What's the geekiest thing you did this week?

Hey everyone, geekiest thing i did today was make a solar powered USB charger!

What about you?

 

Checked the MG forums.

 

Installed a ceiling fan. :-D

 

Invented something I call a pocket protector.

 

Can last Friday count?
If so, then I installed a few machines for my local hospital while on a job shadow there for my one college class.

 

Pictures?

I made one too,uses 16 small panels to absorb the light from a large bright light source and turns it into a small dim light source, I call it the Idimmer.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/Rikky_/DSCF2657.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/Rikky_/DSCF2658.jpg

Seriously though the current from these small panels sucked so I abandoned the project.

Geekiest thing this week would be to talk about my mini solar panel array to a complete stranger.

 

It's only Monday, so I'm going to save my answer until more of the week has gone by. You never know what I might get up to, stuck here immobile at home with a bunch of pain meds. :-D

 

Built another PC from collected e-waste.

Can't find it in me to sell them though. Parts cost zero dollars, so I just give them to people who need one, or need an upgrade from their current dinosaur.

It doesn't make any money, but it's fun, and it feels good when you see them smile.

:major

 

I cut the basic silhouette target in half, and shot assuming the bad guy was half behind a wall.

Target shooting of course.

You asked. :-D

 

Today, umm rooted 3 phones for people. People who have zero need or understanding of why but just wanted it so they could be in the cool crowd. Didn't even install cyan or any other rom... Yesterday, wasn't actually geeky but more handy. Installed rear wheel bearings in '97 Ford Probe.

 

Re-calibrated and installed the software for some Varian Spectra 2020's Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers. ~ Finished the contract, (after 10 months) for the torpedo guidance project for the Dept. of Defense. Nothing out of the ordinary for me.

 

Now I know who to call when mine needs calibrated, I hate when it's out of spec...

**Actually googled Varian, seems they do a lot in the medical field.

 

Good effort though man.

My handy work wasn't as ambitious as yours. In effect I was customizing a minty boost by attaching a solar panel to it. It works, although charging anything takes ages.

The pic is attached.

 

Of course! Its all about the love of the game. My solar panel costs about the same as one out of the box but it was the challenge of making it and the satisfaction of seeing it work. Plus the smugness :-D

 

Hung out in the MG forums Lounge.

:major

 

Reprogrammed a 5kw radio transmitter sunday morning after a power failure, and then generator failure. Ksal 1150 Am, in the kansas area.

 

Installed a copy of Windows Server 2008 on a VM in class, freaked out and went all technical on a game forum (bad day today).

 

Geekiest thing... I ordered stuff online. Does that count? LOL

Ooooh I was eyeballing a Windows 8 phone too, although I usually never buy phones when they just come out because they are way too expensive.

 

So probably this doesn't technically count as geeky, but I finished decorating my knee scooter, which will be the only way I'm allowed to "walk" for the next four or so months. :-D

I also ordered battery-operated lights and a bow to match the holiday ribbon I bought to decorate it for Christmas, too.

 

Thank you! I figured if it was going to effectively be a part of me for several months, I had to do something. Plus, I needed a basket to carry stuff. LOL

 

I watched the gameplay of the Walking Dead on youtube instead of playing it lol

 

LoL!...I can just imagine you motoring down the sidewalks, hair in ponytails and singing "Tra, la, La, la!" - whilst off your head on Oxy's!....roflmao

 

I've been having just a little bit too much fun with it, and I've not even left the house yet! LOL Oxy is actually a step down from the combination of things I've got for this first week.

 

Of course he means he voted for you! :-D

My friend's sister had one of those for a few months when she got in an accident. Hers wasn't nearly as pretty as yours is though.

 

Not terribly geeky, but I did switch my unlocked iPhone 4 from AT&T to StraightTalk Monday. So far, so good . . . but I still can't do Multi-media texting. My geekier son tells me he can fix that for me, though.

Not that I did a lot of MulitMedia texting anyway . . . plain texting, sure, and I can do that still. Happy so far

 

" but I still can't do Multi-media texting."

I don't even know what that is. :confused

:-D

 

Still fighting with Windows Server 2008.

 

Did some more research concerning the item in this thread...

Also (due to the recent 5 November attacks) tried to find out more info about Anonymous and ALF.

 

Pulled a 14 month old 3Tb enterprise drive from my 7 bay Thecus Pro NAS because it had failed :cry
The drive still works OK as an external drive but not as RAID 5 in the NAS as the S.M.AR.T. details and drive type info are corrupt. Ran SeaTools over it and found it needed the firmware drive type reset because the information was now in advanced characters that can't be displayed This leads the BIOS to report the drive maker and drive type as unknown and it also reports unknown serial and part numbers plus S.M.A.R.T. is disabled as is last block reporting so I first did a low level format and then upgraded the firmware to the current version. Checked again with SeaTools and now everything is OK. Hot swapped the drive back into the NAS and 12 hours later everything is reimaged and the the Thecus OS is reporting all RAID drives 100% healthy :-D :cool :major

Now it is POETS day so my work is done LOL

 

I got a new phone. Samsung Galaxy S3.

 

New geekiest thing: Read an awesome book called: How to write and design web pages today, by Karl Stolley.

It's a fascinating read whether you're trying to build a website, or if you're just into the bits and pieces that make one up. It explains why the things do what they do to generate all the content we take for granted. I like it. A lot.

 

I think that's the phone my wife just got . . . she loves it so far

I didn't either till I got my first smart phone. It's sending pictures and videos via text messages. I could do it before with AT&T, but there is a setting that is not easily accessed with StraightTalk on an unlocked or un-jailbroken phone. My son says there is a trick that can be used with a t-mobile SIM card but we haven't had a chance to try it yet.

 

Hey, Triaxx2...

I'm going to offer my standard mantra here about web pages - don't know if Stolley touched on it, but if not, he should have.

 

Collected every scrap of info I could on computer punch cards from web sites. Downloaded the pics as well. Made a PDF of the stuff for own amusement.

Then spent time looking to buy blank punch cards. Seems $20/dozen is the going price. I want to make personilized geek cards with them to give to friends. Both of them...

 

He didn't quite put it that way, but he did touch on it.

 

Conducted for the school Marching Band, and got a job for a huge datacenter. (more info to follow!)

 

Started putting together several gift guides for the website I work for. Not anything out of the ordinary, but this year I'm doing one for alternative gifts...tech and gadgets that benefit developing countries, animals, or people while still letting you have something to put under the tree. I'm really kind of excited about this one. :-D

 

Got 3 machines to (am) work on, hoping to get a bit of spare cash from it so I can replace the motherboard in my desktop.

 

Installed OpenBSD 5.2 on an older box this afternoon. Waiting for a replacement PC to arrive. OpenBSD runs lean and fast.

 

Checked on my local computer shop's website to get a copy of Windows 8 and there were 3 in stock so went down to pick one up and they were sold out

 

-1 geek point for for buying software from an actual shop.
-1 geek point for leaving the house.

:-D

Nah, I like having actual disks for games.

 

Hehehe thought ya caught me out eh Rikky roflmao Not so fast :-D
Boss is paying for my win 8 copy and had to go out to pick up pizza because no deliveries in the daytime and had run out of two minute noodles LOL

 

Well at least it was pizza and not an actual meal or it would be -1, going out to get pizza is neutral.

:-D

This scoring system is has been proven scientifically to have an accuracy of 92.36% if you didn't know this -1 geek point :-D