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Electronics and Programming for All
Electronics and Programming for All
Jun 28th
After having a few un-expected power outages this year, it got me thinking about how I could easily (and cheaply) be alerted (preferably via SMS) should one occur. With a laptop running Linux, a little bit of Python and some easily obtainable hardware and software, I come up with a simple method of doing just that. Read on for the code and set-up instructions. More >
Jun 21st
OK, so I haven’t posted anything here for a while but hopefully this should make up for it. Searching for a tutorial on Bitwise Operators in C brought up the little gem embedded below… Hope it’s useful.
Feb 11th
This may be old news to some of you but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant a blog post.
The Podcast site Hacker Public Radio has a rather interesting episode about the current and future plans for the development of Python. Hope it’s useful to someone.
Feb 5th
The great hosting provider migration is finally over! Good riddence fasthosts (or should I say farsehosts) and hello Cyberhostpro!
Jan 11th
TehnikService has an interesting article about PCB etching using the “Sponge Method” This seems like a good way for beginners to get started making their own PCB’s.
Has any one tried this?
Jan 9th
Protostack has released a new and improved version of it’s 28-pin development board. It’s priced at $9.60 and includes a number of welcome changes from the one I reviewed here in a previous post.
Read on to see what’s changed….
Jan 7th
The guys over at HintShop have published a tutorial on using a bus pirate as an In-Circuit Programmer to flash firmware to an AVR Microcontroller using SPI.
As if that wasn’t cool enough, they also include instructions showing how multiple Mircocontrollers can be flashed by one Bus Pirate on the same board, in their tutorial! Is there anything this little gadget can’t do?
Jan 7th
Georg Kaindl, over at gkaindl.com has developed a collection of libraries for the Arduino environment which allows developers to make use of the DHCP, DNS and Bonjour (Apple Computers’ implementation of Zeroconf) protocols in their network-enabled Arduino projects. Documentation for each individual library (including installation instructions) can be found on Georg’s site.
If anyone is using these libraries in their own projects already, then feel free to share you experiences in the comments section. I’d love to hear about some of the cool stuff other people have made with them.
Jan 6th
Ever wondered what was contained in the EEPROM memory of your TV? Well, you may find the answer here. This page on tehnikservice.net has EEPROM dumps from a variety of TV models available for download. Hope this is useful to someone.
Dec 31st
bpython is a Python interpreter interface on steroids! It’s main features are:
Installation in Ubuntu is as painless as typing sudo apt-get install bpython Other packages are available for Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE as well. You can also obtain the source code from here and compile it yourself if need be.
If you need any help with using bpython, then check out the project’s webpage. Hope this is useful to someone.
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