Daily Archives: January 7, 2016
A New Hack?
When I got up about 11 this morning, Jan was knee-deep in spring (winter?) cleaning in the rig. She had things emptied out from all the cabinets in the kitchen area, and was scrubbing them out, before cleaning the contents, and then replacing everything.
Thus there was no walk for us today. But it looks like it should be OK for tomorrow morning, so we’ll see how it goes.
While Jan finished up with her cleaning and putting stuff back where it goes, I worked on blog and website stuff. I’ve learned to only help Jan with this stuff when she directly asks me for help. Otherwise, it’s almost guaranteed that I’ll put something back where it doesn’t belong.
My Next Hack: Our daughter Brandi gave us this really nice bathroom soap dispenser for Christmas.
Bath & Body Works Touch Free SmartSoap Automatic Hand Soap Dispenser
It works great and there are a lot of different scent refills available online. But it has one almost certainly designed-in fault. It seems to spit out about twice as much soap as you really need to wash your hands.
Of course, if you’re the soap manufacturer, that’s exactly what you want it to do to sell more soap refills at $14.95 a pop.
So what I want to do is to figure out a way to change the amount of soap that comes out. And to do that I see two different possibilities. First I can try to change the actual amount of soap that comes out, based on how long the pump runs. And it’s a fixed amount, not dependent on how long you have your hand under the spigot.
Or I can try to hack the circuit so that the pump only runs as long as your hand is in place. Since the timing is possibly hard-wired into the circuit, it may be easier to just bypass the timing circuit altogether, and wire it up so that the pump only runs as long as your hand is in front of the sensor.
So in the next few days, I’ll take it apart and see what I find. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’m still trying to track down a new glass/LED screen for my son Chris’ Galaxy S5 smartphone. As I recounted last weekend, when trying to replace the cracked glass, I found the underlying LED screen was also cracked. So now I’ve looking for a new screen combo, but I’m finding a lot of the one for sale are not OEM, but some 3rd party parts. And the online reviews of these are not very good.
So now I’m shopping around for an original Samsung model, with a decent price, and a quick delivery time. Hopefully I find something soon.
Tomorrow afternoon we’ll be getting together with some other RV friends, meeting them at the great BBQ buffet up at Peter’s BBQ up in Ellinger. Really looking forward to it.
Thought for the Day:
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson
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