I bought a Seeedstudio Xadow recently, and to get it to work with Arduino 1.6.3 was bit of a pain. Long story short, you can find the necessary files along with pithy instructions at my github repo.
The most crucial difference between the files Seeedstudio supplied and what …
I do all my 3D design in Blender, producing models fit for 3D printing. It isn't as hard as it sounds as long as you keep to the following rules:
Previously we found that PyPy achieves the best performance gain, executing fieldfunc_py in ~6 us. At the end of that article, I mentioned that the C implementation is up to 50x faster, managing the same calculation in ~0.12 us.
The naive conclusion is that the best thing is to …
Recently I found myself looking at the following piece of code and trying to optimise it:
from __future__ import division
import numpy as np
MagneticPermeability = 4*np.pi*1e-7
MagneticPermeabilityOver4Pi = MagneticPermeability / (4*np.pi)
def fieldfunc_py(p, q, moment):
r = p - q
rmag = np.sqrt(r.dot(r))
rdash3 = rmag …If you want to play Child of Light on PS Vita, you will not only need to download the online update, you will also need to set your system language to English (US). If you have it set as English (UK) then you will continue seeing the game in Japanese …
This is sort of a placeholder post. Busy meeting a deadline, but this should help future Steve and anyone else when you need to turn your Lyx document into a Word document while keeping the format mostly sane. Broken, but sane.
Latex (plain). Run
latex <name of tex … |
Fluorescence image of cavitation effects,visualised using FITC-Dextran. |
If, like me, you use Nikon's NIS Elements to do fluorescence imaging, you would have also noticed that nothing other than NIS Elements can read the metadata that is saved with TIFFs. ImageJ can't read it, the GIMP can't read it, tiffinfo …
Simply set the language for non-unicode programs to Chinese (PRC) and it will magically work.
N.B. You must have first installed files for East Asia Languages in Languages Tab for this to work.
Cheers,
Steve
So it turns out that if you google vaccination on google.com.au, Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) comes up as the second result, right after wikipedia.
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| Search results from google.com.au for "vaccination" as of 20th of May 2013 |
As some of you may know, AVN is an anti-vaccination …
I subscribe to The Moth, and had previously selected all episodes to be sync'd to my iPhone. Recently I found myself short on space, so I wanted to tell iTunes 11 to stop doing that. Previously, it was a simple case of multiple selection in a list and uncheck, but …
If you are getting the error
"Unknown control sequence: \doublespacing" when you try to compile your
beamer presentation in Lyx, change
Document→Settings→Text Layout→Line spacing
to Single.
Cheers,
Steve
Calibre is a great tool, especially for converting between ebook formats. Here are some notes for getting it to run on a headless server.
Definitely the Kindle. Amazon offers an amazing service, especially their personal document service's email feature. That is simply divine. Furthermore, Amazon isn't nearly so annoying to use as a non-US citizen. I don't have to use a trick credit card or proxies to purchase ebooks. Amazon just sells them to …
Pixelmator wins hands down. Compared to Pixelmator Acorn is anaemic in terms of features and costs more than twice as much.
Disclosure: I originally got Acorn as part of MacHeist, so I didn't pay full price for it. I did pay full price for Pixelmator.
Cheers,
Steve
I used to use Jumpcut a long time ago, and was a big fan of it. At some point, I think around 10.5, it stopped working, and I let it go -- too busy at the time to poke at it.
Recently however my interest in it was piqued again …
Foreword: It has been four years or so since the world went through the throes of financial upheaval known as the Great Financial Crisis. It was a complex event that will not doubt be analysed in depth by experts for years, if not centuries to come, as an example of …
Over this weekend I have been working on faerii, a USB controlled RGB LED based around the ATtiny85.
Here is a picture of the breadboard prototype
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| faerii breadboard prototype |