Lasagna
This will be the best lasagna you’ve ever made. Pretty much impossible to screw up. This makes a full 13×9″ pan of lasagna, which is about a dozen hearty servings. If you’re not cooking for an army, you can easily Continue reading Lasagna
Solowheel Battery Voltage Monitor
One of my few complaints about the Solowheel is that the battery level indicator sucks. It’s green for “mostly charged,” orange for “partially charged,” and red for “almost dead.” There’s no precise way of knowing just how much juice you’ve got left. Continue reading Solowheel Battery Voltage Monitor
Nexus 7 Car Integration: Anti-theft
Updated October 20, 2014 Software If you’re permanently installing the tablet in your car, or planning to leave it in the car at all, you obviously have a greater-than-zero risk of getting your tablet stolen. In the hands of a Continue reading Nexus 7 Car Integration: Anti-theft
Nexus 7 Car Integration: Software
Updated October 20, 2014 Installing Cyanogenmod Installing Cyanogenmod (CM) is not entirely necessary for this project, but I do recommend it, as it contains some powerful options that will make it a lot easier to get the tablet to behave Continue reading Nexus 7 Car Integration: Software
Nexus 7 Car Integration: Wiring
For the initial phase of this project, I chose to connect the tablet to the car’s head unit via bluetooth for audio out, and rely on a tethered internet connection to stream all my media, so I didn’t have any Continue reading Nexus 7 Car Integration: Wiring
Nexus 7 Car Integration: Mounting
Removing the existing head unit I removed the plastic cover which surrounds the head unit and climate controls, which is accomplished in this car by prying it off with brute force. Not exactly ideal – I’d prefer to remove some Continue reading Nexus 7 Car Integration: Mounting
Nexus 7 Car Integration Project
My car is a Subaru, a 2002 WRX which I bought in 2009. The factory equipped this car with a 6-CD-changing, cassette-playing, double-DIN head unit which was still installed when I bought it, and remained in the car until February Continue reading Nexus 7 Car Integration Project