Since two days I really miss my favourite radiostation, it’s now officially out of the ether. Immediately I looked into alternatives. One alternative is to connect the stereoinstallation via coax to the cable, where Arrow Jazz still broadcasts. Unfortunately the installation doesn’t have a coax input. Then my gadget-instinct showed up and I searched for [...]
28Oct08
Solar mobile charger
The last months I read several times about new solar energy breakthroughs on Digg, but often it takes a few years before you will see it back in the stores. I was not planning to buy a big solar energy panel, because we don’t even have the space for that. And because we are renting [...]
First be warned: this is a technical post. A few weeks ago I was thinking about building a lower power mini-computer to replace my current barebone most of the time – except when 3d is needed. I was aiming at 50 watts maximum power usage. I looked around at myelectronics.nl, but I couldn’t find what [...]
7Jul08
Solar energy bag
This morning I was reading about a new car from Toyota which would have solar energy panels on it’s roof. That’s nice ofcourse, but immediately I was thinking about powering/recharging my Asus EEE mini-laptop with solar energy. A quick google didn’t find yet such a device for laptops – just using a simple solar energy [...]