Chris Radek's stuff

Freight Train for banjo

This is really a guitar song but my banjo rendition was interesting to some folks last night at the gathering at CGS music. I drew up this tab before I got the typewriter, so it's a little less readable than the newer ones.

(Don't miss it done right.)

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freight-train.png

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Dinah, a love song for banjo

This is a traditional tune that I've written out to share with this month's "third Thursday" banjo workshop group at CGS Music. I heard it first on a David Holt recording (I think it might have been his first record.) He does it with brave simplicity and I've tried to capture that. I don't think this tune is very well known. I play it in double C, but as is traditional when being nice to fiddlers, he tuned up to D.

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dinah.png

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OpenWRT on a WRT350N

The OpenWRT project has packages for the Linksys WRT350Nv1 (they call it v1, but on my device there is no v number) but they do not work. However, if you build your own custom Backfire image, it can be made to work.

Attached here is the .config file I used to build Backfire (10.03.1, r29599) for this device.

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dot.config

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TV Clock

I turned a 1980 model "portable" TV from Goodwill into a little clock. I removed the now-useless broadcast tuner and deciphered the remaining circuitry well enough to determine where to inject sync and luminance signals. These signals are generated and bit-banged by an ATmega8 AVR.

The clock also contains an old wifi router running OpenWRT in client mode, so it can attach to my wireless network and sync to the 'net using NTP. The wifi hardware then continuously sets the AVR. The clock displays local time on top, and UTC on the bottom. So to set the timezone, you just log in to its web interface over the wireless...

Truetype Tracer now has a public git repository.

The truetype-tracer repository I use is now available at git://timeguy.com/truetype-tracer.git

It is read-only.