Carbon Steel Frying Pans

After watching a documentary on teflon coated frying pans and the risks that might come with it, I decided to go out and try carbon steel frying pans. Two arrived today. Cleaned them thoroughly and then seasoned them.

This evening a first try-out and I’ll have to say, no sticking at all!
Without a chance of eating bad particles or fumes coming out of the pan.
I like it!

Ready for seasoning the pan

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Share part of your screen in Skype and MS Teams

Are you also bothered by not being able to share part of your screen in Skype or MS Teams?
I just built a small app that will do exactly that! 🙂

Latest release can be found on github, built using .Net 5. As well as the source code.
Just copy the files (source code files not required) to a folder and start ScreenShareApp.exe.

Startup screen
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Project bakfiets

The ‘box’ of the bakfiets is at its end and needs a repair. Rain and winter did their job and the box starts to fall apart. I measured the size of the current box and used that to model a 3D virtual version of it. Then took the virtual model apart to fit it on a big plate to will be sawed to the right dimensions.

3D model of the new box using Blender
Pieces to cut from a standard board

Case for HiFi speaker filter

Actually, the bottom part of the case. The rest is already there and made of wood. I like to experiment with a bit of 3D printing so now and then and decided to create the bottom plate for the external filter.

Created in Blender. I am really curious how this works out. About to send it to a 3D printing network.

NFC chips

This week I ordered a few NFC chips to play around with using my Android phone. It turns out that these can make a dead easy way to configure your phone!

I’m planning to have one sticker somewhere in my car to configure it for ‘driving’ i.e. turn off Wifi, put it in Car Mode and pronounce it is now in car mode. Then when I leave the car, I’ll swipe my phone over the NFC chip again to toggle it to go back into normal mode, saying the same for confirmation. Nice!

Secondly, I’ll configure another NFC for ‘meetings’: turning to silent mode and back out of it with an easy swipe over the NFC chip.

Thirdly, I’ll try to program another NFC chip to contain my contact data and glue it to the back of one of my contact cards. That way, business contacts can swipe their phone over it and have all the info. Great!

 

I ordered my NFC chips at http://www.nfc-nederland.nl/, they arrived the next day and the company has a great service. I even received an extra chip! (before writing this article)

 

On my Android, I used the app NFC Retag (XDA Developers or Google Play) for the actionable tags and NFC TagWriter for writing the contact info NFC tag.

Beuningen

6H6A1735

Rasberry Pi and Z-Wave makes Razberry

RazberryOpenRemote Here’s a guideline to setup ZWave.me GPIO addon on your Rasberry Pi and install OpenRemote.

Hardware
ZWave.me addon module is bought separately from the Rasberry Pi and can be plugged in using the GPIO pins on the board. So far, for the hardware setup 🙂

Software
Setup Rasberry

  1. Download the hardfloat version of Raspbian “wheezy” here.
  2. On Ubuntu:
    Unzip
    Plugin SD card
    Unmount card (df -h to check which devices)
    sudo dd bs=4M if=~/Downloads/2013-05-29….img of=/dev/sdd
    sync
    Plugout SD card
  3. Plugin SD card in the raspberry and fire it up
  4. Set timezone
    Enable SSH
    Also note the IP for logging on to your Raspberry.
    (When you already closed the config, start it again using raspi-config)
  5. Add en_GB locale (or the one for your region) and add to /etc/default/locale
    LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8

Setup R-wave

  1. Logon to Raspberry via SSH or use the terminal
  2. wget -q -O – http://razberry.z-wave.me/install | sudo bash
  3. Uncomment following lines in /boot/config.txt:
    framebuffer_width=1280
    framebuffer_height=720
  4. Reboot via:
    sudo reboot
  5. Check http://<ip Razberry>:8083 to make sure all is running up to this point.
    The site also provides functions to add new devices, put them on a map, view their state and control them.

Install Java 8

  1. Download file using Raspberry or computer
    Copy from computer to Raspberry using:
    scp jdk-8-ea-b36e-linux-arm-hflt-29_nov_2012.tar.gz pi@192.168.0.148:/home/pi
  2. Logon to Raspberry and execute:
    tar zxvf jdk-8-ea-b36e-linux-arm-hflt-29_nov_2012.tar.gz /opt
    sudo update-alternatives –install “/usr/bin/java” “java” /opt/jdk1.8.0/bin/java 1
    sudo update-alternatives –set java /opt/jdk1.8.0/bin/java
  3. Add JAVA_HOME to /etc/environment:
    JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0
  4. Add JAVA_HOME and PATH to ~/.bashrc
    export JAVA_HOME=”/opt/java/jdk1.8.0″
    export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
  5. Reboot using:
    sudo reboot
  6. After logging on again, Java can be verified by executing: java

Install Open Remote

  1. Download from the site using Raspberry or computer
    Copy to Raspberry using:
    scp OpenRemote-Controller-2.1.0_SNAPSHOT-2013-06-17.zip pi@192.168.0.1:/home/pi
  2. Logon to Raspberry and unzip to /opt
  3. Install librxtx-java using:
    sudo apt-get install librxtx-java
  4. Copy file librxtxSerial.so to OpenRemote:
    cp /usr/lib/jni/librxtxSerial.so /opt/OpenRemote-Controller-2.1.0_SNAPSHOT-2013-06-17/webapps/controller/WEB-INF/lib/native/librxtxSerial.so
  5. OpenRemote is started by going to /opt/OpenRemote…../bin and then start using:
    for debugging use: sudo ./openremote.sh run
    for running in the background use: sudo ./openremote.sh start
  6. Verify all is working by visiting http://<ip razberry>:8080/controller
  7. Sign up for an account at OpenRemote here, this is required for the controller (sync panel/ configuration). Logging on to this site enables you to configure OpenRemote. After that sync. When synced, the configuration is loaded and the panel can be opened via http://<ip razberry>:8080/webconsole.
  8. After configuring RRD4J, graphs can be viewed via http://<ip razberry>:8080/controller/graph?name=temperature

 

Upgrading the firmware of the Raspberry Pi via:rpi-update

 

Update all software on the Raspberry Pi via:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Autumn Lage Vuursche

Harley Davidson

Park Assist

Snel en gemakkelijk gebruik maken van je bezoekersvergunning? Dat kan met Park Assist!

PA slaat de gegevens van jouw parkeervergunning op. Wanneer je bezoek krijgt hoef je alleen het kenteken in te vullen en op verzenden te drukken. PA zal een SMS naar de gemeente sturen en bij ontvangst van de bevestiging automatisch een alarm zetten. Makkerlijker kan niet!

De app is te vinden in Google’s play store.