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- Simon Says
- In an effort to learn more about the capabilities of Atmel's range of "tiny" AVR microcontrollers I decided to build clone of the popular "Simon Says" game using an ATtiny45. The gist of the game is that it blinks out a pattern using the LEDs and you simply have to key in the same pattern [...]
- (Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:07:30 -0400)
- My Alarm Clock
- For the longest time I've been using an old CRT television as my alarm clock. It was very simple, there was a sub-menu in the TV's setup menu that allowed you to set a time for the television to turn on. This worked great for many years until I got rid of the TV. I [...]
- (Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:40:11 -0500)
- Creating Animated GIFs from Video Files
- It's surprisingly simple to create an animated GIF from a video file using only free software tools. I'll be using Avidemux and the GIMP for this tutorial. After opening the file in avidemux select the range of frames which you'd like to turn into an animated GIF using avidemux's A and B markers. Now it's [...]
- (Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:55:10 -0400)
- Panucci 0.3 ? A Polished Turd
- After a lengthy testing cycle Panucci 0.3 has been uploaded to Maemo Extras and is available to all Maemo 4.1 (Diablo) users that have the Extras repo enabled. Panucci 0.3 is a big step forward from 0.2, here's a brief run-down of what's changed: Bookmarks are stored in an SQLite database Playlists (m3u,pls) are fully [...]
- (Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:42:36 -0400)
- Using The Xv Overlay Adaptor By Default
- For most people the overlay adapter is a better choice than the textured video adaptor because you can use it with compiz and it doesn't have horizontal tearing on fast action scenes. The disadvantage, as pointed out by someone in #gstreamer is reduced color accuracy (iirc) but I don't notice it... If you have an [...]
- (Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:58:37 -0400)
