http://www.laen.org Chaos is the raw material of order Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:06:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en RAD - Microcontroller development using Ruby. ... http://www.laen.org/2009/03/30/links-for-2009-03-30/ CupCake CNC Kit Presale – MakerBot Industries The MakerBot CupCake 3D Printer. $750, and comes with five ... http://www.laen.org/2009/03/27/links-for-2009-03-27/ Gangster Gadget makes awesome and reasonably priced protoboards to assist in making electronic projects. They’re through-hole plated, high quality boards, and fun to hack on. They’ve just released a new board they call their Boss Board. It has spots for a PS2 connector, Audio/Video jacks, and even an NES ... http://www.laen.org/2009/03/27/gangster-gadget-protoboards/ In producing our wedding thank you letters, I found I needed a template for Avery’s “Embossed Note Cards.” I couldn’t find any online, so I made my own. 8317 Embossed Note Card Template for Photoshop (PSD) http://www.laen.org/2009/03/25/avery-8317-embossed-note-cards-template/ I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect wedding, to a more perfect girl. http://www.laen.org/2009/03/24/married/ Here’s how to grab a single frame from a live video stream using GStreamer on Linux in Ruby. The trick is to use the “last_buffer” property on your video sink. That contains the last frame that was displayed to your screen. You can use RMagick to convert that into something you ... http://www.laen.org/2009/03/24/taking-pictures/ Nv network – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... http://www.laen.org/2009/03/10/links-for-2009-03-10/ http://andersonlab.qb3.berkeley.edu/Tutorials/Bare_Bones_Biochemistry.htm The chemistry basics of biology ... http://www.laen.org/2009/02/17/links-for-2009-02-17/ ecoparti – earth friendly favors and party accessories! Confetti made of the same stuff as cornstarch packing peanuts. ... http://www.laen.org/2009/02/13/links-for-2009-02-13/ MSP430 Solar Energy Harvesting Development Tool – EZ430-RF2500-SEH – TI Tool Folder ... http://www.laen.org/2009/02/06/links-for-2009-02-06/ List of 7400 series integrated circuits – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... http://www.laen.org/2009/02/05/links-for-2009-02-05/ ladyada’s ranting » Blog Archive » The chemistry of home-etched PCBs ... http://www.laen.org/2009/01/27/links-for-2009-01-27/ I’m learning Ruby, and as an early project, I thought I’d write a little SOAP server for exposing Solaris “kstat” output to the network. It’s embryonic, but it works. I’d like to do a little more input sanitation, since it’s certainly possible to really hurt your server by requesting a ... http://www.laen.org/2009/01/26/a-soap-kstat-server-for-solaris/ Arduinome Complete! PeterMarks.info ... http://www.laen.org/2009/01/20/links-for-2009-01-20/ Lab3 – Labor fr experimentelle Informatik ... http://www.laen.org/2009/01/14/links-for-2009-01-14/ First day at work in a week. It’s like I just got back from a vacation. # Need new year’s party! # Where are the good parties in Portland this New Year? # Sounds like Backspace/Ground Kontrol will be fun, as does Someday Lounge, and Saucebox has DJ Mr. Mumu and DJ ... http://www.laen.org/2009/01/04/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-01-04/ JGroups – The JGroups Project ... http://www.laen.org/2008/12/31/links-for-2008-12-31/ The Extended Mind ... http://www.laen.org/2008/12/19/links-for-2008-12-19/ Image evolution (tags: ... http://www.laen.org/2008/12/11/links-for-2008-12-11/ For dorkbotpdx last night, I made this little toy: It’s an 8×8 red+green LED Matrix, driven by three shift registers driven by a Bare Bones Board Freeduino by Modern Device Company. Before the meeting I just had it flashing fun patterns based on odd bit-math equations. During the meeting, I was ... http://www.laen.org/2008/05/13/the-wii-matrix-board/ Analog pins 0-5 on the Arduino can be accessed as digital IO pins. They’re numbered 14-19. http://www.laen.org/2008/05/06/arduino-hot-tip-of-the-day/ I just received this set of prototyping boards from ucHobby and their sponsor Wright Hobbies!! Hooray! I’m psyched. I have some projects I want to do that these boards will be perfect for. http://www.laen.org/2008/04/23/prototyping-boards-from-uchobby-and-wright-hobbies/ In order to encourage us to play with electronics more, JWA and I have begun doing monthly challenges. For our inaugural challenge, we decided upon an LED Birthday Candle. This is my entry to that challenge. You blow the center pole towards one side, and the LED shuts off. ... http://www.laen.org/2008/03/21/electronic-birthday-candle/ This is a Blog entry using Jott. This is using the Jott service, a voice to text service that so far is free, hurray. listen Powered by Jott http://www.laen.org/2008/03/20/this-is-a-blog-entry/ My Wiichuck adaptor arrived a couple of days ago, and I just hooked it up.  As my first project, I’ve written this, which uses the Wii nunchuck as a musical instrument.Source code: Freqin’ WiiHook a speaker to the output pin (defined below, 13 by default), and hook the Wii adapter up to analog ... http://www.laen.org/2008/03/03/freqin-wii/  The electronic man holds his joy aloft.  He loves it, because he was built to love it.  It shines with the energy that courses through his body.  He wants to share his Light with the world, but fears that if he lets it go, he’ll never know it’s glow again.  http://www.laen.org/2008/03/02/awed-by-the-beauty-of-the-light/ I’ve recently become enraptured with a little microcontroller development board called the Arduino (pronounced “Arr-dwee-no”). This little thing is a great way to get started with electronics. You hook some electronic component to it, write a little bit of C, upload it to the board, and “tada!”, you’ve invented some ... http://www.laen.org/2008/01/01/arduino/ 1 box double cheese hamburger helper 2 cups nonfat milk 1 1/2 cups hot water 6.5 ounces whole wheat rotini 1 pound frozen chopped spinach 1/2 pound ground turkey Prepare as per box instructions. Yum! http://www.laen.org/2007/12/13/healthy-hamburger-helper/ 1 cup of rice 1 small can of mushrooms 1 carrot (sliced) 1/2 bell pepper (diced) 1 yellow or red potato (sliced into 1″ pieces) 1/2 onion (diced) 1 large tomato (quartered) 1 can vegetable or chicken broth 2 cans canned chicken (drained) 1 Tbsp paprika 2 Tbsp dried dill Salt and pepper to taste vegetable oil Saute the onion until soft, then ... http://www.laen.org/2007/09/19/vegetable-pilaf-with-chicken/ Advanced Message Queuing Protocol ..An open protocol for messaging systems. Some implementations of AMQP: * Apache QPID * RabbitMQ * OpenAMQ And some more information about it: * http://www.amqp.org/ http://www.laen.org/2007/04/23/rpcipc-and-messaging/