All posts of a remotely technical nature should be associated with this category.
It started with - I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same. - These are my nominations.
What is a clock? What is a calendar? How can one do the job of the other? In this series of articles, Smiffy describes a project in which an everyday quartz clock is converted into a solar calendar - the Solstice Clock. Part 3 presents the circuit schematic and board layout of the prototype Solstice Clock.
What is a clock? What is a calendar? How can one do the job of the other? In this series of articles, Smiffy describes a project in which an everyday quartz clock is converted into a solar calendar - the Solstice Clock. Part 2 tells of a simplification of the original concept, more things that the clock can do, and choosing a microcontroller and clock crystal to drive it.
Smiffy starts preparing to migrate to a new Linux distribution. This article explains how and why.
I am in the process of designing a simple MIDI control surface, all design information to be released under a Creative Commons license.
Vision Australia is running their popular Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008.
This is about the fourth generation of this programme that I have been using over the last few years to generate SQL and Perl code based on a MySQL database schema. The idea behind this is much repetitive coding can be eliminated - the ouput of this programme can be tweaked/corrected and then cut and pasted into an application.
Smiffy designs a retro-look kitchen timer to suit his needs.
Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox extension that allows enhanced control over tabbed browsing.
Smiffy meets the eyeProd, er, iPod Nano.
