I am happy to announce that the ZigFlea board is currently available from Seedstudio. This board is the result of the Master’s thesis of Øyvind Hauback, whom I co-supervised at fourMs. The main point of the board is to provide an easy way of using ZigBee wireless communication together with Dan Overholt’s CUI32Stem sensor interface. [caption id=“attachment_2049” align=“alignnone” width=“300”] The ZigFlea wireless board, as sold from Seedstudio.[/caption] The board is described in Øyvind’s thesis (in Norwegian), as well as in short form (and English) in our NIME 2012 paper.

What to do when a DVD is stuck in the drive on an old iMac, and it refuses to booth up? There are numerous ways of doing this, including: Start up while holding down the mouse button. Start up while holding down the Option key, then hit the eject button. Start up while holding down Command-Option-O-F, to enter the Open Firmware prompt, then type “eject cd”. Start up while holding down Command-S to enter recovery mode.