I don’t put tape over my webcams, neither on my MacBooks, iOS Devices nor on my Windows machines. I refuse to be like that. If someone was honestly suspecting a malicious attacker would spy on them using their webcam, then I would argue that these people, if they were consistent, would also need to rip out the microphones of their devices.
On the other hand, I’m not that naive to think that there is no risk involved using such input devices.
When the monitor won’t turn off
Sometimes, on my Windows 10 gaming pc, the screen refuses to turn off. After checking every obvious power option I suspected that this had something to do with timers. After searching some more I eventually found the issue: video wake lock.
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I converted a blindingly bright white LED speech bubble with eye-pleasing slow colour changing LEDs.
This time I tried to document the project in video format. You can watch it on YouTube. This is the first published video and overall I’m quite happy with the result. I used an iPad mini as a camera and a Tascam DR-05X with a lavalier microphone for audio. I adjusted the audio slightly in Audacity (high pass filter and noise removal) and edited everything with iMovie.
Modifying an Ikea Light with RGB LEDs
I modified an Ikea LED light with some colour changing LEDs while reusing the original power supply.
Continue reading “Modifying an Ikea Light with RGB LEDs”Using external Media and Downloads in WordPress with Linode Object Storage
After successfully experimenting with a Linode Nanode for a jitsi server I needed a new project. I chose to give Linode Object Storage a try and integrated it for external media and downloads with a download manager plugin in WordPress.
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