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Best Outdoor brands that produce durable stuff

Posted on 15. Juni 2014 Comments

This is a list of outdoor brands and what I bought or used from them over the years. Not every brand is particularly good at everything, so I wrote down what I can recommend from them.

 

Clothes and shoes

The North Face – Outdoor clothes generally, warm clothes

Twentyfour – Outdoor clothes generally, raingear, warm clothes, underwear

Jack Wolfskin – Outdoor clothes generally, warm clothes

Mammut – Outdoor clothes generally, raingear, jackets

Meindl – Trecking boots

Kaikkialla – Outdoor clothes generally, warm clothes (polartec)

Outdoor Research – gaiters (Gortex)

 

Gear

Rei – Tents

Leatherman – Multitoolkit

Glock – Knife

Thermarest – Camping mat

Fenix – Flashlight/ torch

Nalgene – Drinking bottle

Gelert – One man tent

Garmin – GPS device

Oakley – (Sun/Sport-) glasses, depending on the modell even military grade strength, e.g. for biking on dirt roads

Zippo – Lighter

Casio – Not exactly an outdoor brand but they make good waterproof solar-watches

Petzl – Head lamp

Black Diamond – Head lamp

MSR – Cookers

Snow Peak – Cooking gear (titanium spork)

Trangia – Cooking gear (pot)

Primus – Cooker, cooking gear

Sea To Summit – shovel

 

Baggage

Ortlieb – Waterproof bags, especially for bicycles, dry bags for backpacks and watersport

Deuter – Backpacks

Tatonka – Trekking backpacks

 

I’m still missing good brands for hiking poles, bicycle tools, a bicycle pump, bivvy bags and some more gear. So if you have any recommandations or had a different experience with those brands, feel free to comment or send me an email.

Minimal Open Source Flashlight

Posted on 1. Januar 2014 Comments

Nachdem OI Flashlight bei mir nicht funktioniert habe ich gestern Nacht kurzerhand entschloßen mal AIDE auszuprobieren und mir meine eigene Taschenlampen App zu schreiben. Stellt sich raus, dass das garnicht so schwer ist. Der Developer Account bei Google kostet $25 und ist super einfach zu bedienen. Details folgen noch.

update: Ich habe eine Version für Smartphones mit Android < 4.0 hochgeladen. Je nach Androidversion wird automatisch die richtige App ausgewählt.

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Github

APK SHA1SUM(15 Jan 2014/v 1.0.2)

$adb pull /data/app/de.repat.mosf-2.apk
$sha1sum de.repat.mosf-2.apk
  • c5b311b6d85ab1f4e3e99fe3bdcfc4f104a4a375 for 4.0+
  • 1db8ad27f07f60dc843eefb3df6a7ee35f1fd880 for < 4.0

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