Robots
— DougWe are all robots in one way or another. We all have goals and we all have constraints that we have to work within. There's nothing wrong with being a robot, we just have to accept it.
Bits of Cents — Disassembling the Dash
— DougBits of Cents — Disassembling the Dash
Disassembling the Dash On Thursday I got an email from Amazon saying I had been selected to try out two Dash buttons at zero cost. To be honest it as kind of surprising given that although we order from them plenty, I can’t …
Arduino IDE Becomes More Open, Less Snarky | Hackaday
— DougArduino IDE Becomes More Open, Less Snarky | Hackaday
More info at: Arduino IDE Becomes More Open, Less Snarky | Hackaday
KIM-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
— DougKIM-1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remembering the good ole days. This was one of my first computers. I had to punch in the hex values into memory locations. It was the brains of my for Robot project. I was in high school back in about 1980.
The KIM-1 consisted of …
All About The JPEG #SaturdayMorningCartoons «
— DougOur friends at Adafruit posted an article from SaturdayMorningCartoons explaining the JPG image format and how image compression works.
More info at: All About The JPEG #SaturdayMorningCartoons « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
Blocked Website
— DougFinally! It has been over a week since I could access this site from my home ISP. Everything looked ok on the traceroute except the very last IP would not respond. No email, no ftp, no web. In fact for all 800+ websites on the same hosted server, they were …
Apple shows their security hand
— DougApple released the details of their iOS security and all we get from the news is crickets. Think about this a moment. We have more important information on-line then we have ever had in the history of the world. It has always been at risk and there are daily news …
Thoughts on Apple's new iWatch or Whatever
— DougEveryone is designing a new watch that looks and acts just like an old watch. Look at Pebble, look at Samsung. They don’t get it. If Apple were to design a new watch it wouldn’t look and act like an old watch with just a few features added …
Spark | Wi-Fi for Everything
— DougMeet the Spark Core.
A tiny Wi-Fi development board that makes it easy to create internet-connected hardware. The Core is all you need to get started; power it over USB and in minutes you'll be controlling LEDs, switches and motors and collecting data from sensors over …
NEW PRODUCT – Rosie Revere, Engineer « adafruit industries blog
— DougNEW PRODUCT – Rosie Revere, Engineer « adafruit industries blog
More info at: NEW PRODUCT – Rosie Revere, Engineer « adafruit industries blog
Easy build: Make a bubble in a Q-tip cube
— DougEasy build: Make a bubble in a Q-tip cube
Everyone should make a square bubble.
More info at: Easy build: Make a bubble in a Q-tip cube
