DAMN Samsung TV

Samsung TV in/out

I bought a Samsung TV from a friend some mounth ago. I had it in my bedroom untill now. Yesterday I was going to watch a movie. It was late so people was sleeping in the room next to me. So I took my headphones and... "#¤% there was no headphone jack. WHAT? An almost brand new top of the line TV, and it dont have a headphone jack! In the middle of the night I could not find any solution to my problem. The only output I could find was optical. I had this kind of problems befor for other reasons, then it was damn hard/expencive to fix.
To day I had to fix the problem some how. I was thinking I had to get a amplifier for $xxx, or just get a new TV. I use the headphone all the time. 

Audioengine-D1

Anyway, not having high hopes I whent to the  electronics market and feared the worst. The sale person just said -Sure, I can fix your problem. Oh oh... Here it comes.

But no, he actualy showed me exactly what I wanted. Optical to 3.5mm headphones jack. I seen this befor but only in hi-fi shops and they cost alot more then I want to spent. OK, this one was not for free, but it was alot better than getting an amplifier.

Audioengine D1 is a nice little gadget that you can use not only for optical to headphones. You could use it to drive you active speakers directly from you computers USB. Realy sweet if you missing a audiocard in your computer.

One nice thing is that the Audioengine-D1 is that it takes it's power from the USB, and most TV's to day have an USB. So no extra powersupplys is needed. 


Just for fun I sent an e-mail to Samsung asking what solution they might have to the problem. They did not have one...

Grand Opening Friends Arena

We got some free tickets for the grand opening of Friends arena here in Solna. The show was all nice and the feeling of been there was all good. 
But there is one thing that I cant let go. On the back of the ticket there are this rules that say what you can and cant do. One thing that I peculiarly dont like it the rule: Camera are not permissible to bring. Befor the show was starting they wanted us to use our mobile cameras and send pictures to Facebook and other social media... 

Change the damn text on the ticket or confiscate everyones mobile phones. You cant have it both ways!

I did bring my big camera just to hope to start an argument, but that did not happen.

I put my pictures here:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/62498250@N02/8131615810/in/photostream/lightbox/

Volvo V70 ETS

The ETS (electronic throttle system) broke on my Volvo V70. So naturaly I think that a Volvo service place will repair this things. WRONG! We can excange it for you and it will cost about $1200.

In my world you fix things when they are broken, you dont replace whole parts. In my line of work we fix broken things all day long. People come in to us and we do electronic service changing the component that are bad. It can be a transistor or a resistor that usaly cost almost nothing compaired to the whole circuit board.

Anyway, I ended up getting a new one because this part was super duper special and only Volvo sold it. But I said that I want the old part and that I was going to take it a part and if I see that it is something stupid like a component for $1 I will come back and !"#¤%! So I ended up "only" paying $600, if I promist that I would not come back and !"#¤% them up.

I got the old part back and tonight I took it apart.

On both sides of the ETS there are this black plastic caps that house two potentiometer that keep track on where the axel are and how much it is open. This is the problem, because they are about the only thing that wear out. I mesured this and they are not consistant as they should be.

The ETS are build to be in a tough enviroment so I can see that it is hard to change this and get every thing back together and be all weather proof, but for a Volvo service place they should realy have the tools to fix this kind of things.

Im not an engineering but I could have made this product alot better, both in precision and easy to maintain. 

It piss me off that most stuff to day are ware and tare. When it breakes throw it out and buy a new one.  

SHAME ON YOU VOLVO!

Stupid GPS

I have a Tomtom navigatior in my car, and there is one thing that have been bugging me for some time. I dont know if it's the same in other countrys, but here in Sweden we have even numbers on one side of the street and odd on the other. So if I tell my navigator that Im going to the number 137 and it cant find it. It suggest the closest number that it know of. Sure that would be fine most of the times but if it cant find 137 you would guess it would suggest the closest number on that side of the street, right... WRONG, it suggest'ed 24. Some streest are long and it's not always that 25 is on the other side of the street from 24. So fist of all suggest a number on the same side. Second dont suggest a number that is miles from each other.
One time the damn GPS lead me in to the forest, the road become more narrow and finaly it ended up with a barrier. It took me miles to get on the right track again. I later heard that the road had been closed for over 15 years! Nice that your maps are updated Tomtom!

Battlefield 3

Phu, only took me about 100 houers to start getting a desent score. I still dont get how some people get over 100 kills and only die 5-10 times i a game. I suspect cheating. Damn shame they never can do a game that dont allow scripts and hacks.

Blocket.se

Ska det vara så jävla svårt att göra en sökfunktion som funkar? Om jag söker på flipperspel så vill jag väl inte få upp annonser från folk som kan tänka sig att byta sin sketna Volvo 240 mot ett flipperspel.
En enda liten funktion som man kan klicka i som säger: SÖK ENDAST I RUBRIKEN, ska det vara så jävla svårt?
Idag skulle jag se om jag kunde hitta en ny Axis nätverkskamera. Butt nooo... Flera sidor med annat skit som kanske också heter axis kommer upp. Står det inte i rubriken så vill jag inte se skiten!

Better Lens?

Was looking for a new lens for my camera today. Have seen some asum lenses for movie cameras and they cant be that special so they could not fit a normal Nikon, right?
There are lenses that goes from 10-410mm or with built "in" extenders 19-820mm.
That would be a sweet lens to have.

Anyway I did an experiment with the junk I have and the result is not all that bad. It not close to what "THEY" have but for a simple amature...

What "THEY" have:

What I came up with:
Nikon 70-200mm @ 200mm with extender 1.7 = 340mm