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Welcome,

This site is my public internet playground / sandbox for messing around with stuff, mainly electronics and all kinds of hardware related hobby projects. For some weird reason I have had the time to create some content that may be of some interest (at least to somebody).

The new site layout is very minimalistic and, as before, it sucks and will definitely keep doing so, but hopefully not as much. The language was also swapped from Finnish to English (except the blog).

Enjoy your stay,

-Lauri
Page updates / news:

27/05/2011   Added DIY geiger counter data output page.
26/03/2011   Switched from HTML 4.01 -> HTML5. Hopefully everything works like they are supposed to....
17/02/2011   Fixed some nasty error logging issues in some scripts that started after upgrading to newer PHP version and removed IE5 & 6 specific stuff from Sajax 0.13 due to JavaScript errors caused by recent IE 7 & 8 updates.
11/02/2011   Swapped the whole server hardware to older tech with RAID 0 & 1 hard disk setup for reliability. Some stuff here might not work as expected....
22/01/2011   New additions to the battery test page. Weather station has suffered some serious downtime due to malfunctioning USB -> Serial converter. I have replaced the converter and everything seems to be fine for now.
19/11/2010   Blog script replaced with a slightly simpler one. Fixed buggy php scripts and added some gfx.
17/11/2010   Added some new specimens to the battery test page. I will also be replacing the blog script soon as the MySQL database section that held the timestamps went haywire for reasons unknown.
04/07/2010   The server PSU suffered a pretty epic failure this morning with a small explosion and some smoke. It also overloaded my UPS effectively shutting down all the stuff that were behind it. I replaced the PSU right away with some old crappy second hand unit I had lying around.
30/05/2010   1-Wire adapter fixed (it had a shorted protection diode). Weather station wind instrument is also back online.
23/05/2010   Thunderstorm killed the weather station 1-Wire adapter (bus master). I hope to get it fixed soon....
02/05/2010   Finally managed to build a bird nest box with webcam + IR illumination. The box cam can be viewed from the webcam page.
30/04/2010   Network connection has returned back to "normal" again, but for how long....that remains to be seen. Added some damn fugly B/W graphics to enhance general visual appearance...
29/04/2010   The whole site is now running through crappy GPRS wireless backup connection as our main connection is down again due to some ISP related hardware problems. Expect some serious slowness....
15/04/2010   Fixed some stupid bugs and annoyances from GPS data page. This thing might actually work now....
11/04/2010   Added a page that outputs the current local GPS service state.
16/03/2010   After being offline for almost one two three weeks now, our internet connection has finally been restored! The time it took for the ISP and their subcontractors to fully restore the connection and all the previous connection problems really reflect the poor level of our network upkeep and the overall state of our not-so-slowly deteriorating network infrastructure. And yes, for some reason Finland is considered (or at least advertised) to be one of the most advanced "information societies" in the world.


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