Category Archives: tech

The laser harp project is now officially started. Building off of the circular buffer/ serial port example I got running last week, here is a demonstration of the system running with a single sensor: A quick description of the project: … Continue reading →

update: I modified the script to allow a filename to be passed to it for immediate flashing. The ICD-U40 is an in-circuit programmer for Microchip PIC processors, and the company that makes it,CCS, was nice enough to provide linux drivers … Continue reading →

I remembered that I got this WGT634U a year ago in order to make a music player (a la http://devices.natetrue.com/musicap/), and I never got much farther than installing a copy of OpenWRT on it (ok, so I was able to … Continue reading →

An easy way to copy files to the neo is to use scp. From the host, use these commands: for a single file: scp (filename) root@(phone ip):/(destination) for a directory: scp -r (dirname) root@(phone ip):/(destination) For example, I copied some … Continue reading →

I wrote a couple of scripts to help me remember how to do things, and I wanted to document them somewhere. First are some scripts to change the sound mixer so that sound only comes out of the headphones or … Continue reading →

This is a pretty awesome idea for intelligently resizing images for all sorts of applications. It uses energy functions (a fancy way to say ‘things that look for interesting parts of an image’) to determine paths of least interest in … Continue reading →