The killer idea, death by invention
Sun, 31/08/08 – 2:59 | No Comment

1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design.
Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to …

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http.sh
Saturday, 31 Jan, 2009 – 2:15 | No Comment
http.sh

I’ve faffed with this one and poorly hacked some jquery and facebook connect examples along with trusty ol’ PHP on the front-end, on the back-end is a nice c scheduler engine which seems to be …

Just Feckin/Friggin/Fucking Google It
Sunday, 7 Dec, 2008 – 2:30 | No Comment
Just Feckin/Friggin/Fucking Google It

JFGIT.com was just a quick domain registration, modification of the google home page and a bit of mod_rewrite. It’s intended for the ‘education’ of people too lazy to use the wonderful search tool called Google.
How …

Ardunio Visible Distance Detector
Monday, 24 Nov, 2008 – 23:20 | One Comment
Ardunio Visible Distance Detector

I’ve had the Arduino Mini Pro for about 2 months now, but as I forgot to order/have some sort of USB FTDI converter I’ve not been able to play with it. As part of another …

Ardunio Visible Distance Detector v1.0 snippet
Monday, 24 Nov, 2008 – 23:09 | No Comment

/*
This code receives input from the SRF02 ultrasonic and maps the values to RGB outputs to a tri-colour LED.
*/

Arduino and HD44780 LCD
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 23:06 | 4 Comments
Arduino and HD44780 LCD

I’ve just been playing with a new HD44780 4×20 LCD from ebay on the Arduino. As I’m still ‘playing’ I’ve tried to document a kind of breadboard interface for the Arduino to LCD. It should …

Arduino and HD44780 LCD v1.0 snippet
Saturday, 20 Sep, 2008 – 23:04 | One Comment

/* LCD display with 4 DataPins
* ——–
*
* This is a example in how to use an LCD screen
* configured with data transfers over 2 x 4 bits. The example
* based on the “LCD Hola example” …