Many old time cachers may be pleased to know that EcoTeam now have 3 members! Sagan Eli Jones was born 11-5-11 1:55pm 2.48kg or 5lb/7 in the old money. EcoNic and EcoSagan are doing fine. Whether or not EcoDave is doing fine is hotly debated in psychology circles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzrt...
You learn something new everyday. Last time I tried to upload a video over ten minutes it wouldn't go. Something must have changed recently. Nothing has changed, it's still a 10 minute limitation. I can upload any length because I'm a Youtube Partner, hence the ads on the video which I get a commis...
Here is a video presentation I gave at the NSW geocaching association Geocaching 101 meeting on June 27th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gVnTKb2SA8 (Available in HD to see detail on the slides) It looks at some of the early history of the Sydney geocaching scene, early competition, and some of the...
Didn't go to the MSP430 days, haven't heard about that watch. Got a pic? EcoDave. At the MSP430 Days, I usually ran one of these off three lemons with copper (20c coins) and zinc (galvanised iron) electrodes, just to show that it was really low power. One's been running off a 2032 battery for almos...
Yep, much nerdier than my old Casio DB-102! Did you get one of those MSP430 watches at a TI MSP430 Day a few years ago, Dave? They weren't as sophisticated, of course (mainly lacking the buttons) but were still pretty cool. I've got one going into a midnight-only cache sometime Real Soon Now... So,...
Whatever gets you to the end of the journey the way you want to get there, do what ever you want. if you want to use more basic technology, great, go for it, if you want to use "better" technology, great, go for it. It's nobody elses business how ya get to the plastic, whatever melts ya butter and ...
I'm still happily use my monochrome Yellow eTrex or my Foretrex with no mapping, and amazingly I'm still able to find caches! :roll: I even convert to UTM and plot in the paper street directory :shock: For the amount of caching I do these days, I don't even bother to upload waypoints to the GPS any ...