Roland MDX-40A
A friend of mine bought himself a Roland MDX-40A desktop milling machine, with the optional ZCL-40A rotary axis. It was from an E-bay seller. It comes with a large assortment of tools and accessories. But they all came in a bag. Hard to find small items, and not very well protected.
As one of our first large projects on the machine, I designed a storage case to hold all the accessories.
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Today I tried out two new LED lights. The first was a Philips AmbientLED in the MR16 form-factor, to work in my low-voltage tracklights. The second was a Cree EcoSmart CR6 pot-light.
I’ve been experimenting with different low-power light options around the house. CFLs, dimmable CFLs, and most recently some Philips LED bulbs.
Since so many of my switches have been replaced with X-10 or Insteon dimmer switches, I need bulbs that can support dimming, or at least not be damaged by it. The dream bulb would be something with the same colour-rendering and dimming behaviour as an incandescent, but still low-power.
No low-power bulb has knocked my socks off yet, but the weird-looking one pictured to the right has come the closest.
For the KeypadLinc with clear buttons, SmartHome provides an MS Word template for creating your labels. I found it lacking in many ways. So, I made my own.
Here’s something I don’t get…
If I buy a cable box outright, with my own money, why is it that Rogers thinks they’re entitled to an opinion about what software options are enabled on it?
For example, cable boxes have the ability to let you hide channels you don’t subscribe to. The manufacturers support this. But Rogers blocks it. They want us to have to flip through pages and pages of channels we don’t care about. Why are they able to do this to us? I know why they want to: because they’re greedy controlling pricks. But why are they able to?
Why are they able to push unwanted firmware changes onto a box they don’t own? Usually, there are laws against that kind of thing. If I hacked into Rogers’ computers and changed all their screensavers so they had to look at pictures of me every day, I’d get years in prison. How is it that they are allowed to do it to me?
If I buy a cable box with my own money, I don’t want their filthy digits grubbing around in it. Is there no way to take back control of a box that I own? Is there no way to keep the rat bastards out?
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