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argilo – Clayton's Domain
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The personal website of Clayton Smith. Reverse engineering a ceiling fan. Tonight I was visiting a friend of mine, and noticed a strange looking switch on the wall. My friend explained that it was a wireless controller for his ceiling fan. Since we’re both radio geeks, and I happened to have my BladeRF. With me, I got the idea to reverse engineer it. The next step was to check what modulation scheme the controller used. Most simple devices like this are using either on-off keying. Off: 101101100101100100...
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Making the Raspberry Pi a little less British – Clayton's Domain
http://www.irrational.net/2012/04/18/making-the-raspberry-pi-less-british
The personal website of Clayton Smith. Making the Raspberry Pi a little less British. After a month and a half of obsessively checking for status updates, I finally received my Raspberry Pi. Yesterday. I love it! The first thing I noticed after booting up the stock Debian image was that things are set up for British users. Most annoyingly, the symbols on the keyboard weren’t where I expected them to be. To arrive at a more Canadian configuration, I did the following. Next, I changed the keyboard layout:.
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April 2012 – Clayton's Domain
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The personal website of Clayton Smith. Moving from Tomboy to Gnote in Ubuntu 12.04. Yesterday I updated from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. As usual, I did a completely fresh install, only copying over the things I still need. Tomboy is at the top of that list, so I copied over my. Fisrt, I added gnote to the systray whitelist:. Gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Update-notifier', 'gnote']". Next, I set Gnote to auto-start:. April 27, 2012. April 27, 2012.
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Uncategorized – Clayton's Domain
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The personal website of Clayton Smith. Reverse engineering a ceiling fan. Tonight I was visiting a friend of mine, and noticed a strange looking switch on the wall. My friend explained that it was a wireless controller for his ceiling fan. Since we’re both radio geeks, and I happened to have my BladeRF. With me, I got the idea to reverse engineer it. The next step was to check what modulation scheme the controller used. Most simple devices like this are using either on-off keying. Off: 101101100101100100...
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