Got Some Leds.

My keyboard died today T_T. After I got threw complainig about having to use the Keyboard That My IBM ThinkCenter came with which is extremely inferior to my other keyboard. I have To Wait until next summer to get some cash flow or maybe instead of my PS3 slim I can see how for I can get with $500 on my planned phenom II x3 ATI Crossfire Set-up and 4 gig of ram. The Biggest Issue Is I want A better Monitor than This piece I have Now(HOLD THAT THOUGHT) But ain't gonna happen with this dang old economy. However my impatience and desperation Will Definately Lead to another Project.(DID you hold he thought my next project is I'm gonna try To Build one one of those projectors they make wth crt monitoprs a box and a fresnel lens, and see how full of crap that it is.)

Project Update

As an update to my head phones project i finally have it all sorted out on how to finish what I started. My course of acions will be a simple vacuum forming machine. This will be perfect for shaping the intricate pices of my project. When I finnally get to that I will closely blog it.

Got Some Leather

I sacrificed An Old jacket for the Leather(supposedly leather) to use For my headphones project To make some nice padding. Not only that but the white leather sections are on deck to be resurrected to make some nice case for future projects. I don't have a picture of it because I haven't done anything with it yet. My side project will be making A nice "white leather" Zune HD case.

Cat 5 a success

I tried again with cat5 and it worked Great. I will use cat 5 for my noise cancelling project and use the extra wire for baterries. I like The extra head room the cat5 gives me.

1 Step Forward 2 Steps Back

Today I got started with soldering cutting time and cost by using crappy wire from those god forsaken dollar store headphones. The wire was so crappy the wires melted trying to solder and not only that but they were so thin they snaped nearly instntely. I'll try again tommorow using some CAT 5 and hopefully it will come out better.

Craigslist Ballin

Okay last summer the excitement of my first real job made me go a little nuts with spending and I made some Foolish purchases. However a silver lining is now i have plenty collteral. With the upcoming Zune HD and In my previous post I mentioned that I had to get my hands on one, I now can sell all of my shamefully unwise spending and use it to buy yet again a piece of technology to be phased out by something better in 3 months(ahem iPhone) but a true gadget head like myself has come to terms withthat long ago. So now my only issue is safely selling using craigslist. One thing I will use to my advantage to prevent becoming a headline is meeting people at locations near law enforcement like hospitals and police stations. Let's all hope this goes well and I get enough money to buy me next time sucker.

First Blogged Project

My project is to make my own headphones. When I say head phone I don't mean Crappy O.E.M. ones i mean I'm fixing to make a relatively decent sounding pair. It's going to definitely take a little bit for a project as ambitious as I'm shooting for to be done. I plan on before the year ends making three pairs. The first pair a relatively low end on era style, the second pair a somewhat high end active noise cancelling set which will be carefully done and I expect to take a while. The third pair, a high quality and advanced wireless set using a 1" bass driver and a mid range and high driver. This set is going to utilize large noise isolating ear pads similar to ones used on the Sony MDR-XB500 headphones. The electronics can be done in one day with my skill level of electronics. The first milestone has been made. I purchased all of the drivers needed for the on-ear and noise cancelling sets. The electronics for the on earset can be whipped together in just five minutes. The first thing to do is solder any old LED onto the driver to give a nice back lit effect. After a gather more materials for the noise cancelling set testing and tuning (if all of the stars are aligned) will immediately begin. The second hardest part of this project is definitely the construction of the headset. I'm in the process of figuring out how they will be built. An aluminum construction is being thought about. There is no shortage scrap metal to be found in my basement alone all left to do is figure out how to cut it and bend it to fit my needs. This is alot to go through just to get Good sound from a Zune HD.

Trip to Best Buy

At best Buy I had a chance to try out a few new things most notably and relevent Wii Motion plus. The Wii motion plus worked and i could tell immediately. I could actually tell the controller was actually capture my movements in 3D space rather than detecting motions. The booth was set up ready to go with Wii Sports Resort. The first thing i tried was wakeboarding (having actually tried it this past week)I had a frame of reference to what it felt like and knew what it should act like. I was impressed by the intuitiveness of the new add on in the way that the presets motions were so good in this particular game it could be easily mistaken for true 1:1 motion. The game felt extremely natural and didn't feel as if i had to jerk the controller to get it to register the difference was day and night in this particular instance. the motion was smooth and easy. Next I tried basketball. This game was very well done. the motion capture actually registered like actually taking a shot in real life. Finally my favorite game Ping pong (or table tennis whatever) felt the most natural unlike other supposed ping pong simulators on Wii that i have played it felt like i was whipping the controller rather than actually doing what you would do in real life. This was the first time i actually enjoyed playing Wii.
I also had oppurtunity to test different headphones. I tried the extremely acclaimed as much as it is overpriced, Beats by D.R.E. The sound quality wasvery nice and i di enjoy it however i could never see paying more than $50 for headphones (I'm a Cheapskate) Let alone 300. First of all they cost more than the MP3 player itself and for that much they better do alot more than just play music. I Want more than a flashy package underneath that packaging i want bluetooth a remote control (more portability.) thats about all worth talking about.

HTC NVIDIA Tegra phone a possibility

I am excited for this because there is almost just enough evidence to confirm this. If this turns out as good as it sounds on paper I will be in line. However at the same time i cant forget about HTC's habit of refusing to include drivers and effectively crippling there phones. If this is an answer to Samsung's Omnia, then it Definately is a good one. Possibly 600 mhz processor and a WVGA screen touch screen. not too shabby at all if you ask me. But there is potential for them to screw this up like they did with the Qualcomm chipset where performance was crippled to cut costs. The fact that HTC had the opportunity to get a jump on the competition at the time(HTC kaiser was released the same year as the iphone with hardware well capable of being superior to iPhone) however the phone's showstopping video performance issue ruined a huge opportunity. I would Hope HTC plans on making this phone with 3d performance even if it hikes up the price an extra 20 dollars That was proven buy people paying $600 dollars for the iPhone. So we will have to see which company wants my money the most upcoming Q3 and 4 2009. I would love to own a tegra chipset in HTC flavor because of how happy I was with my HTC Juno (T-Mobile Shadow)do to the impressive build quality and all of the HTC proprietary features. However after seeing the impressive work Samsung put into The Omnia and new Omnia II, where the phone was pushed to it's full potential (too bad i can't exactly say that about all HTC products) Their phone might be the better performing of the two. It also helps that the Samsung phones i have seen in the past were impressive in performance. Finally Their is Motorola. I hope Moto brings their mojo with the Tegra chipset the same way they steadily deliver high performance high quality products. I f you don't believe me think of how many people you know that had razors and how much you wanted one. Now think about How now even a few years later razor isn't that bad a phone. So for now all i can do is speculate and believe me when these phones come out I'm gonna be all over them and unveil my true personality on my blog with my harsh and extremely critical reviews for the 3 people who will even read it to see.

NVIDIA Tegra chipset

This new powerful chipset is the inexpensive solution to 3D graphics issues in mobile devices. In the united states we can see the Tegra chipset utilized in the Microsoft Zune HD. I'm undecided on if i will buy the Zune HD but it is tempting i do want a product with this. The Zune HD will come in 32 gig and 16 gig at almost value price points of (Unconfirmed information)$220, and $280 U.S. Already sounds better to me than ipod touch. I just wish MS would just go ahead and add an antenna and make it a cell phone i would buy in a heart beat.

Using My Blog For Tech.

finally finding a niche is nice nobobdy reads this but maybe close friends and random people coming of of google. On the blog now technology news. or whatever left field things i want