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It lives!

this is a quick post using the browser on the Raspberry Pi. It works pretty well as far as I can see 🙂

Raspberry Pi Update

Yes indeed, that package was a Raspberry Pi 🙂 Now all I have to do is use some of my copious spare time to have a play with it 😉

Raspberry Pi

I just got an email that seems to suggest that I may have one on the way via DHL Express 🙂 YAY!

I have been having some fun lately playing around with my old Nabaztag rabbit. A little while ago I managed to get the compiler for the little VM running in the Nabaztag working under Mac OS X. The compiler also comes with a simulator, and unfortunately the Linux version that I got running under OS […]

FrontDoor

This weekend I built a simple little Linux program that scratches an particular itch of mine. Â As part of my daily work I need to log in to various Linux VMs. Â The problem is that the IP addresses of these VMs often changes due to them being configured to use DHCP. Â I suppose I could […]

Squishy circuits

I saw this last night, and can’t wait to try it out. http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/howTo.htm It would be cool if there was a nice way to make a cake that was conductive, and yet still edible….

Failure

I have been looking for this video for ages! http://blip.tv/tucs-tech-talks/an-illustrated-history-of-failure-2729174 I saw it some time ago and it was amazing. The content is great, but more importantly it show how to give a presentation using powerpoint that actually works!

JRuby, Rails and Development mode

Well, that was fun… I spent quite a bit of time today beating my head against a “memory leak” only to remember that JRuby + Rails + Development mode = very leaky. Switch to production mode and the problem goes away. A simple little Rails app with one controller and one model is all that […]

Sadness doesn’t even come close

My boy is going to die soon. He has been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disorder. He is almost 4 now and we will be “lucky” if he sees 6 years old. There are is no cure. All we can do is try to keep him comfortable. I alternate between numbness and weeping. He’s such a […]

Funky Clock 2 is up and running

Funky clock is installed and working really nicely 🙂 I had a little trouble with the digital inputs as the pull down resistors I used were 100K instead of 10K. Also for some reason I was unable to read port E2 at all. Once I moved that input to port C4 and replaced the resistors […]