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The “command | shift | period” combination toggles hidden file visibility in Snow Leopard thanks to LifeHacker

September 18, 2009 Computing

Arduino course

Arduino Processing LED Brightness Test from thepikey on Vimeo.

So I went to the Tinker.it course on Arduino today which was a interesting experience. The class was a small group of around 10 people with a mix of backgrounds. There were 3 guys from an Electrical Engineering degree which I thought was quite strange as surely they would know this stuff inside out but actually I did learn quite a lot for them as they were keen to press on with some complex stuff. I did manage to get processing interfacing with the Arduino kit which was my goal so now I am pretty happy to make some interesting projects with physical computing. I saved some videos of some of the sample projects and stuck them on Vimeo.

  1. Knight Rider LED Example
  2. Processing LED Brightness Test
  3. Light Sensor Test 02
  4. Light Sensor Test 01
  5. Simple Button Test

February 23, 2008 Computing, Programming

Tinker It – Arduino

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I have signed up for a course in Arduino which I am really looking forward to. Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform and I am hoping to combine it with some processing work. You can find courses on Tinker

February 2, 2008 Programming

Searching the web Fravia(Style)

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I have been doing a lot of research at work recently and have had to adopt a lot of advanced search methods to get what I was looking for. In order to do this I returned to the search master Fravia and went through my notes and watched his lectures again to get back up to speed. The image above is from a lecture Fravia gave at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and it details his idea the only 1/3 of the web is indexed by search engines meaning that there is a huge amount of material on the web but is not accessible via search engines such as google & yahoo. I have included links to 3 of Fravia’s lectures if your feeling like you would like to learn how to search more effectivly!

  1. Recon 2006
  2. Recon 2005
  3. Ravensbourne College 2004

February 1, 2007 Computing

Be* Broadband

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Amazing new broadband from Be. This is pretty impressive as I’m getting 17meg download and around 2.5meg upload, and all this for £18 per month. It kind of makes a joke of any for my other previous providers such as Tiscalli, BT and NTL. They also have a referral programme so if you refer a customer you get 1 month free and the new customer also gets the 1st month free. If you manage to refer 24 customer you get broadband for life!

I have managed to move a few people over already and we got some lines at work too. Just another 20 or so to go!

February 1, 2007 Computing