After my post yesterday about the ‘rallyduino’ a few people emailed me asking for the source, so I threw everything together quickly into a Google Code hosted project. I did want to get it into SVN anyway as having only local copies was starting to get me nervous. The project page can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/rallyduino/ Or to […]
Rallyduino?
[Update: This system is now complete and working. See details at http://noisymime.org/blog/2009/05/rallyduino-lives/] So recently I’ve started playing slightly more seriously with my Arduino, I’ve even gone so far as having a plan on what the hell to do with it. For some time I’ve wanted to try my hand at putting together a homemade Rally computer and the […]
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Gloss 0.1!
I know I’ve been promising to do another screencast, specifically showing the music player in Gloss, but I’m afraid it isn’t done. What is done however is Gloss 0.1, including a new screencast showing all its features! Whilst being very much a developer / testing release, it is moderately stable and works ‘out of the box’ on multiple […]
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Wireless woes
For a long time, one thing that has always solicited gasps from my technological friends is that I run my home wifi connection without any encryption or MAC blocking. It is free for anyone within range to use without my permission and, in most instances, I won’t even be aware it’s happened. I do this for a number […]
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Network storage – The ugly side
I’ve read a few blogs posts recently regarding consumer NAS devices, specifically linux based ones (See entries from Peter Hardy and Matt Bottrell) and, for the most part, these have been fairly positive. So as a warning to others, I thought I’d pop up my experience. A few weeks back I got a call from my Dad saying […]
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Indecision
I thought I should post a bit of an update on the status of things at the moment. An article which was published on linux.com recently (http://www.linux.com/feature/135096) has generated a bit of interest in Gloss and whilst for the most part the comments have been positive, there have been a few questioning my motives and/or saying its a […]
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Slack updates
I’ve been a bit slack on the posts lately, although it is at least in part due to the fact that I’ve felt like I’ve nothing to say. I took a bit of a break from coding for a week or so as work has been doing my head in lately and have had a few technical hurdles […]
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Where’s the music?
One of the things I’ve been constantly delaying on Gloss is the development of the music player module. For a long time this was simply because I had no idea in my own head about what it should look like. I’ve bitched and moaned along with all the others about the existing MythMusic interface, but when it was […]
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TV, the drug of a nation
So time for another update, this time accompanied by a mini screencast. Recently I’ve been focussing on the TV functionality part of Gloss as it has been a bit neglected since it was first written. The backend streaming code has received a partial rewrite (Still very much in progress) that aims to lay the code out in a […]
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Hardware fun
After attending Jon Oxer’s fantastic talk at lca2008, “Joining Second Life to the Real World”, and purchasing one of the Arduino kits he had for sale, I’ve spent a bit of time reading up on both the board itself and stepper motor controllers. So this weekend I finally started putting something together. For a while dad and I […]
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