Joe's Personal Blog

The Kawasaki Versys is a great motorcycle except for one weakness.  The Versys seems to burn out stators at an inordinate rate.  This results in not electrical generation capability and a dead battery.    They symptoms are that a battery is dead after riding but still takes a charge from a wall charger. The motorcycle ends up running off the battery draining the battery during every ride. A burnt out Stator often results in a weakened or dead voltage regulator.  The combined cost for OEM Kawasaki Stator and Voltage Regulator is about $500. You can see my 2014 Versys Stator that died in 2019 @ 14,500 miles on the odometer:

The Sony Playstation Classic is a small single board computer that runs 20 pre-installed Playstation 1 games via an open source platform emulator.  It can be hacked to run additional PS1 games through a simple USB Flashdrive hack which modifies nothing on the PSC.  You can run run games from other legacy game platforms by augmenting the same USB Flash Drive with additional files.  The blue and green components in the following diagram represent software and files that run from the removable media. The PSC has 3 USB ports.  Game controllers are plugged into the two Type-A on the front. One controller port can be tied up with the USB flash drive.  Power is plugged into the mini-USB connector on the back.   This plug can be convinced to act as a Flash Drive bootable USB port by installing USB OTG drivers in the kernel. Users plug a USB OTG cable in between the power cord and the PSC and plug the Game laden flash drive into the type-A socket on the ...

I added a GoPro to my helmet to record my commute.  Originally I was going to hang it off the side, stick it on the top of my head or glue it to my bike.  I wanted something relatively unobtrusive with little wind resistance and something that looked where I looked . There are several tutorials on the internet that describe chin mounting the GoPro. That is what I went with. View as seen by GoPro Hero 3+ black This is a snapshot taken by the GoPro while riding at 35MPH.  The GoPro is mounted near my chin.  I see over the top of my windshield.  You can see that it is 3-4 inches lower than my eyeballs with the windscreen obscuring part of the shot. Chin Mount Components A GoPro helmet mount has been glued to my Arai Signet-Q using Sugru The camera is off center to the right so that the lens sits dead center.  The top of the camera is pretty much even with the top of the chin bar. This position means it does not  obscure my view. Th...