HDR with chdk and Ubuntu

I recently purchased a Canon PowerShot sx40 hs. It didn’t take me long to install chdk, an alternative firmware available on Canon’s PowerShot line. One of the features I was most interested in was bracketing. Bracketing is the technique of taking a number of pictures of the same subject with different settings. Once you have a number of…

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PXE Booting Ubuntu from an iSCSI drive

The Plan This will serve as a guide to booting Ubuntu (XBMCbuntu in my case) from an iSCSI drive. The Result The boot process for my XBMCbuntu machine follows these steps: The BIOS is configured to PXE boot. The PXE boot process launches iPXE (formerly gPXE). iPXE connects to the iSCSI drive and launches GRUB which is installed…

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Office Lights

How many projects is it okay to start without finishing at least one? It seems I’m determined to find out. I’m currently in the process of finishing a room in my basement which will become my new office/hackerspace. Naturally, I incorporated copious amounts of LEDs into the design. I picked up a couple of reels…

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