Month: November 2012

Round 2 of 3d printer builds kicks off today

Peter has been working day and night to prepare for round 2 of the 3d printer builds.  The first round saw most people completing PrintrBots and it seems that the Ecksbot has found some favour in this round.  There is also a couple of custom builts and hackers were given these four options when enrolling:…

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RTLSDR

We ordered these Videomate U620F through PC Palace (ask for Pierre) in a group buy – 16 units for R180 per unit. In order to receive Tuks FM 107.2 MHz using gnuradio, I followed these steps: Installed gnuradio using this script: wget http://www.sbrac.org/files/build-gnuradio && chmod a+x ./build-gnuradio && ./build-gnuradio Then followed the instructions here: http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr…

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Locksport practice kit

We had our first locksport meeting in Randburg last week and when I posted about it, a couple of people mentioned that they would enjoy something similar in Centurion. So by popular demand, we will have our first locksport get together next week Tuesday 13 November. If you are keen to get into this, check…

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