Gabe’s Soup

Where small furry rodents roam free.

This is my little pied-a-terre on the web where I can give my 2 euro-cents about the world.
Feel free to roam around, everything here is cool.

Conversation Snippet November 6, 2007

Filed under: Musings — Gabe @ 5:40 pm

(23:11:06) Me: and didn’t get let into a bar because….
(23:11:31) Me: we went the wrong way down a one way street, taxis swerving around us, in a dumptster on wheels, and parked the dumpster in front of the bar
(23:11:36) Me: and the doorman was like
(23:11:40) Me: “You can’t come in”
(23:11:43) Me: and we were like “why”
(23:11:50) Me: and he was like “…because you came here in a dumpster”

Ellegua, an RFID access control system (work in progress). October 28, 2007

Filed under: Technical — Tags: door opener, Ellegua, hacks, NSLU2, RC500, RFID — Gabe @ 10:11 am

My rocketry club has a door, and this door has 2 keys. There are 30 members. Needless to say this is a mess.

The answer? RFID reader (based on the RC500) + NSLU2 + Python + SQLLite + 50 MiFare Light RFID cards from Hong Kong! I christen thee Ellegua.

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And we’re back!

Filed under: Musings — Tags: intro, musing — Gabe @ 6:32 am

Finally we return from a one year hiatus of laziness and lack of time. I’m going to be posting mainly project here, but perhaps various musings as well. Stay posted.