code, tech, random stuff
This blog has been online for little over a month and I can only witness it picking up momentum.
Page views have been doubling week by week and I’m receiving nice feedback and comments from visitors all over the globe. Read More >>
In this tutorial I’ll show how to install IDLE for Python 2.6 on Ubuntu 9.10
This tutorial couldn’t be much easier, as a matter of fact you should be ashamed of yourself for even reading this! I’m just kidding, follow the next couple of steps and you’ll be wrestling the mighty python in a matter of minutes.
An arduino, a DB18S20 one-wire temperature sensor and an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) are hooked up with some resistors and an ethernet shield to make a datalogger and webmonitor.
Since today was a holiday (here in Belgium) I had a few moments to spare so I wrote a quick and dirty version of pong for the arduino using the S65 shield.
Check the video after the break… Read More >>
MAKE made another excellent video with Collin Cunningham. This time it’s on how inductors work. Learn more about wire coils and their capacity to store energy in electromagnetic fields.
Be sure to check out the other videos … Read More >>
In this third and final part I’ll show you how to get the arduino to access a website using an ethernet shield and php. The data can then be displayed in a number of ways. Here the data is simply printed one line at a time.
Each time motion is detected, the networked arduino connects to the web and executes a php script which writes the time and date of the event to a text file. When you want to check if motion was detected, acces a different php script which displays all (if any) recorded events.
Check my next post to see how to send sensor data from the arduino to a website using php.
If you followed part 1 and part 2 all you need to do for part 3 is change the code of the receiving arduino since we’re only changing the output from ‘blink a led’ to ‘access a website’. Read More >>
Rossum made a an awesome device with just an 8-bit Atmel AVR ATmega644 processor and a cheap touchscreen LCD. Read More >>
Santa came early this year and brought me a S65-Shield revision 1.2 from watterott
S65 displaying random text
It consists of :
- a Siemens S65 16-bit color screen with 172×136 pixels
- a rotary switch (left-right-press)
- a micro-SD slot (bottom) Read More >>
Last time I installed Ubuntu 9.10 I said to myself, let’s use a good’ol secure password for my user. Two days later I was already regretting my decision.. I’m not saying a password shouldn’t be secure, but a 10 digit password 5 of which are numbers just starts to get annoying when having to type it every time you want to sudo this or sudo that.
No problem thusfar, you just wander to System > Administration > Users and Groups
In this tutorial I will show you how to setup the Arduino IDE on Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit. I’ll also show you how to add an Application Launcher to quickstart the Arduino IDE
I’ll assume you haven’t already installed any of the necessary packages to run the Arduino IDE.
1. First open a terminal ( Applications > Accesories > Terminal ), paste the following code and hit enter : Read More >>
Arduino Tinker it Reprap
