tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871807678495811862024-10-07T00:07:52.883-04:00<center>(gædʒɪt-kôr) <i>n.</i> <br> a core set of gadgets used for modifying or customizing.</center><br> Welcome to Gadget-Core! This blog is used to record my gadget modding projects and other tech related hobbies.JP Octaviohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00166022316981705503noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387180767849581186.post-40998901499661627902011-03-10T20:59:00.015-05:002012-12-08T20:39:07.759-05:00

Just received my Lenovo Thinkpad x120e from the mail today. Setting it up as I write this post. The Lenovo Thinkpad x120e is the second iteration of Lenovo's netbook like thinkpads. It comes in around the same size and weight of a netbook, but with a slightly larger 11.1 inch screen. The resolution is a highly usable 1366x768 pix. I purchased my lenovo x120e online straight from the lenovo

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I have been busy learning Javascript this past summer in my attempt to produce an app for Palm Pre's WebOS. I was originally interested in writing an app to view pdf files. I came across some good javascript based pdf viewers like ThinDoc built on Atalasoft AJAX. I was planning out how to write the pdf viewing app when I came across JQuery and Flot. Seeing the potential of Flot, I decided it

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I have lately been interested in the work of Nikola Tesla. I had researched into the work done by Nikola Tesla concerning electricity and was fascinated by his work in the wireless transmission of energy. In Tesla's patent for the "Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums&#134", I found it quite impressive that he had thought of using the earth has an oscillating

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Serious Samurize is a nifty system monitoring program for Windows. The program allows for system information to be displayed right on the desktop. It is similar to widgets, but allows for more robust system monitoring schemes and overlays of image and text files. The program can be found on the serious samurize project website: Samurize.com. Samurize also works on Windows 7, just like on

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1) [END] MSI Wind U100 - My MSI Wind U100 finally kicked the bucket in late April 2010. I have taken it apart and kept the HDD, lcd screen, wifi card, bluetooth module, touchpad, RAM, and touchscreen controller and panel for future hardware hacking. 2) Summer 2010 Gadget Modding Projects - Electrical components for my summer gadget modding projects sadly did not make it during my trip back

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Latest addition to my gadget arsenal is the Nikon D3000. I wanted to get into photography with a simple starter dlsr and chose the Nikon D3000 for it's size and ruggedness. The camera has performed fairly well, as I have used it for the past few months and experimented taking photos in different lighting conditions. I purchased the Nikon D3000 a few months ago while on sale from Newegg and

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I obtained a modded bios thanks to Svet in the MSI HQ forums. I was trying to find a more recent modded bios for the U100 that switched the left ctrl key with the fn key, since I had used a modded bios once with the two keys switched. I found it easier having the ctrl key on the left of the fn key like on a standard keyboard. Since MSI regularly publish bios for the Wind U100, I could no longer

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I replaced the original sentelic touch pad with a synaptic one available from the asus e-store. The mod was fairly easy to do, and it just required a lot of pulling to remove the old touch pad. It was also a fairly cheap mod, as it only cost $17.00 in total. Very satisfied with the vertical side-scrolling of the synaptic touch pad compared to the tapping of sentelic, but will require

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Enlarge Thumbwin is a free software that enables you to add small thumbnails of minimized windows in your desktop. It's a cool little app for arranging your open browsers and is fun to use with a touch screen. It's an old app that I installed from a while ago. I haven't been using it much, but it helps out in organizing your open browsers. Thumbwin can be downloaded directly from the

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SparkFun will be holding a "free day" on January 7, 2010 starting from 9:00 am MST. It looks to be quite exciting as they are offering $100 worth of free items for anyone purchasing using their paypal account or credit. The "free day" will go from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm MST, or until 100K worth of free items have been given away. Hoping to get into the action so I'll be setting my alarm clock

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Added a pair of tiny speakers to the bottom of the MSI Wind screen. I figured I could easily attach a pair of speakers to the existing ones since the audio signal is analog. Basically I took a pair of used earphones and opened them up to get to the tiny speakers inside. Cut off each speaker with the wires still attached and soldered each end to the main board where the computer speakers

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If you're wondering what the square with all the dots is, it's a QR Code that you can scan using your cellphone. All you need is a QR Code reader application installed on your phone and you're all set. I use the Kaywa Reader on my phone, but there are others out there, such as i-nigma or BeeTagg. You can easily make your own QR codes with a link to a website or an encoded message by using

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Designed some Nokia S40 themes for my Nokia 3110 classic cellphone. I have about 5 complete custom themes that I made so far. They are - Metallic, Vista, Wood, Haiku, and Sea Blue. I haven't been using my old nokia cellphone much, since I use a newer one, but I still use it as a standalone mp3 player. Just added some links to the files so you can download them. The themes work best on Series

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I bought the MSI Wind U100 as an auxiliary laptop. I originally had no intentions of modifying it until I first tried installing a touchscreen. Since then I've been modding it and other gadgets for the fun of it. I have so far added the following: 1) Touchscreen panel (obtained the plastic type for better reliability) 2) Usb controller with space for 3 more usb devices 3) Dual boot -

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