Last night, I decided to have a go with Tmux the terminal multiplexer. This is a really useful utility that can if used in the right way improve productivity. In this example I have top running on the bottom window with a blank terminal not running anything at the top, in some ways this can…
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Adventures with Arduino Part 27
I have recently replaced my broken Arduino UNO R3 with a new one. I am now experimenting with a HC5883L 3 axis magnetic compass module. Details here With the official page here. (recommended) You will also need to download libraries.rar from http://www.ardumotive.com/digital-compass.html and extract it in to your libraries folder, then restart the Arduino IDE….
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Anyone following this blog will know that I am involved with ToriOS. ToriOS is a GNU / Linux based system designed for low power and low memory systems, hence support for non-PAE hardware. ToriOS is currently in the late stages of development, and we would like more testers for the daily build iso files. More…
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As my notepad program now has an option to encode text using ROT13, I have written a very basic (and rough) program to just do that. The program is very basic, and just encodes the text, the code is as follows: For reference the original code can be found here. The program is more…
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This evening I soldered up the Traffic light project I blogged about in Part 8 of this series, this was the first of the two projects as in just a red , yellow , green sequence. There isn’t really room on here to have the 2 x 3mm leds for red / green man. This…
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Today after I got back from the Torbay tech jam, I decided to expand upon the previous traffic lights project. This time adding a red / green 3mm LED for the red / green man found on UK pedestrian crossings. So to update the code block below: Photo of project Code for the project can…
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Today, I took a big step forward in the Development of the manual for the ToriOS operating system. Last week I added 2 tables of links to resources mentioned in the manual. Today these tables were replaced with a proper bibliography, from which resources cited within the manual are listed. So for example, early on…
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Today I installed the BrickPi disk image to a SD card and tested this in on of my Raspberry Pi’s it boots up fine and has lots of neat items on the desktop. So looking forward to getting back in a school to experiment with this properly with a BrickPi.For those of you who…
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For the purpose of clarity, here is the full magic 8 gui program, Feel free to copy / paste and run.
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Now that we can place both labels and buttons we can combine the two, so that the buttons have labels, this is not really needed but this also shows how we can display two objects of a different type within a window. There is no real need to explain the code, as the previous 2…
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