There was a fire at the building where I live. Luckily this wasn’t my corridor, and there were no injuries. The fire department was fast enough not to “allow” me to take any pictures of the fire itself.
Blogging
The website is down
For all of you that haven’t seen this clip yet, you HAVE to see it!
Ozzy Osbourne – I don’t wanna stop
Here is me performing one of Ozzy’s songs. I didn’t try to play the solo, I have no chance!
Testing Sony DCR-DVD310
I tested my new video camera. Maybe I don’t play so well but the quality is quite good. Here is a sneak peak!
Day 0
Well I don’t do much of electronics projects any more so I’ll change the theme of this blog from electronics to anything you can imagine :)
For the next 17 days or something, I will post here pictures and news from my trip to Greece, I will try to keep the blog updated.
Now I have to pack my stuff and sleep some hours before the flight. So long!
UPDATE
Now I write from the Kastrup airport in Copenhagen, they have a nice wireless connection here. At least I get 5 pure Mbit/s download :)
My plane will leave in 50 minutes so now I have to go and find the gate. Adios!
Here is a nice traceroute from the airport to my server (this server):
C:\>tracert nile.dimme.net Tracing route to nile.dimme.net [85.24.184.189] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 3 ms 26 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.2 2 16 ms 5 ms 2 ms 194.182.142.2 3 19 ms 81 ms 58 ms ge-0-2-0-165.boanxj1.ip.tele.dk [80.63.55.129] 4 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms ge1-0-40.1000M.boanxg4.ip.tele.dk [83.88.9.129] 5 6 ms 6 ms 9 ms pos0-1-1-0.2488M.boanqh1.ip.tele.dk [83.88.12.41] 6 8 ms 12 ms 10 ms tge4-2.ign-p2.got.se.sn.net [83.88.4.186] 7 7 ms 9 ms 10 ms tge1-1.ign-peer2.got.se.sn.net [88.131.143.118] 8 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 195.69.116.85 9 20 ms 18 ms 18 ms c7600-limhamn.mlm-rr1.bahnhof.net [85.24.151.203] 10 19 ms 18 ms 21 ms limhamn-mmo.c3750-stortorget.bahnhof.net [85.24.151.30] 11 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms stortorget-mmo.c3750-lund.bahnhof.net [85.24.151.125] 12 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms h-81-170-179-100.NA.cust.bahnhof.se [81.170.179.100] 13 20 ms 30 ms 24 ms h-85-24-184-189.NA.cust.bahnhof.se [85.24.184.189] Trace complete.
BLS – No Other
This is a cover by me. Black Label Society – No Other.
WebVisitors blinker
I already wrote my first Arduino program. It’s really simple but fun :)
What it does is that every time somebody visits my website, a LED light blinks once in my room, and I get a warm feeling of a visitor ;)
How to do that:
- Burn this code to your Arduino:
- Connect a LED light to pin 12 and ground it.
- Connect your Arduino to your web server through USB.
- Log in to your web server and type: “sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0”.
- Add this PHP code to your website header:
- Enjoy! :)
In case this doesn’t work; try to solve your problem or comment this article and I will try to help you.
Foxhole radio
I was searching the Internet for a schema to make a simple AM-radio and I found this cool video at MakeZine.
Here is a PDF with the instructions.
Hand-powered POV video
Here is a short video to show you how the POV is working.
As you will probably notice, the camera refresh rate is much faster than me. This should not be a problem once the POV is on a fast enough motor.
Hand-powered POV version 2
Today I received the 330Ohm-resistors and bright blue LEDs I ordered. Each LED now has its own resistor, which makes all of them equally bright all the time.
So now I removed the old LEDs, replaced them with new ones, and moved them to the board to be on a straighter line. Now the LEDs are connected so that I don’t need the mirror()-function anymore. That makes the program faster and more synchronized. I also changed a bit the led()-function as I noticed that every led()-function was followed by a wait()-function and implemented some more characters.
Here are some new pictures and the new code:
