Over the past few months I have been building a sensor device with a embedded webserver for configuration and reporting. When a user saves a configuration to the device the device needs to be restarted before the changes come in to effect. While the device is restarting the webserver is unreachable and the users get [...]
This project has somewhat hit a road block and with 12 days left before Maker Faire I’m starting to panic. This leaves me with ~4 good working days left. Here is my current stats. Editor and Simulator At burning man 2010 I saw the Illuminatrix made by Ben Delarre. A RGB LED color grid that was programmable from [...]
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I have decided to create a 64x RGB LED POV Globe for Maker faire and Buring man this year. This project is a factor more complex then any other project that I have attempted before, and quite a bit more expensive. My project will be similar to this project watch?v=4KN0xoHsUiI But my project has more LEDs, it will play almost [...]
App inventor for android was just recently released for everyone to play with. I looked in to it hoping I could create a simple EveryDayFiction feed reader app but it doesn’t seem to support Get RSS feed just yet. So I created a simple sensor reading app that reads all the sensors on the phone [...]
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Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-Gmb H & Co. (Kosmos), under the name Die Siedler von Catan. Tricks and Tactics Placing Your First Settlement and City Place your first settlements with access to brick and wood. This will [...]
Bam to behold, a public bulletin board, built of both brilliance and barbarity by bastards with boners. This bastion, no mere bulwark of boredom, is a brutal barrage of blistering bullshit, barely benevolent… but behind the bigotry and boobs, beyond the bitter broadcasts of bragging buffoons: here be the body politic. A brotherhood of blasphemy, [...]
Have you heard about the ‘Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement,’ The agreement is being structured much like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) except it will create rules and regulations regarding private copying and copyright laws. Federal trade agreements do not require parliamentary approval. The deal would create a international regulator that could turn border guards [...]