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Building a Hexacopter

November 3, 2014 · by gguuss · in gadgets, gusstuff, Hacking, hacks

It’s been a while since I last wrote about multirotors and I have learned a lot since then. The DJI Phantom I started with had a few upgrades done to it: Carbon fiber blades were added Body was painted black The mainboard…

Programming an Adafruit LED matrix

October 30, 2014 · by gguuss · in gadgets, gusstuff, Hacking, hacks, java, videos

The plan   For Halloween, I am making costumes that are like discos and for the costume I wanted to create a light setup that would flash colored lights off of the costume. I wanted to support various modes like a beating heart: a…

You will eventually own a smart watch.

July 23, 2014 · by gguuss · in gadgets, Google, hardware, history, productivity, rants, Tools

Until recently, I was convinced smartwatches are cute gadgets but they are not very useful. I mean, you have a cell phone already. After spending some time with Android Wear, I’m sold, these are going to become very popular. I’ll try and explain why in this blog post.

Multi-rotors, Drones, Quad-copters, oh my!

November 22, 2013 · by gguuss · in gadgets, gusstuff, Hacking, howtos, robots

So…. I recently took the plunge into the hobby of multi-rotor robotics! I purchased a DJI Phantom (pictured during repairs): It’s an amazing piece of machinery and comes ready to fly (RTF). My first flight was a trip, I opened…

Chromecast, wow!

August 2, 2013 · by gguuss · in Chrome, Chromecast, gadgets, gusstuff, music

A long time media geek’s initial thoughts on the Chromecast device from Google. I freaking love the device and was completely surprised about these things.

Headphones

January 3, 2012 · by gguuss · in gadgets

I hadn’t really thought of it until a coworker asked, but I’m something of a headphone snob / nerd.  I have probably gone through well over a dozen pairs of headphones in the last 5 years.  So, since I already…

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