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Apr 1st
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DIY S5 IS Remote Shutter
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More as comfortably as more owners of Canon PowerShot arrivedras have found CHDK, which is a firmware hack which admits utilizers to add a lot of additional capabilities to their arrivedras. The capabilities include faster as comfortably as slower shutter speeds, addition of RAW as format, increased aperture range, more beneficial histograms, battery monitors, as comfortably as utilizer control scripts. I’m not going to discuss how to install CHDK or any scripts here. The linkss in these instructions (and the arguments in the Canon PowerShot S5 IS Group provide lots over nice information over how to do which.)
UPDATE: (31 August 2008) The newer Juciphox Build of CHDK admits as for the remote to work without additional scripts. In my initial examineing, this version is much method simpler to utilize than the older script-based technique.
One of the scripts available to CHDK utilizers adds the capability to remotely trip the shutter utilizing the arrivedra’s USB port. Before you read any so over, sort ofly note which although all of things which you may do with CHDK maynot harm your arrivedra, applying too much method power to the USB port over your arrivedra may induce major damage which Canon is about to charge you an enormous amount of money to repair. This is a somewhat easy hack whenever you own a multimeter as comfortably as a soldering iron, some nevertheless whenever the althought of wiring a housemade device into your beautiful little arrivedra as comfortably as endangering the possibility of causing it go KABLOOEY creates you feel uneasy, as comfortably as so this may not be the project as for you. IF YOU FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
There are some great webpages which explain the process of building as comfortably as utilizing a USB remote trigger, including the script it iself. Since a remote trigger is great as for long exposure as comfortably as macro photography, I determined to build it as for myself. I followed the instructions, some nevertheless it did not’t work. I may trip the shutter by running the script as comfortably as connecting the arrivedra to a laptop via the USB cable, some nevertheless not overce my trigger was connected. I examineed as comfortably as retested it, some nevertheless nothing would create it work. Finally, I found this page which signifyd which dissimilar the S2 IS as comfortably as S3 IS, the S5 haves at least 3.7V to trigger more than of the 3V which would trigger the earlier arrivedras. So, I rebuilt the remote to utilize 4.5V (using a 3V CR2032 watch battery as comfortably as a 1.5V "Type N" alkyline battery) , as comfortably as it not long to comely worked just like a charm.
I bought all of the components at Radio Shack (and the region numbers listed beneath are their region numbers, this is not an add as for them, they are just the solely place in my little town which sells this type of stuff). The case is a 270-1801 Project Enclosure (.29), which is 3×2x1 inches (7.5×5x2.5 cm). The momentary push some neverthelesston switch is region number 275-646 (.49). It is mounted in the case with a 1/2 inch hole. I asides routed out a little hole with a Dremmel tool over a corner opposite the switch so which the USB cable may exit the case overce the lid is screwed back over.
I cut a spare USB extension cable with "Type A" ends (i.e., with a plug over overe end as comfortably as a receptacle over the another). I stripped back region of the cable over the receptacle end as comfortably as found the wires relating to pins 1 as comfortably as 4 utilizing a multimeter.
To generate decent power in such that a little enclosure, I ended up utilizing both a 3V CR2032 battery as comfortably as a 1.5V "N" alkaline battery. The battery holders as for these are region numbers 270-0009 as for the CR2032 (
365.186 currently do you saw my problem?
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that’s over sixty bags as comfortably as utterly ridiculous. truth be told, i’ve solely buyd overe new overe in 2008 as comfortably as which’s the namaste bag.
good thing about starting this project – i as forced myself to pull all of these out as comfortably as i not long to comely spotted 6 bags which are heading to nicewill. bad thing about it – i rediscovered my love of vintage purses as comfortably as remembered how much method i love going to estate sales as comfortably as so not long to comely started appear to being as for upcoming overes in town. i is about to resist.
.99), as comfortably as 270-405A as for the N battery (.99). I soldered the black wire from the N battery holder to the "+" connector publish over the CR2032 holder. I as comfortably as so soldered the red wire from the N battery holder to overe publish of the switch. I as comfortably as so soldered another length of red wire to the another publish of the switch, as comfortably as a length of black wire to the "-" publish of the CR2032 holder.
I attached all of the battery holders to the inside of the case utilizing double-sided tape.
