Cyryl Plotnicki - 8
Assembling RepRapPro Mendel
It was December, 3D printing fever struck me. Here is the first day of me building ReprapPro Mendel printer. Second day of building. Fun fact: you can see the daylight come and go ;) Next few days - Featuring hotbed and plastic extruder ! Yet anot ... read more →
Erlang Tech night
I recently gave a two hours presentation on Erlang 101 along with Fabian. Because of the generous support from Infusion I was able to speak at Institute of Computer Science at University of Wroclaw. The event was a blast, and that is an opinion of th ... read more →
Laptop I'd love to buy
support for 16GB of RAM contact smartcard reader ~2kg weight 11-14" matte, non-glossy screen good keyboard, with separate Home, End, Insert, Delete buttons screen resolution of >=1440 HDMI at least 2x USB2.0 and 1x USB3.0 no optical drive no ... read more →
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I bought a book
I didn't read before. On the Internet. Paying person I don't personally know, basing on his reputation only. Believing he would send me a paper copy of his words from the remote land I've never even visited. On the other hand he trusted me to write ... read more →
How to build minimalistic REST server in .Net
Install "Microsoft ASP.NET Web API Self Host" and all of its dependencies via NuGet. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.We ... read more →
Boosting your WiFi signal with cooking utensils
I love cooking and well made utensils. That is a part of the solution. And the problem ? Boosting WiFi signal. Get WiFi USB dongle and put it where the bowl's focal point is. Or near it, wherever you get strongest signal boost. I get up to 2x stronge ... read more →
Enabling wireless on Dell Latitude 2110 under CrunchBang Linux
Update 2023: crunchbang is no longer a thing, replaced by bunsenlabs Please note that I no longer host this kernel as it is very old and also Crunchbang is no more.** Some time ago I got my hands on CrunchBang Linux distro, which is great. The only ... read more →
Bitcoin wallet recovery using Photorec
Ever cried over damaged disk holding your bitcoin wallet ? Ever formatted storage holding a perfectly valid and the only copy of your wallet.dat ? Yes, me too. Well, there's Photorec, an opensource file recovery software. It just skips the partition ... read more →
Disassembling Pioneer SE-50 headphones
Today's story is a photostory ! Here's how to disassemble Pioneer SE-50 headphones, as I found this task quite difficult, mainly because no info available on the internet on how to open the can from the back. As you can see Pioneer signs on the side ... read more →