August 2011
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My Arduino clock prototype, shame the camera isn’t fooled by the Charlieplexing like your eyes, hence the glow on the video. At the moment, it has two push buttons to change the hour and minutes. Will be adding an alarm also. Then I need some kind of casing, no idea where I will start with that :/
July 2011
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Electronic dice, Just another small Arduino project, mainly to brush up on my soldering skills.
rylagrace asked: Cool arduino post! Starting with arduino myself :).. Looking forward to more of your posts
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Finally got my head around Charlieplexing, took some time I can tell you :p Anyway quite chuffed with myself :)
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Yay first Arduino sketch/test, very simple, but still quite exciting :p Now I can spend my weekend tinkering :)
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June 2011
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May 2011
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QR code encode/decode python script
As I am getting more and more obsessed with QR codes, thought I might need a shell script for encoding/decoding them.
https://bitbucket.org/leecaine/qrcode
Pretty cool, it makes use of Google’s chart API for encoding, and ZXing’s online decoder for decoding.
So now I can do cool stuff like:
encode:
qrcode -s ‘Hello world!’ > hello.png
qrcode -f myfile.txt >...
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A very short time lapse of my workplace, just testing my new phone out :) Quite good quality for a phone I reckon.
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BT broadband rant
Haven’t had a rant for a while, but it’s that time again, usually the case with BT, broadband is okay for the first few months, then I start getting problems. This has happened at my last three addresses…
Extremely slow speeds, up to 8mb my ass( currently on around 512k haha, I had better speeds 10 years ago)
Intermittent connection probably no Internet for around a quarter of...
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Tumblr Backup
hiremebecauseimsmart:
I know there’s already a backup tool for Mac users. Here’s one for Linux users (or if you have Windows PowerShell).
Open a terminal.
Go to the directory you want to have your backup in.
wget --random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U mozilla http://hiremebecauseimsmart.tumblr.com
(if you don’t have wget, do sudo apt-get install wget)
The end.
(This is why people love...
April 2011
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Gliding at 5000 ft :)
Gliding at Black mountains, Talgarth, Powys, dismal weather though :/
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A glider taking off(Winch)
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Went gliding for the first time the other day, was an amazing experience, in fact I am going again tommorow :)