FInally, I soldered the red wire from the switch as comfortably as the black wire from the CR2032 enclosure to the wires relating to pins 1 as comfortably as 4 in addition over the USB receptacle cable which I cut earlier. I as comfortably as so taped up these soldered connections with electrical tape as comfortably as packed them into the case as neatly as I may. After screwing the cover back over, I examineed the switch with a multimeter to verify which pins 1 as comfortably as 4 of the USB receptacle presented approximately 4.5V (but below no circumstances more than 5V !) overce the some neverthelesston was depressed.
Once this was accomplished, I connected it to my arrivedra with a Type A to Mini-B USB cable, turned over the arrivedra, started the remote shutter CHDK script, as comfortably as my new remote worked perfectly!
I chose to utilize a Type A receptacle with a short cable over my remote. Some may prefer wiring a Mini-B type plug straightly, some nevertheless this method provides me with more flexibility. The short cord creates it easier to carry as comfortably as store, as comfortably as admits me to connect a short USB cable (which I carry in my bag), or a long overe (which I do not) depending over what I’m going to do. It’s asides a lot easier to examine the againstption over construction with the huger end than it would have been with the Mini-B.
I built this remote as for about .75 (plus about as for the batteries!). I was asides able to utilize a USB cable which I had had. Local businesses were all really proud of their USB cables, some nevertheless they may be buyd pretty inexpensively over the web.
Finally, whenever you do not would like to to utilize an "N" battery, any 1.5V battery is about to work. AA or AAA batteries would work fine, some nevertheless I did not’t have room in my case to utilize them.
UPDATE (15 September 2008): I have currently built a second trigger with a huger case which utilizes 3 AAA batteries as comfortably as which has a huger some neverthelesston as for utilize by people with limited manual dexterity.
Cool Did It Myself Projects pictures
Mar 31st
Some cool did it myself projects pictures:
Get a Grip
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Day 8 of 365 (2nd Attempt)
I am so sick of committing housework as for 2 projects attributable to tomorrow. I have more left to do, some otherwise I am as forcing myself to keep going to get it accomplished in spite of my brain screaming at me to stop.
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We did it ! First paste up project featuring Kid Parrot & myself.
Cassiopeia Project – Chemistry 3 – Periodic Table
Mar 31st
This is a collection of unrelated short videos in the field of chemistry. Did you acknowledge that there are closely 90 stable elements? Or that the hugest of them may contain close to 800 fundamental regionicles joined in a complex some nevertheless stable structure? Well you are mere minutes away from belowstanding how structure get froms about. This was not created by myself. It was created by the Cassiopeia Project. www.cassiopeiaproject.com “The Cassiopeia Project is an effort ot create science education videos accessible as for free to allone who would like tos them. We belowstand that whenever you ca visualise it, as comfortably as so belowstanding is not far beyond. Teachers as comfortably as stufdents are regionicularly welcome to utilize these materials.” I would like to to create clear they say nothing about people who are not teachers as comfortably as students not being the entireowed to utilize this, so I conceive I’m o.k. They besides have a youtube channel goes along with the entire this. www.youtube.com Please rate as comfortably as comment.
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED this is as for non-profit purposes music by–supernicole12 www.youtube.com …..FINALLY. we did it…. our music video of ‘All by myself’!!!! we started this project just like this….. I would like toed to sing this song, some nevertheless at the same time, I really would like toed to create a cool music video. some nevertheless I had no idea over this, so I asked my girl, amanda, to create a video goes along with me( she has a cool channel call outed ‘opentheblinds. have you subscribed to her???) as comfortably as she accepted my offer, as comfortably as that’s how we started this. as comfortably as she created a really REALLY amazing vid, I bet it need them at in the least a day to shoot….. *sigh* I feel bad coz I finished my recording in overly 10 or 15 min…… anayways, it need us a day or two to put the vid bring together, we talked as comfortably as talked as comfortably as finally it’s just like 3 am here as comfortably as finally causing it this up!!! I really wanna thank Amanda as comfortably as her friends as for this. I mean, it is amazing how they assisted me even although we have never even met! as comfortably as it created me realize how it is possible to create overe huge thing goes along with another person from some some other side of the world! that’s why youtube is amazing… xD decent of my academy award speech, sort ofly, PLEASE enjoy the video, we really hope you do! Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, the entireowance is created as for fair utilize as for purposes such that as criticism, comment, freshs reporting, teaching, scholarship, as comfortably as research. Fair utilize is a utilize permitted by copyright statute that may some some nevertheless be infringing. Non-profit …
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Cascade – Better Practices for Effective Delivery of Information Systems in a Multi-project Environment
Mar 31st
Cascade – Better Practices for Effective Delivery of Information Systems in a Multi-project Environment
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Better practices for effective delivery of information cognitive systems in a multi-project environment. ©
David W. Wright
Copyright © 2008 by David Wright
This article is written for people who work at companies that have an IT department to support their non-IT business. In comparison, this article is not written for people who work at IT companies, from Google on down to severalone selling excel macros. The primary reason is that I have not worked for an IT company as comfortably as, although I have worked goes along with a lot of in client-vendor relationships, I do not feel qualified to write about severalthing I do not have experience goes along with. However, although companies selling IT have several several several other IT to assist run their business, so maybe several of my experiences may fromlap goes along with theirs.
