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Episode 36 - Avoid a Fire - Wire your Car Safely
February 4th, 2008 - Whether it's the PC in our Wireless Access Truck, a massive 1000W amplifier or an extra power plug for a cell phone, the same rules apply... ignore 'em, and you could turn your car into a fire hazard... or just blow out ...

Episode 35 - Share Internet Access at Highway Speeds: EVDO + WiFi
January 28th, 2008 - We've got half a day of wiring to build the Wireless Access Truck out of an EVDO modem, a Wilson Electronics Cell Phone Booster, a 12V Mini ITX PC and a WiFi adapter... Hit it.

Episode 34 - Painting Your Project, Notebook or PC: Rattlecan 101
January 21st, 2008 - Have we painted a notebook? Sure. PC Case? Absolutely. Various and sundry DIY projects? Yup. Ryan and Nik want some help painting laptops and PC cases... so we've got a collection of basic tricks to get the best quality ...

Episode 33 - DIY Live Broadcasting Online
January 14th, 2008 - Live video broadcasts from a cell phone? On the flight home from CES 2008 we realized watching Robert Scoble walking and streaming live video with Qik was way cool... and something we wanted to play with on Systm.

Episode 32 - DIY Hydrogen for More MPG: Part 1
January 7th, 2008 - Car + Hydrogen = Better Mileage? We're not quite ready to drop the cash on one of those under hood mileage boosters being sold all over the web.. but using water electrolysis to produce Hydrogen sounded like a good first...

Episode 31 - Wired Magazine/Living Homes Exhibit in LA
December 31st, 2007 - On this episode of (Eco)Systm, we venture out and take a tour of the Wired Magazine/Living Homes Exhibit in LA. This collaborative effort will redefine what we typically think of when we hear of "Prefab" construction. ...

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systm.nl now online !!

Posted by tehBoris on 01/08/2009 at 01:09:47 pm in Systm

I'm amazed that post doesn't contain the phrase "Send best bid now!".

What is the Systm background?

Posted by Cybersuchus on 01/07/2009 at 09:22:00 pm in Systm

I've pondered this for a few episodes now, and it has finally gotten to me enough to warrant posting it as a question.

Systm's background: it's a schematic of what, exactly?

While I can imagine it just being a random set of circuit symbols; given Dave Randolph's involvement with the set design, I'm more willing to bet that it is a diagram of something.

Anyone know what it is?

Using electronics audio filters

Posted by fishtoprecords on 01/07/2009 at 05:09:15 pm in Systm

Filters never restore anything. They just remove stuff. They can be useful to remove signals that are labeled "noise" but never actually fix anything.

Each step in the recording process is lossy. Some more than others.

Even a $2000 microphone does not record "exactly" what is in the air.

Macworld, CES or NAMM predictions?

Posted by fishtoprecords on 01/07/2009 at 08:27:44 pm in Systm

Trade shows for the professional trade made tons of sense, and are still useful. There is, for example, a big toy show in February where the Toy reps and the store reps figure out what to order for delivery in September for the Christmas season.

Trade shows that let in consumers is silly. And Vegas for a big show is more zoo than useful. Hours to get a bus, lines for food. Bletch.

Here is a great conference about imformation system and management-ljh

Posted by leijinghang on 01/06/2009 at 05:17:42 am in Systm

============================================================================
Information Systems and Management: Special Track within EMS
CALL FOR PAPERS
*link*
Beijing, China September 20-22, 2009
============================================================================
ISM is a special track within the 3rd International Conference on Engineering
Management and Service Sciences (EMS2009).
Topics:
Information and Systems Security
Information System Applications
Data Mining and E-Commerce

This conference is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Beijing University of
Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Institute of Technology and Wuhan
University. All papers accepted will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed
by EI. For more information, please contact: ism@scirp.org

Episode 85 - Cheap and Easy Hard Drive Upgrade [Discussion]

Posted by computoman on 01/07/2009 at 08:28:34 pm in Systm

The retail version of ghost is crippled compared to the enterprise version. Where I used to work, There was nothing ghost would not copy except the older apple formated media.

Show Idea

Posted by laramsfreak on 01/07/2009 at 10:54:48 pm in Systm

I'd really like/need to make a portable battery Power Pack (like
Bowens Explorer 1500ws Battery Generator just as an example) used to power studio strobes/flash units for photography. A good set is typically over $1,000. I'm sure you guys can come up with something at a fraction of the cost.

What are some good kits for a soldering "first project?"

Posted by kjsatz on 12/31/2008 at 09:19:24 pm in Systm

What are some good kits to use for a "first project" to learn to solder? I don't want to do a headphone amp....

Some ones I am thinking about:

Digg Button (*link*
Trippy RGB Waves (*link*
TV-B-Gone (*link*

What do you folks think? Any other ones come to mind?

Episode 84 - How To Rip and Encode DVDs [Discussion]

Posted by smcewen on 01/08/2009 at 07:16:54 am in Systm

I just finished a little project to create an automatic way to rip, encode, and tag my home dvd collection to my apple tv using a little bit of Perl and Applescript. All that the user needs to do is insert the dvd, type in the title into the popup, and click ok.

The scripts rip and encode the movie using the HandbrakeCLI with the AppleTV preset, decomb filter, and a few other settings to automatically use the longest title and only forced subtitles. When that finishes, the Yahoo movie API is used to look up the title, rating, cover art (low quality, but better than IMDB), description, actors, director, genre, etc based on the name that was entered into the popup. Atomic Parsley is then used to tag the ripped MP4 file with these fields. The file is then added to iTunes and automatically synced off to the Apple TV!

Applescript is triggered when a dvd movie is inserted and creates the popup. That script then calls a Perl script that handles the encoding, Yahoo movie lookup, and tagging commands. This script also copies the final movie file into the destination directory (in my case on an external HD), and calls another small bit of Applescript to add the file iTunes and eject the dvd.

For discs that HB has problems with I rip first using MTR (or AnyDVD in Windows if that can't handle it), naming the directory the title of the movie, and then use a Finder Plugin to kick off my scripts.

Systm Today?

Posted by chuckles on 12/29/2008 at 04:15:31 pm in Systm

*link*

-chuckles-

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