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I am pleased to bring you the never ending series “The baby” Part 1 of infinity. I figured I would start this series with a couple photos of the fetus at 9 weeks 6 days from conception. That would put the due date on or near October 23rd and the day of conception on January 18th, 2008 which is a Friday. I can’t exactly recall what I was doing that day, but without remembering I am sure I know one thing I did that day. As you can see below, the construction of the baby is progressing as expected. The planned birthing will be on October 17th currently. Click for a larger and less blurry picture.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Here are a few cellphone pictures I took of my street bike after I finished custom installing some ground lighting. I used green LEDs on the front bottom, and some yellow or amber looking LEDs on the front bottom that also blink with the blinkers. I also place some green LEDs above the chrome exhaust which looks sweet from behind. On top of that, I also installed all LED lighting for the running lights and flashers. Which I found gave me “hyper flashing” due to the low resistance of the LEDs with my stock flasher unit. To fix that problem, I also installed a after market variable load electronic flasher unit.

Here is a picture of me testing some of the LEDs on the bottom of the front end with a 9V battery.

Bottom

I would have preferred to purchase a easy to install kit, but unless you own a top of the line bike, that isn’t going to happen.

Right Side

Left Side

Rear

Updated Rear

Update: I added a few more LEDs to the rear bottom of my bike. They REALLY make it stand out now!

Front

I hope you enjoyed taking a peek at my latest hack. Perhaps I will do more in the future. My cell phone doesn’t have the best camera, especially in the dark. So, Sorry about the fuzz.

I may add some more lighting to the bottom rear of the bike. Or if I get really ambitious, make it look like a green Tron!

LINUX:

You can go here to get the Ubuntu LiveCD:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

We have tried to make this as simple as possible, but it would be
helpful if you have some familiarity with Linux (or someone available
who has).

1. Boot Live CD and bring up a terminal window (under “Applications”,
then “Accessories”, then “terminal” on Ubuntu)
2. Make sure it is connected to the internet, then type the following to
download the files you will need:
Code:

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wget
wget http://www.blogin.it/ROBIN/test/meraki/openwrt-atheros-2.6-vmlinux.gz
wget http://www.blogin.it/ROBIN/test/meraki/openwrt-atheros-2.6-root.jffs2-64k
wget http://ruckman.net/downloads/mesh/easyflash
wget http://ruckman.net/downloads/mesh/flash
ifconfig eth0 up
chmod +x easyflash
chmod +x flash

3. Plug in your Meraki to your Ethernet LAN port on your computer.
4. Type: ./flash (note: If your Meraki is NOT connected to eth0, modify
the file “flash” accordingly, it should be eth0 but you can check by
issuing ifconfig)
5. Plug in the Meraki to power.
6. You should see something like this displayed:
Code:

No packet
No packet
Peer MAC: 00:18:84:80:67:1C (this will be the MAC address of your
router)
You MAC: 00:ba:be:ca:ff:ee
Your IP: 192.168.1.0
Setting IP address…
Loading rootfs…
Sending rootfs. 6400 blocks…
Initializing partiions…
Rootfs partition size now 0×006f0000
Flashing rootfs…
Loading Kernel…
Sending kernel, 1536 blocks…
Flashing Kernel…
Setting boot_script_data…

Done. Restarting device…

7. Go get lunch. This will take 15-30 minutes, depending upon the flash
chip speed in your router. DO NOT INTERRUPT!
8. When it is done, the window will show Done.

WINDOWS:

Get the utility:

http://ruckman.net/downloads/mesh/ap51-flash-gui.exe

Download the firmware:

http://www.blogin.it/ROBIN/test/meraki/openwrt-atheros-2.6-root.jffs2-64k

http://www.blogin.it/ROBIN/test/meraki/openwrt-atheros-2.6-vmlinux.gz

Run the utility and choose the firmware files with the browse buttons.

Choose the network adapter that the Meraki is connected in the pull down menu.

Click on the “Go” button and walk away for about 30 minutes.

Good Luck!