2020 arrived and January has all but disappeared!

Happy New Year all!

First off, the apology. I’ve been busy, ill and picking up new skills since my last post.

It was a busy Xmas which saw our family getting together, present deliveries and oddly a big rush on work items.

Since the festivities and year end, I’ve spent some time building a couple of desks for both my 3d printers and my good wife’s crafting.

Check out her shop for some brilliant handmade items that could be perfect for that hard to shop for person. Maybe you know someone with a real drive for planet friendly products?

In and around the shop setup and building desks. I have also begun enjoying woodturning (mini wood lathe, some tools and an hour or so).

I hope to post soon with some pictures of the lathe and attempts at making things. So keep your eye out here at www.linked2u.co.uk

Unicorn Secrets Revealed

Here at Linked2u.co.uk we believe.

We believe that unicorns do exist. Moreover, believe that they’re being used to make things happen in day to day life too.

Think about it with me now. You recently found out about a huge movement of people that are Vegan? Well, is it possible they’re led by Unicorns?

A organised team of crack human manipulating Unicorns are popularising Veganism in, what could be, part of their ongoing mission to take over planet earth realms?

It’s believed that the Unicorns are responsible for the major events like Pokémon and telly tubbies through to Santa and old cartoon rehoming.

Truly shocking (Vegan) stuff!

More recently we have seen this sharp upturn in Veganism and while linked2u.co.uk has pretty much zero interest in the subject, we were asked to produce something to encompass both our love for both vegans and unicorns (they said I had too!)

PSVR Review

We got our PSVR pack a few months back and were instantly impressed.

The Unpack and Set up

The out of the box experience to playing wasn’t too much hassle.

The biggest issues were had with having to fish out the PS4 itself to be able to plug in all the new cables.

The actual PSVR control box is able to be placed closer / further away from your TV. Really helpful if you also have your PS4 under the TV too.

We noticed that the camera did seem a little on the light side and as such the recoiling cable for it means that we have to place something heavier on the cable itself to stop this.

The game playing setup

Once you have the PSVR and PS4 and the camera setup, the fun begins with the PS4 talking you through setup of the headset itself.

This involves adjusting the headset to your head size and comfort while also working with you through doing things like measuring the distance between your eyes for a much better experience.

Gaming it up

The first thing you’ll want to do once you have spent the time setting up your new toy is to play the included games.

I can’t even begin to tell you how cool some games are but all share one thing – they’re trying captivating, 360 degree, emotion and sometimes illness inflicting wonders!

Once you’ve worked out how to set it all up, play fruit ninja like a pro and enjoy your way through AstroBot, you’ll soon want to start spending more on games just to see what wonders await.

Gaming advice

It is so important to remember that VR induces motion sickness in some players.

This is not a bad thing if you’re unlucky enough to suffer this. You can immunise yourself by recognising the symptoms before you’re being physically sick and build up that time before it happens again with regular short playing sessions (5 – 10mins type).

Also, buying a game like the latest first person shooter (like you normally would) becomes a gamble as you may, like myself, never make it off of the menu screen and yet paid the full game price. Something these manufacturers will have to address going forwards with more demo packs.

Demo packs

Grab the Sony demo packs from the PS store as these will definitely give you a chance to see if you can play the game you intend on buying and my advice would be to not buy ANYTHING until you do make sure it’s not a waste of money for you.

Cricut Maker Tools Review

We took a look at Cricut Maker Tools

All the tools available for the Cricut are simple to remove and use.

The making process stops and asks the operator to change the tool when needed but can simultaneously hold and use both a pen and mechanical tool – so changes in tools can be minimal anyway.

We looked at the debossing tool in particular but have used the others too.

Check the tools out – it truly is amazing what you can do with this machine and it’s toolset!

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Top 3 Best 3D Printers For Xmas 2019

This is number 3 and is a great choice for those who want a well supported printer.

This is in 2nd place because even though it’s made of metal and has cyber Monday deals at Amazon, it’s therefore heavier – something to be considered on shipping side of things?

In at number 1 is this cheap printer that is perfect for anyone whom is interested in starting out in 3d printing and isn’t afraid to put a printer together.

Can’t go wrong!

