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Things that are technical in nature

Fishfish Proof of Concept

Posted on June 20, 2008 by mahto

Yesterday, I challenged myself to build a demo of our Fishfish game in a single night. At some undisclosed hour, I finished up with this: You can move the player fish around, and ‘eat’ the smaller fish, and the shark … Continue reading →

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Lucky Find!

Posted on June 17, 2008 by mahto

My friend Shaun helped me to rescue this beast from the curbside this afternoon. After verifying that it worked, I of course had to take the top off to see what was inside… It turns out to be not much. … Continue reading →

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Local DNS with dnsmasq

Posted on May 31, 2008 by mahto

I just noticed that OpenWrt uses dsnmasq to provide DNS caching. This is all well and good, but extremely un-interesting. It does have a really cool feature though: it gives DHCP-configured clients (and anything in the router’s hosts file) dns … Continue reading →

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Rotary dialer app

Posted on May 15, 2008 by mahto

This is a bit of an overextension of the phone interface metaphore… This is really rough code for now, but I wanted to show something. Code (in python using pygtk) is here. Wait till you see the mail application, where … Continue reading →

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XML ‘parsing’ using only Bash

Posted on May 12, 2008 by mahto

I’m working on setting up my wireless router (running OpenWRT) as an ethernet-to-xBee gateway: The basic plan is just to connect an xBee module to one of the serial ports (which run at 3.3v anyway), and write a smaller daemon … Continue reading →

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Awesome installation by Yayoi Kusama

Posted on April 28, 2008 by mahto

We went to the Phoenix Art Museum today to catch the Monet, Matisse and More exhibit. Though that was pretty cool, and showed how paintings evolve over time, my favorite part by far was an installation called ‘You Who Are … Continue reading →

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Analysis of the Millis() Function

Posted on April 15, 2008 by mahto

I recently started an art clock project which actually needed to be run for more than just a few hours, and ran head on into a known issue with the millis() function of the Arduino library. I finally got some … Continue reading →

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