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By Anton Piatek, on March 2nd, 2013% The Southackton group had a pretty good meetup last thursday. Lots of fun things going on. There were walking robots, autonomous wheeled robots, RF hacking of LightWaveRF remote control systems, arduinos, raspberry pis and more. Also, there was cake!
Autonomous robots
Benjie RF hacking
Mark supplying cake
Hacking some android hardware
. . . → Read More: Southackton meetup on Thursday
By Anton Piatek, on February 14th, 2012% tmux is an alternative to gnu screen. While I like screen, it annoys me that any effort you have put into splitting the screen and arranging panes is not preserved when you detach and reattach to a session. tmux allows this quite easily, and there is a shortcut key to toggle through various automatic layouts . . . → Read More: tmux – an alternative to GNU screen
By Anton Piatek, on December 8th, 2011% I have been flicking through the following FAQ on the GNU GPL: Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF). I am trying to understand the risks that we are told about regularly in IBM of working with/on Open Source code.
I have to say that most of . . . → Read More: Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL
By Anton Piatek, on January 17th, 2011% I had a spare Matrix Orbital 20×4 character LCD floating about so I decided to try and connect it up to my Arduino. The display is a LK204-25, which is a brilliant little serial display, with support for a 25 button keypad and six outputs that can be used to control power to something else.
. . . → Read More: Arduino talking to an I2C LCD display
By Anton Piatek, on January 6th, 2011% This is a very geeky topic, but I was having a conversation at work today with someone who was trying to do several really simple things in parallel in perl because they didn’t want to wait several minutes for each one to finish. They had knocked up a change to the existing perl, but had . . . → Read More: process forking in perl
By Anton Piatek, on December 13th, 2010% Are you using an Arduino Uno on Linux? If so, you may have noticed that writing to the serial port in a loop can cause the Arduino Editor/Programmer software to appear to lock up, or even Linux having trouble using the serial port for your Uno.
It turns out there was a bug in the . . . → Read More: Fix your Arduino Uno for Linux
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