Use your Nokia N9 as a MPD client
The Media Player Daemon (MPD) is a great tool to use a diskstation, PC or other network device with a sound card as a streaming client. There are many clients available, i.e. for … Continue reading →
George Ruinelli
Add USB-serial support to your Synology Diskstation
The Synology Diskstations do not support USB to serial converters (i.e. FTDI) out of the box. How ever, since Synology is so nice and publishes the kernel sources (its under GPL, so they actually have to), its not … Continue reading →
MiniBible with new features
I am happy to announce a new version of MiniBible. MiniBible is a free offline bible reader for the Harmattan (Maemo 6/MeeGo) based Nokia mobile phone N9. It supports currently more than hundred bible translations in over fifty languages. Some … Continue reading →
How to use V-USB on an attiny85
V-USB is a project from the company Objective Development Software GmbH to bring basic USB support to any micro controller. This is what they say about it: V-USB is a software-only implementation of a low-speed USB device for Atmel’s AVR® … Continue reading →
Graphical LCD controlled by only 2 wires
Graphical display controlled with only 2 wires Programming a micro controller is much easier if you can do debugging. How ever this is often not available or only very limited. I usually debug my applications with a display. This … Continue reading →
Linux, the Sandy-Bridge CPU and the HD3000 GPU
For all those who are wondering how great the Linux support with the new Sandy-Bridge CPUs are, I can let you know, It works great! As the guys from Phoronix already showed in www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_sandy_speed&num=1 Linux runs quite well, as long … Continue reading →
How to sync egroupware with a tablet N900 with syncevolution.
Until now, I was using googles address book and calendar service to sync my phones address book and calendar with my PC. As I don’t like to share my personal data with google, I always was looking for an alternative. … Continue reading →
New SleepAnalyser
Recording options Once again I could move a new version of my SleepAnalyser into the stable tree of the Maemo repositories. Beside small changes and bugfixes it also has many new features: Lucid dream music option Wake up music option … Continue reading →
SleepAnalyser in new stable version
SleepAnalyser with new features I am pleased to announce a new stable version (1.8-105) of SleepAnalyser. Compared to the last stable version a lot has changed. Beside a cleanup of the graphical user interface also a big part of the … Continue reading →
Convert RGB to HSV and back with a micro controller
It took me a while to find code examples how to convert an RGB color value into the equivalent HSV color space and back. Also it took me quite a while to adapt the code for my micro controller. For … Continue reading →