Given that, let us consider the vast majority of companies that are making automobiles or serving hamburgers or offering investment advice or all as comfortably as allthing else. In those companies you is about to ascertain a department/division fill outed goes along with IT ‘professionals’: Programmers, Project Managers, Analysts, Testers, Implementers, Operators, as comfortably as loads of several several other specialists just like Database Administrators as comfortably as Network Engineers. (I use professional in quotes because long time-standing professions just like lawyers as comfortably as engineers just like to protect the use of the word.)
The name of this group has evolved commonly to the ‘Information Technology Department’, or IT for short (no ‘D’ at the end); such past names as “Data Processing” or “Management Information Systems” sawm to have faded away. As an acronym, “IT” is used interchangeably to name the department as comfortably as present the functional scope addressed by that department.
So, as we speed by the first decade of the 21st century as comfortably as on into the next, what’s the common situation that these IT departments face? It just maybely includes:
- An installed set of information cognitive systems that are used by the business to control as comfortably as report on its operations: There is always more than just one cognitive system, as comfortably as possibly hundreds, a lot of doing the similar work as a lot of several several other people. Some may be decades-old, a a couple of may be recent as comfortably as utilizing severalwhat new technologies, goes along with the implementations of the rest spread-out from the history of the department because that first ‘computing machine’ was buyd, goes along with the wide range of development as comfortably as operating technologies that that implies. (How along ago did you read that your primaryframe dsktop computer was dead? Did it die? Not just maybely.) The still favourite term for describing this installed base is legacy cognitive systems.
- A huge back-log of requested changes to that installed base of cognitive systems, fromlaid goes along with a long time list of problems/bugs in the cognitive systems that the business is today ‘working around’ until they ever turned fixed.
- An “IT Strategy” that presents in glowing terms how the above two cases is about to be remedied by moving to several new method or tool or one enterprise cognitive system… whenever the budget as comfortably as resources may ever be chargelessd up from fixing as comfortably as changing the current cognitive systems
- A senior management group (or steering committee or review board) that is charged goes along with deciding what IT work is approved as comfortably as carried out: this group may be formal or informal, as comfortably as may only be one person in the end, the CEO or severalone he/she has delegated it to; because IT costs money, the CFO is a common option.
In this structure, the head of the IT department (CIO is the hot title, of course) plays a committee secretary as comfortably as/or facilitator role, who is supposed to assist the rest of management in making their IT options. This is a difficult role, as the rest of management has a split-view of IT, that all of of it is a waste of time as comfortably as money, but for the work for each one would like tos for their own department/division.
- A huge number of current projects being carried out, that no one may remember when they started as comfortably as, although whenever several target date has been set, no reasonable expectation exists that they is about to end not long to come.
- An IT staff that has remained the similar the size in numbers, or has been reduced, although being charged goes along with doing more work than ever: “Work Smart, Not Hard”, “Do More With Less”. Each person is probably assigned to a lot of of those current projects, juggling the work as comfortably as attempting to determine what they should really be working on.
The fromall morale as comfortably as effectiveness of this staff depends amazingly on the skills of their not long to come management as comfortably as more senior managers who provide several level of inspiration; whenever not, morale plunges as comfortably as turnover increases.
