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Africa from the rooftops - East Africa Trip 1

About 6 years ago I started installing monitoring in for a small media company. A media company of course has good relationships with their customers i.e. television and stations.

The first installations I did was in East , , and . My first trip was kind of hectic, the logistics was screwed up totally and we had a lot to learn.

Our first mistake was thinking that renting a car and self driving is a good idea. The roads in these cities are atrocious, and the drivers worse. And the irony is that for the same money you can get a full time driver with a car of the same quality. Anyway on this first trip I was driving around in and dodging potholes and Kamikazes in cars.

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Cool Tech from Hack a day

Hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week. Have fun reading, I certainly do.
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Twitter IRC server, tircd
Parts: Digital proximity sensor (Sharp GP2Y0D02)
Homebrew on the PSP3000
7 color hand held laser projector
Parallel parking system
Hacking at Random 2009 call for papers
Light to sound converter
Tiny projector teardown
Game Boy Pocket backlight
Washing machine generator
The Malware Challenge
Microwave timer switch
Make: television premiering today
Automated wire cutter and stripper
Twittering washing machine
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