AR.Drone 2.0: first flights
I preorderd the AR.Drone last week at Amazon and it finally arrived here yesterday. The drone comes fully assembled in a huge box. Inside you'll find these components: Additionally there is also a charger for the LiPo-battery. The battery has a capacity of 1000mAh. The drone can be controlled by an ...
Arduino: OLED I2C display and Lightning Shield
Currently I'm working on two Arduino projects, both will upgrade my weather station. OLED I2C display The OLED is connected to an Arduino Nano via I2C and it measures the current voltage of the solar powered batteries. The OLED display is available at wide.hk for 16$. Lightning Shield The other project is pretty ...
Arduino: Speech control with the EasyVR Shield
Introduction Recently I've found an quite interesting Arduino shield on: http://www.veear.eu/Products/EasyVRShield.aspx. Using this shield you can control your Arduino using speech commands. The shield consists of these components: - EasyVR Arduino Shield (includes EasyVR module) - Microphone On the website you can also find following free software downloads (see link above): - User manual - EasyVR Commander - ...
MSP430 LaunchPad: Demo – Graphical programming with Grace
Around one year ago Texas Instruments launched a new ultra low cost MCU platform for it's MSP430 series, the LaunchPad. You can get it for just 4,30$ in the TI eStore. When I first tried to get started with the LaunchPad, I had some difficulties with the Code Composer Studio, the ...
Weekly Links (Week 10 / 2012)
How 30 Minutes a Day Can Increase Your Intelligence I totally agree. It also prevents you from burning out or getting stuck in your live. Stop wasting your time consuming stuff passively! Plan what you want to learn/consume and get it done.. Frighteningly ambitious startup ideas Mr. Graham is right. Some of these ...
Weekly Links (Week 9 / 2012)
This is the sixth round of weekly links. I tried to add a short comment to each one of them. Give it five minutes I should probably also let stuff sink in more often. I start to realize after my first years as developer, that it’s still a long way to go ...
My tool belt
As a web developer you need a bunch of good tools. I know that tools are something very personal, but maybe my choice contains some inspiration for your toolbelt. Toolbelt Picture from brockamer. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 Mac OS X Software 1Password 1Password is my password manager of choice. Why a password manager? ...
Weekly Links (Week 8 / 2012)
This week I was ill. I dind’t enjoy it - all I was able to do is to throw all the stories with interessting titles into Instapaper. And read them this morning. Some of these links contain real wisdom and made me think and the link “game of thrones” made me ...
Weekly Links (week 7, 2012)
This week I didn’t invest this much time to search for links. Though I again found some interesting gem’s that I do want to share with you. Programming Lisp: It’s Not About Macros, It’s About Read musicForProgramming(); Coding tricks of game developers Other interesting stuff What I’ve Learned About Smart People. How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy My ...
Network Link Conditioner – Throttling your network under Mac OS X
At home, we have a pretty slow internet connection. So whenever I perform my online backup, I hear cries of dismay since Hulu stops playing. So after trying to find a nice and simple solution for throttling my network throughput I found a system preference called "Network Link Conditioner". It comes bundled ...
Last weeks top links (week 6, 2012)
Another week, another bunch of links. Feels intimidating how many leaning ressources, articles and potential point & click adventures are out there. Programming Meta Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? Why there often is no single root cause for problems Suffering-oriented programming - a nice concept to ...
Last weeks top 5 links
As I already mentioned: Recently I find no time to blog. I learn, read, code and tinker in my spare time.. So - why not share some of the best stuff i stumble upon? I proudly present the first weekly link catapult! To come by these links I use Fever°, Zite, ...
Monkey Light – add 8 bits to your bike
I recently supported a Kickstarter.com project: Mini Monkey Light - 8-Bit Bike Light. It is a rugged, practical, high performance bike light that keeps you visible in all weather conditions. The Mini Monkey will be straped to the bikes spokes and displays 8-bit graphics on the spinning bike wheel. ...
Awesome learning ressources for web developers
Currently I don't find the time to blog regularly. Instead I will publish some links once in a while. Bildnachweis: "Learning Dream" von twenty_questions. (CC BY-NC 2.0) Codeschool Codeschool is a website, which publishes nice tech-courses on a regular basis. They consist of videos + an interactive part, where you have to solve ...
Buchempfehlung: Drive
Ich will nicht viele Worte verlieren über Drive. Ich habe das Buch vor einigen Monaten gelesen und nun ein nettes Video gefunden, was die Grundaussage ziemlich gut zusammenfasst: Bonuszahlungen funktionieren nicht so, wie man sich das denkt... Hier übrigens der Amazon-Link. (Listenbild: Motivation Stickers von rosipaw)Verwandte Artikel: Buchempfehlung: The Land of Lisp Amazon Marketplace, ...
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