December 8, 2008 – 12:59 pm
So after we upgraded our home iMac we passed our old one on to Natalies parents which after six months required a rebuild as the drive was corrupted. I should have know the death bell was ringing but reformatted and reinstalled instead.
Then as I leave for Australia Nat rings saying it’s died again and [...]
November 27, 2008 – 10:48 am
Recently had an email which asked some good questions thought I might reply here as well for everyones benefit.
To answer your Questions
What are you using as the laptops? - full size, or netbooks? How many do you have, and what size school?
We are using a fifty/fifty mix of mac/pc all fullsize we have 120 at [...]
November 3, 2008 – 7:45 am
Here is a quick 3x speed video of Mark making an irpen. Feel free to comment and ask questions if you need any further help making your own. Or you can buy one by clicking on the link on this blog. If you need to see it in higher quality follow the link to you [...]
October 29, 2008 – 10:05 am
I have finally got a production model of my IR pen and am just waiting for a shipment of the Vishay TSAL6400 IR LED’s from the US.
So far I have been using the IR LED from an Apple remote which works far better than any others I have sourced in NZ.
I have the manufacturing process [...]
October 21, 2008 – 2:13 pm
So we have had our first week of having the wiimote in a class at Katikati College. Next week we deploy to another eight classrooms across the cluster as well as three at Omokoroa No 1 School. So far we have built some of our own pens and brought some from penteractive.us who were very [...]
October 15, 2008 – 7:41 pm
I had waited expectantly for today’s announcement of new MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. They look sleek, shiny and elegant like one would expect from apple. Alas there is a hidden catch, the MacBook Pro has dropped firewire 400 in favour of firewire 800, that in itself is no particularly big deal, some different cables will pretty [...]
October 15, 2008 – 1:51 pm
To further advertise the simplicity of using the wiimote pens this video shows my Two year old daugther using the wiimote irpens on the projector in the lounge. She now loves standing on the toy box and drwing on the wall. good one dad
YouTube - wiimote, so easy.
September 25, 2008 – 7:28 pm
MusicStation is just $2.50 a week for unlimited access to over one million songs. There are no data charges so that’s all you pay
Ok so I can download megs and megs of music but I want to upload one photo and you charge me $1 for 10 mb a day. Just how much does [...]
September 25, 2008 – 10:33 am
Here are some shots of the mounts and the pens manufactured by Te Puke High School.
September 24, 2008 – 10:10 pm
Fairly cheesy video but you get the idea. I just bought this app because I have become a beta tester for the mac as it is only advertised to work on XP and Vista. The app works by installing server software on your computer and transmitting the data over wifi. The application has 2 modes, [...]
