So my current project (outside of massive amounts of school work) is building a large, bright, RGB LED display for my college’s weekend-long end-of-year party. I’ve got three of these strips from DealExtreme, which have 30 RGB LEDs in separable strips of three LEDs. That makes for a total of 30 RGB dots, which is [...]
Tagged display, diy, Electronics, LED, Programming, project, RainbowduinoI was delving into some simple PHP coding for the first time in a while, and was having trouble getting a form to submit when I pressed enter. Googling was ineffective, and only seemed to come up with javascript approaches, which I wanted to avoid. However, this StackOverflow question suggested the answer: add a hidefocus=”true” [...]
Tagged browser, form, hint, html, scriptHave you ever had one of those days when you bought a keyboard for no good reason? Well I did the other day, and ended up with an “Irocks Chocolate Key Style Slim Keyboard for Pc with Elegant Body”. It felt like a steal — I got it $12.99 with free two day shipping. It [...]
Tagged amazon, cheap, computer, Electronics, keyboardWhen my girlfriend came across this erotic alphabet, the first thing she wanted was to be able to spell out various things with it. Add a pinch of python and php and the result is the Erotic Alphabet Image Generator. The source code of the script used to generate the images is available here.
Tagged alphabet, erotic, font, generator, program, sex, text, webSo, I know that I’ve been harping on this a bit, but I’ve re-written my M-Set renderer in C, so it’s faster, and I’ve added a few more command line flags to make it easier to use. Get the code here.
Tagged cli, command line, mandelbrot, Math, program, Programming, SoftwareI know it’s taken me a long time to post this, but I received my box of migratory junk on May 10! I got box INTJ-7 which had been shipped out by a nice guy from San Diego. I don’t have a lot to say now (and no pictures) but I’d like to share some [...]
Tagged 2d barcode, barcode, barcode scanner, diy, Electronics, exchange, free, junk, project, symbology, tgimboejIf you haven’t heard of TGIMBOEJ (The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk), you should definitely check it out. The basic idea is that a box of random electronic junk gets shipped between makers and tinkerers, each of whom take something and contribute something to the box, and document what they end up doing. [...]
Tagged diy, Electronics, exchange, free, junk, project, tgimboejI just recently revisited the M-Set code from my Perl Snippets post. The code I had was pretty ugly, so I decided to rewrite it in Python. The result is not only a lot cleaner and easier to understand, but it’s also a lot faster: $ time python mandel.py > \dev\null real 0m0.051s user 0m0.036s [...]
Tagged cli, command line, Math, program, Python, script, SoftwareSince I got a new desktop a month or so ago, I’ve been running Ubuntu as my main operating system, and am using Conky for a nice heads-up-display. There are a lot of articles on the web about both Ubuntu and Conky, but one thing I couldn’t find a good, accurate how-to on was getting [...]
Tagged cal, calendar, command line, conky, desktop, free, program, script, sed, Software, ubuntu