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Kawasaki Concours 1400 TPMS Replacement

by Chris Wiltshire | March 2, 2023 | Computing / Electronics, Motorcycling | 0 Comments

Today I had first hand success replacing my intermittent TPMS (battery was dying on my 2017 model, it's now 2023)... A few things to note..: The TPMS is programmed using an 8 digit hexadecimal code. You can only programme the bike to a new sensor using KDS -...

Thoughts on the Garmin Zumo XT (Jan 2022)

by Chris Wiltshire | January 28, 2022 | Computing / Electronics, Motorcycling | 2 Comments

The first comment I’d have about this is aimed towards people who are already used to operating Garmin GPS units. This unit does not work in exactly the same way which you will be used to, and there will be a number of changes which you’ll need to be willing to get...

Flicker lights – C14 – The making of…

by Chris Wiltshire | May 24, 2021 | 3D Printing, Computing / Electronics, Motorcycling | 0 Comments

Prompted by earlier night-fall as we go into winter, and the prospect of travelling home in the dark for the next 4 or more months, I felt the need to become more visible on the motorway at dusk. Particularly in the heavy traffic heading north from Albany up to...

Photos from the iPhone 12 Pro

by Chris Wiltshire | November 15, 2020 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

Here are the full sized photos recently shared on Facebook. Click through to see original photos.

Custom building our own NZ based OSM maps…

by Chris Wiltshire | March 12, 2020 | Computing / Electronics, Motorcycling | 0 Comments

Download links for the finished windows basecamp file, and garmin map files are at the bottom of this post - you don't need to work through what I had to... By custom building our own, routable OSM based maps for NZ, we can do things like set speed adjustments for...

Spark Sport – ad-hoc IT support.

by Chris Wiltshire | September 19, 2019 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

So, this just happened:

RWC 2019 – Rugby game is back online!

by Chris Wiltshire | September 15, 2019 | Computing / Electronics, Major Posts | 0 Comments

Good news if you're a Rugby fan, and if you've enjoyed our RWC game in the past! - It is back! Head on over to http://rugby.wiltshire.net/rugby to join in the fun! 🙂 Time until kick off:

Renaming multiple video files from Dashcam footage

by Chris Wiltshire | July 26, 2019 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

My new dashcam on my bike creates a heap of 5-minute video files as it records. Depending on whether or not I have hit the 'Save' button on the handlebars, the filename will start with a different pre-fix. Embedded within the middle of the filename is the date-time...

Fun with haProxy, SSL and CF web services.

by Chris Wiltshire | November 9, 2018 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

Background: We're shifting from an environment which used to use ldirectord for our load balancing to haProxy, predominantly because it can perform SSL termination, layer 7 filtering etc. It's far more flexible in terms of how it can cater for multiple SSL sites...

The joys of bcrypt

by Chris Wiltshire | August 7, 2018 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

I had the joy of coming across Bcrypt the other week, a pretty neat way of storing individually hashed passwords within a single table, each with a differing salt. The salt, algorithm and number of hashing iterations is stored, written within the outputted hash, so...

Flicker lights on R1 changed to use MOSFET

by Chris Wiltshire | November 8, 2017 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

This builds on my previous post: http://www.wiltshire.net/2017/10/29/flicker-lights-for-the-r1/ The auxiliary lights project on the R1 continues, tonight I've completed the transition from the physical relay unit to a MOSFET power transistor - the relay was limited in...

Fun at HINZ

by Chris Wiltshire | October 31, 2017 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

Ok. So our first night in Rotorua this year happened to be Halloween. So there were a few people in fancy dress out tonight. Guess who I spotted?? You might need to open the full sized original image (click) and zoom in to see 🙂 My Facebook post of this was a Fail...

Flicker lights for the R1

by Chris Wiltshire | October 29, 2017 | Computing / Electronics, Motorcycling | 0 Comments

So. Watching the Iron Butt Rally riders depart on their huge rally earlier this year inspired me to want to build an electronic controller for my auxiliary lights which I had already fitted to my R1. In prep for my Saddle Sore 1600k ride in March this year I...

Progress with 3d printing…

by Chris Wiltshire | August 5, 2017 | 3D Printing, Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

So it's been a couple of weeks since I first assembled my 3d printer and I have to say, it's been a heck of a lot of fun, it has the capacity to become slightly obsessive. 🙂 It's so captivating watching something new being formed. I have ended up thinking...

NAS storage plans for my home network

by Chris Wiltshire | May 29, 2017 | Computing / Electronics | 0 Comments

I'm considering replacing my Desktop and / or NAS... Here's my thought process. Current state: I have a very old Desktop Machine which was somewhat replaced in function by this NAS a while ago. The desktop is used for Scanning purposes (only now). Netgear READYNAS 104...

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