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MAX232 "Business cards"
While organising to have some business cards printed for networking at an upcoming conference, I could not find anything which I thought were both professional and ‘geeky enough’. As a result, I did what any self-respecting geek would do: Attempted to over-engineer a ‘solution’ to a trivial problem. This is...
RFM22B and the Arduino Pro Mini
As part of new project to monitor a few systems around the house I have been looking for a stable way to collect and transmit data to a central location as part of a sensor network. This project lead me to the RFM22B, after a recommendation from a colleague around...
Messing with Telstra USB + WIFI Dongles (ZTE MF70) (Part 1)
Earlier today I made a trip down to a local electronics store looking for a low cost Telstra 3G dongle I could pull apart for use in a project. I found exactly what I was looking for in a AUD$25.00 Telstra E353T dongle, however, much to my dismay, they were...
Raspberry Pi, Python and I2C (Part 1)
As part of a recent project, I have had to take a crash course in I2C in order to interface with a number of sensors - namely an accelerometer and gyroscope. I’ve included some of the issues I came across in this post, as it may assist someone else out...
Arch Linux on the MK802 (Part 6)
Although far from perfect, and a little bit - okay, a lot - verbose on the serial console, I’ve compiled and uploaded an ArchLinux MK802 image which is working on my MK802 1GB. It’s worth noting that the image itself is only 2GB as it was built for a 2GB...