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Has the world ended yet? A first attempt at web development
Despite the sheer nuttiness of it, everyone keeps going on about the end of the world as “predicted” by the Mayan calendar. National Geographic even had and entire day devoted to it. Building on that theme, I decided to make a very convenient (and pretty much useless) webpage that helps you figure out if the […]
Posted in: Programming, Web Applications
Velo Orange Temple Bell!
June 2, 2012
My Surly Long Haul Trucker has fairly thick handle bars and I never had much luck finding a bell that would fit. Lacking a bell turns out to be a huge problem on Calgary pathways, which are regularly populated by slow and often oblivious pedestrians. For a while now I have relied on verbal warnings, […]
Posted in: Bicycles
BeagleBone: Making a Home Media Server
May 24, 2012
There are plenty of products available to the person who wants a functioning NAS out of the box, though I’ve never really been that type. By using a versatile board like the BeagleBone as a home media server, I can make a project that is more than a simple networked storage solution. It also affords […]
Beaglebone: Making a Case
May 13, 2012
I recently purchased a BeagleBone with the intent of using it to make a home server and media box that could run constantly without costing a small fortune when the power bill arrived. I originally intended to make this project using a raspberry pi, though they’re having serious issues satisfying the demand, and I have […]
Posted in: BeagleBone, Electronics
Nyan
April 2, 2012
This is a really simple modification of an existing program found here. All I have done is included a system call to mplayer that loads a short 27 second .wav file of the nyan cat background music and loops it for as long as the program is running. Obviously this requires one to have the […]
Posted in: Programming
December 16, 2012
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