etftw » usb http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog Blog and home page of etftw Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Modded NES Controller http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/450 http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/450#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:50:57 +0000 Rob http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/?p=450 As an avid gamer I like to revisit some of the classics that I used to play as a kid, most notably Super Mario Bros. As I sold the system back in 1995 to get a SNES my only option is to play my old games on my PC, but playing Super Mario Bros just isn’t the same when you haven’t got a square brick for a controller that is giving you cramp in your hands! This ended up leading to me thinking – why not just convert an old controller to work via USB? And so I have. See below some pictures and a little demonstration video of the controller in use :)

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]]> http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/450/feed 2 Recording with the Alesis MultiMix 8-Channel Mixer http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/253 http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/253#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:15:43 +0000 Rob http://www.etftw.co.uk/?p=253 After getting my new jazz bass I have been dying to get some good recordings done with it, but due to lack of equipment I have had nothing to use until tonight when I remembered I actually had a £200 mixer sat away gathering dust.

It took me a while to get my head around it and had to mither a friend of mine for some advice (check out his band The Portlands), but I am pretty happy with the quality that some of the recordings were coming out.

Click the play button on the small media player below to check out a sample of a recording I did. There has been no editing on the recording other than lowering the master track’s volume, a pretty impressive sound for just a raw recording in my opinion; let me know what you think though.

]]> http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/253/feed 4 Booting Google Chrome OS from a USB Flash Drive http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/88 http://www.etftw.co.uk/blog/posts/88#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:23:35 +0000 Rob http://www.pixelsandlife.co.uk/wordpress/?p=88 On the latest episode of the Hak5 podcast Darren Kitchen demonstrated how to install and boot Chrome OS (the new operating system being developed by Google for those of you who don’t know) from a USB flash drive, check out the video below to view the segment of the show which covers it.

The torrent mentioned in the video as well as further instructions can be found here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-google-chrome-os-and-run-on-a-real-computer/

If you want to watch the full episode head over to: http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-618

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