Archive for March, 2009

The Coromandel Gold Trail

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Many travelers to New Zealand I met over the years found themselves a few day away from their flight out of NZ (or just arrived into Auckland’s airport and looking for a short relaxing three day itinerary.

Less then 1.5 hours from Auckland the Coromandel Peninsula offers some of New Zealand finest beaches true bush experience and historical gold mining sites and monuments.

Combine a short term campervan hire, a couple of beautiful waterfront camp sites and only three or more days and get the real New Zealand country experience.

The itinerary below will take you through a mixture of these and recommended for at least three days starting and ending Auckland City:


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Possible short bush walks with a real feel of the NZ rain-forest and old mining sites will be posted here soon…

200NZD Sound System

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Hi have tried to assembled a little sound system that will be easy to carry around and not to expensive, see below:

It is made out of:

  1. Strat clone guitar by Samick (Japan)
  2. Roland MicroBox Amp (Japan)
  3. Key chain Portable MP3 Player (Southern China), wired into the Amp

this is  light easy to carry and very cost effective full blown sound system.

nice to have the few built-in effects that comes with the MicroBox Amplifier.

It is all 9V powered and while plugged into a solar panel allowing sustainable usage in the bush.

The tr-55 below (9V as well):

was the first to deliver Jazz and Blues across the Gulf of Mexico from New Orleans Louisiana to Kingston Jamaica using only 5 transistors (an Intel Quad-Core Itanium processor has 2 Billion of them).

next enhancement will be a Wah Wah pedal.