlike the GPSMap, the Nokia is neither water- nor shock-resistant. I searched the web for a bike mount, but that led me nowhere. So I came up with a rather DIY’ish solution, which I started today:

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