MacBook Core Duo Goes Solid State
Why Replace My 2006 MacBook HDD with SSD My MacBook is the 2006 original; the white Core Duo 32bit. I got it upon starting University and that ended up taking six years. Amazingly, it is still going...
View ArticleBootCamp Partition Virtual Machine with VirtualBox
I’ve had a BootCamp partition on my Macbook since it bought it; I waited specifically for the Intel CoreDuo Macbooks. Sometimes I don’t want to restart just to run an app or test something out, so...
View ArticleAirPi: DIY Airplay Speakers using Shairport and a Raspberry Pi Updated
My last AirPi post has been popular – and still is – but part of why of like Arch linux is that it is constantly updating so you must be hands on, learning a new part of the OS the hard way! Since my...
View ArticleBoblight with Raspbmc – Ambilight Clone
When I first started seeing the Ambilight (Philips’s lighting system that allows the display to bleed out) clones popping up I knew I wanted to create one myself. The open-source system has been fairly...
View ArticleBoblight Web GUI Control RaspBMC
Since setting up an boblight on my RaspBMC, I’ve been wanting a nice gui to manage it; turn it on and off, change colours. I was going to make a plugin to improve my Python knowledge but decided a web...
View ArticleBuilding Atmel Studio ASF Project using External Makefile
The Atmel Studio IDE is a useful tool thanks to the comprehensive debugging support and management of project drivers via the Atmel Software Framework (ASF) – coming from a hardcore Vim advocate. One...
View ArticleDeveloping Simulink Device Drivers for ARM Cortex
Simulink Embedded Coder offers an ARM Cortex-M support toolbox, which includes code optimisation for the MCU and QEMU emulation but lacks any S-Block drivers for the device. The lack of drivers limits...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi DAC – MCP4725 with wiringPi
The Raspberry Pi lacks a DAC but using the I2C bus, one can easily add a device like the 12bit MCP4725. The GPIO library wiringPi provides support for I2C devices, however, getting the MCP4725 working...
View ArticleSimulink Raspberry Pi Driver Blocks
Following on from adding support to wiringPi for the MCP4725 DAC, I wanted to add driver blocks to Simulink such that one could use them to create graphical models for the Raspberry Pi that could...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Data Logger with InfluxDB and Grafana
A need popped up at work for a data logger for various lab tasks. Quickly looking at the market, I failed to identify a lab tool for data logging (cheap, easy but powerful setup, remote access);...
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