Category: Hacking

FLAC to MP3 batch audio conversion

After yesterday’s post about a bash script to backup an Android phone, I decided it was time to get around to writing a simple script to convert all of my music CD ripped music to mp3. In order to keep a permanent digital archive of all of my music over the years, I have been…


Phone problems: backing up on Android

Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr So I had some phone problems last week. Okay, not like the phone shown above. Rather my LG Nexus 5X mobile phone that I bought a while back, running CyanogenMod. I’ve been very happy with this phone. Until one day a week ago Friday it just went dead. Very…


Is the Angel Sensor M1 the device I need?

Recently I posted about my first results tinkering with the Angel Sensor M1 I bought. I was pretty happy to get it working to the point that I could read the sensors, but to be honest, I’m not sure this device is really what I was hoping it would be. The step counts seem to only…


Getting data from the Angel Sensor M1

Back in May, I posted about ordering an Angel Sensor M1. I did have some success tinkering with it, but I never got around to posting my results. After being asked about it a few times, I figured I should get it up on the blog. The device manufacturer supplies some experimental Python code on…


Hacking your biosigns

I’ve been interested in health data as much as anything else over the past few years. I bought the Withings Pulse (now called Pulse Ox) a number of years back thinking it would be more hackable than the FitBit, but it basically isn’t. I’m a little uncomfortable handing over my heart rate, level of daily…