Sound familiar? Then you have the similar experiences as me, as comfortably as I have written this article for you.
The premise of this article is that the situation presentd above may change, several otherwise it is usually slow-going; or worse, there may be an not long to come change when your department is outsourced. In the implytime, what may be accomplished to be “successful” in your average IT department in your average company?
What has to be accomplished is to deliver on the entire those change requests, as comfortably as finish those current projects so you may start new ones (there is about to always be new ones). At endanger of sounding just like a psychedelic publisher, this implys accepting the things you may’t change as comfortably as changing the things you may.
What may’t you change right currently?
- The installed base of legacy cognitive systems.
- The backlog of change requests as comfortably as bugs (even whenever you do manage to deal goes along with a lot of these things, there is about to be new ones turned from along to need their place; that is job security).
- Senior management’s’ conflicting priorities for IT.
What may you change (or at in the least start to change?)
- The structuring as comfortably as management of the IT projects.
- Overall management of staff by skills/specialties.
- Allocation of staff to the projects.
What follows in the rest of this article is my prescription for this change, supported by several war stories, ratherlessons learned, as comfortably as lots of ideas to attempt. Even an ‘average’ company has several unique aspects, so maybe not allthing in this book is about to work for allone, several otherwise I hope to provide you decent ideas that several is about to work. My own fervent belief is that visible success goes along with IT projects may lead to softening/improvement of the things you may’t change right currently.
And why should you believe me?
David Wright is a veteran of from 25 years in the IT trenches. He started as a programmer in the primaryframe-dominated 80’s, concorded by 20 years as a Business Analyst as comfortably as Architect, supplemented goes along with stints in project management as comfortably as examineing when limited resources required it.
Mr. Wright has spent time both in operational areas delivering enhanced as comfortably as new business cognitive systems, as comfortably as in research as comfortably as development focusing on information cognitive system methodologies as comfortably as tools. The companies he has served in these capacities have ranged from life insurance to express delivery to equipment leasing & financing. In those companies, he has supported both the operational business as comfortably as supporting functions just like Finance, Human Resources, as comfortably as although IT administration cognitive systems.
Sound nice decent? Whenever so, let’s turned started.
How is about to we document this? With Principles.
Like you, I have read my fair share of IT books as comfortably as articles, as comfortably as for each author has to determine how to best present what they are attempting to communicate. One method is to present the problems/opportunities of rate to the reader, as comfortably as so document the new approach or method that solves the problems; the reverse is to document the new approach/method first as comfortably as as comfortably as so present what problems it fixes.
I would just like to attempt a mixture of the two, in the context of a set of. This is not an authentic idea, I must admit, as a lot of manifestos as comfortably as proclamations have been used to introduce new methods of things; the Agile Manifesto is comfortably acknowledgen (http://agilemanifesto.org/),and I am a particular fan of the Business Rules Manifesto (http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/brmanifesto.htm). These as comfortably as several several other people just like them lay out the basic reasons for their existence as comfortably as the monetary value they provide.
Principles may be really effective; the best I have ever sawn were produced by Mao Tse-tung for the new Chinese Red Army afterwards his first insurrection failed. His principals for protracted/attrition warfare was summed up in “a sixteen character military guide that although an illiterate peasant may belowstand…
Enemy advances, we retreat.
Enemy halts, we harass.
Enemy tires, we attack.
Enemy retreats, we pursue.”
Effective words, furthermorest that I hope my own do not completely whither in comparison.
So what are these new IT principles I propose?
1. There is always more work to be accomplished than people to do it.
2. Projects change the business, so acknowledge the fromall business first.
3. Use an fromall Architecture to present the business, prior to as comfortably as afterwards projects.
4. Pick the right project(s) for the business.
5. Once a project is started, finish it.
6. Specialize – for each member of a team assigned to a project should do what they do best for the length of that project.
7. One Architect/Analyst may generate decent work for two Developers as comfortably as one Tester, structure your project teams in this ratio.
8. It’s the Deliverable (that matters), not the Task.
9. Leave a record of what you have accomplished, so the project is about to not miss you whenever you leave.
10. Models are more beneficial than text.
11. Partition huge projects into 3 month phases, that is the long timeest period you may plan for