Amazon Brand Goes Live – Linked2U

Linked2U Amazon Brand Launched

In 2019 , the Linked2U Brand was born and set free into the world.

We are very proud to be able to bring you the following items now and hope that you too enjoy the humour and designs that we make available.

If you would like to get in touch and discuss any custom items you would like to see in our Amazon shop, please let us know at adverts@linked2u.co.uk We can help create that perfect present or keep-sake and make it available for your purchase in our store normally within 5 days.

Linked2U Unisex Lowest Form Sarcasm Sweatshirt

This sweatshirt displays that dark humorous side of you or a loved one. It makes a perfect gift for that sarcastic so-and-so you know and love.

Linked2U Stress Carrier T-Shirt

This t-shirt displays that you don’t suffer with stress!

Make a Laptop TV!

Laptop died.

It’s so sad when your trusty laptop hardware fails beyond repair – that pesky cat and the glass of fizzy drink…

The loss of data is usually ok nowadays because people have learned that backups and cloud computing has saved us from this most horrid of traumatic experience.

What can you do now?

Assuming you can manage to rip your old laptop apart of even if you have old hardware lying around – this is great news for this project!

Grab your screw drivers and have at tearing the screen out – carefully.

You’ll need to remove rubber screw covers, maybe pierce through the odd label or two to find those hidden screw heads.

Carefully remove the screen and set aside, you’ll be needing information from this screen before you move on.

What screen to use?

The screen itself should have a model number on the back of the panel. These are normally quite prominent and you’ll need to note that down.

Head to your favourite online shopping store (yeah ok, Amazon) and enter your model number with the phrase “controller board”.

This should return a good number of results and now you just need to make sure that you select the right board for your screen.

I searched for a “HDMI controller board” when I searched and found a lovely seller whom asked me to send them the model number to ensure I was getting the right controller board.

Don’t forget to make sure you check power requirements and order a power adapter (mine was 12v 3a) as you don’t normally get one with the board itself.

Bottom of screen is the HDMI controller.

Got a screen and controller board now?

The next obvious step is to hook it all together and make sure that it all works ok.

Check you can connect an input (I used my laptop’s HDMI output). You could even test out the sound of your controller has that too ?

It all works!

Great, now you need to house it all somehow so that it is useful.

I watched loads of YouTube videos on it but generally, as long as you can connect everything you want to into the ports you need (power, HDMI and sound), then you just need to make sure the screen is safely protected.

Mine ended up looking like this.

Or TV, or Game Machine Screen – full 1080i ?

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Reconditioned Batteries – Save Some Planet

I have been doing some research into various technologies lately in an effort to bring some more fulfilling information or news of the next best thing.

I’ve been looking at electromagnetic coils and various other technology that might help me go off grid one day.

At the very least help me power my laptop longer 🙂

So I came across this site where they will show you how to recondition your old batteries and use them longer.

It’s a fantastic idea if you ask me as we all have somewhere we could light at night or have something we could be using a battery for instead of just throwing them away.

Whatever they’re asking, the knowledge alone must be worth it and I’m sure you’ll agree?

So visit them now

WordPress Market Theme Maker

Now there are quite a few on the market, so to speak, but this one looks quite promising as they say they “take the technical” out.

So, I was trawling the net looking into different wordpress themes and I stumbled upon one that wants to provide a fully functional market interface from within wordpress.

Now there are quite a few on the market, so to speak, but this one looks quite promising as they say they “take the technical” out.

If you check it out and sign up, please let me know as I am keen to get your review published here 🙂

http://www.myminiurl.net/MarketTheme

Just not enough time in the day!

It’s important to look after yourself, everyone would agree if asked.

It’s OK to be completely selfless and want to help everyone and in every little way.

Perhaps you travel each week just to see a friend whom you know wouldn’t have any visitor otherwise? or you put the bins out each week to save someone else doing it? – You’re amazing!

You deserve a pat on the back and warm drink and possibly a pay rise?

I can’t really help with the latter but I can tell you that there are things you can do to unwind or grab those precious moments to yourself.

Remember to just “be”. That’s probably my number 1 advice I’d give.

Don’t forget that it’s YOU that is doing all these things and therefore YOU should “take a beat” and relax too.

I recently found this which helps encourage you to read and relax for 5 minutes ! So what are you waiting for?