I recently bought on aliexpress a powerful (and cheap) microscope. For 15 bucks however, the feature set is quite limited and it has no autofocus, meaning the body needs to be moved to put things in focus. As the official support has 2 ball joints, it's almost impossible to be accurate : when moving focus, …
Author: Florent Revelut
Some random thoughts
I realized I've been pretty idle and did not post over the last month. September is gone, and that blog stayed empty. I did not really do anything technical last month (I mostly blame work and laziness), but I have a few random and unorganized thoughts I wanted to post. I have finally seen the move …
g-watch crashlooping
I have a LG G-watch (android smart watch, the square one). I'm not using it much and it mostly seats on my desk, uncharged. For some reason, I decided to give it another try and it could never start: just after boot, it would say that settings crashed, proposing to wait or to close. Tried …
Bruce reads (it’s funnier in French)
I'm just back from vacation and beach is super boring, so I've had plenty of time for reading and I haven't posted in a long time. Redeemed: last book of the "House of Night" serie, as usual, lots of stuff is happening when a serie is finishing. Compared to some other, that one is fairly easy …
Box for GoPro batteries
I recently bought a GoPro and wanted to make a box to store the batteries. To be clear, my model is Hero 4 Silver and is using these (AHDBT-401) batteries. It's easy to find the electrical properties (3.8V DC, 1160mAh, 4.4Wh), not so easy to find the physical size. Here is a quick overview of the key …
pgp, keys, security, privacy
It's been a long time since I wrote on this blog. I recently attended a talk with Phil Zimmerman recently and it was the opportunity to reuse pgp/gpg and I thought it was a good idea to talk about it. Why I often had the questions why I would need to use strong encryption, especially since it used …
What could go wrong ?
In the list of daily WTF, I stumbled upon this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF9bbY3-lQU Someone backflipping over a speeding formula. That's impressive. Kinda dumb & useless as well.
Music and mood
I always listen to music, but most of the time I don't really care or pay attention. I tend to use quite random playlist and mostly let them run. Or at least, this what I thought until I recently checked. What I discovered surprised me. Most people say their mood will be influenced by the …
What I currently play, march edition
Roughly 5 years after everyone, I've started playing the Witcher 2. I don't have much available time so I play in easy mode. The fighting system is good, despite requiring to memorize 6 pictograms for some sorts (I actually did not memorize them but bound them to some mouse buttons). The quest part is simple but …
Box with non vertical sides
While creating a perch for our parrot, I stumbled upon something non trivial : if you want to assemble a box with non vertical sides, what cut angle are you supposed to use to have a nice assembly ? It's obvious that it should be a trapeze, but what would be the α angle ? Easy …
Bruce's hideout 