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 iOS, Windows, Linux and even for the … Continue reading →
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 very hard … Continue reading →
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 →
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 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 way … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →