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In mid-2011 I purchased a Shark SV75SP 14 cordless hand-held vacuum cleaner for small messes. The unit is shown in the picture below.
The batteries on the Shark lasted for about 10 minutes before they were drained and I was constantly recharging the thing. Worse yet, the instructions said to charge it for 16 hours (that’s a long time!). [Read more…] about Practical Electronics – Hacking My Shark Cordless Vacuum Project, Part 1
I run a business where I often receive calls before I get out of bed in the morning. At first, I used an inexpensive Kindle Fire (1st gen) tablet PC and a mobile version of LogMeIn to connect to my main desktop computer which runs QuickBooks (used as sort of a POS system) and other productivity applications, but often found it difficult to type info into QuickBooks on the remote computer in the other room using the tablet. [Read more…] about How to Turn a $100 Netbook into a Lean, Mean Machine That Will Rival a $500 iPad – Part1
