Introducing the Sensible Shield
9 Apr 2011 6:58pm GMT So I’m sure anyone who’s ever tried to make their own arduino shield has been infuriated by the odd pin spacing on the Arduino Uno. Especially if you try and do it with matrix/stripboard. I figured it’d be easy enough and I could just bend the pins on each shield to make it fit, but [...]
Good lord
4 Jun 2010 10:50pm GMT It seems the tradition has become that I only update this when changing distro or operating system. Unfortunately this has not happened in a while (I’m still very happy with opensuse and the occasional boot into vista), so I’m just ranting. Firstly, an amusement – my laptop, like many spangly new ones, has an accelerometer [...]
Look, a three headed monkey!
22 Mar 2010 2:33pm GMT So… A few updates are in order, I believe: It’s 2010. I’m now running opensuse, at least part time (Vista was having issues where the harddisk would chunk out for several minutes at a time. No idea) I am, at least for a month, back in the countryside with the cows and the donkeys and [...]
Jentoo/wista fun
25 Jun 2009 12:05am GMT A while back, I decided it would be a good idea to dual boot my laptop with gentoo and vista. All went fairly well, never used linux much, because rebooting’s a pain. I was bored a minute ago, and wondered if I could make the same linux install work in a virtualbox VM. A bit [...]
Captchas
2 Jun 2009 8:19pm GMT I just got a captcha on slashdot, for “Repealing”, to which I don’t have a clue as to the meaning. I then had an idea: Combine captchas (Have I spelt that right?) and a word a day calendar. If you get the word right, it tells you what it means.