Yearly Archives: 2016

Second Generation Amazon Dash (Wand) Teardown

Posted on December 31, 2016

Back in September, I took apart the original Amazon Dash, but now there’s a new version, so I took it apart as well. The new product number is PL46MN; the old product number is ORS3YV.1 The original wand was very … Continue reading →

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Stabilizing 360 Video with Hugin

Posted on November 30, 2016

Although there are plenty of tools that work well for stabilizing regular video, there aren’t any good ones for stabilizing 360 degree video. As I was unable to find any freely available software that worked, I used various command line … Continue reading →

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Pannellum 2.3

Posted on October 30, 2016

With eight months elapsed since the release of Pannellum 2.2, it was time to release a new version of Pannellum. Actually, the release was well past due considering the plethora of bugfixes since the previous release, but there was a … Continue reading →

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Amazon Dash (Wand) Teardown

Posted on September 30, 2016

The Amazon Dash, not to be confused with the Amazon Dash Button, is a device for adding items to an AmazonFresh order, either through voice commands or via its barcode scanner. Recently, someone who had read my Dash Button teardown … Continue reading →

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Ricoh Theta S Updater and Firmware Analysis

Posted on August 28, 2016

Ricoh provides a “Basic app” for Windows and Mac that will update the Theta S’ firmware and stitch the dual-fisheye video output into equirectangular video. The application UI and glue code, SphericalViewer.swf, is built using Adobe Flex, while the video … Continue reading →

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