2x16 character LCD displays can be tricky beasts. I got mine working today with my seeeduino (an arduino compatible board with more awesome), and really wished I had known that:
The contrast pin needs to be in the same power network as the power and ground pins. The contrast pin …
Apparently only the hosts need safety screens
Cheers,
Steve
You can’t be serious.
You wants to filter all Internet connections now, without the option of opting out?! You want every Australian to be on a list so you can see who is “naughty” and who isn’t?!
You can’t be serious.
You wants to filter all illegal …
"...Why should small business take a hit for a public health measure?" -- Dr Hearnden
I am amazed a doctor of all people would utter such capitalistic remark.How can a doctor question whether or not it is in the business' interest to improve public health?
Businesses derive their income from …
But you can get the current function's name by using:
sys._getframe().f_code.co_name
Seems to work alright for debugging purposes. See the link embedded in the title for the origins and 3 other methods.
Cheers,
Steve
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There is it, the new current limited H-bridge for my team's SUMO entry. Put it together this afternoon, and will be mounted on a piece of perspex (which I forgot to bring home) and then mounted on the robot.
Statistics:
Numbered …
Live long and prosper!
Cheers,
Steve
Ever since I got my 2nd monitor, I been using VNC to work on my laptop. Leopard's inbuilt VNC server isn't really VNC compliant, and has many issues when used with a normal VNC client. I have found Vine server to be an excellent replacement. The client side is a …
Been playing around with my LEGO RIS2.0 kit I got for my birthday. Its great!
Some tips for getting it to all work under OS X Tiger:
If iwconfig wlan0 essid blah is seemingly not working when connecting to a open wireless network, then try
iwconfig wlan0 essid blah
iwconfig wlan0 key open
iwconfig wlan0 enc off
The above seems to work for me by turning off encryption. It would appear with encryption enabled, iwconfig won't work …
Running grub-install with a XFS partition will likely fail - there is a reason lilo is used when XFS is root! The issue is grub-install creates the stage files in /boot/grub, which grub then expects to find when it accesses the disk directly using its own file system drivers. For …
Perhaps I am naive, but I expect those people in Government to have some resemblance of intelligence and be able to apply this very useful thing called logic. Michael Atkinson obviously isn't one such person. His recent reply to the demand for R18+ classification for Electronic Games [1] demonstrates a …
There is a lot of complaining over the Federal Government’s various schemes to reduce our carbon emission. Some of these are valid concerns, yet others are nothing more than short-sighted yapping of the unwashed. Here is a typical example of such a thing:
“if Australia cuts or carbon emissions …
I have set up an unofficial git respository for libfg patches and new swig generated python interface, as Gavin Baker (the author) appears to be busy with other things. This is a maintance only repository as far as libfg goes - I don't plan on adding any more features (since all …
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Half way mark to a 4 channel motion controller. Version 3 of the layout seems to work well and …
Thats right, another webapp! This time using google's app engine, so feel free to abuse it, somewhat :P
Rank'em is its name, and it basically lets you create a collection of Things then allow other people to rank each Thing against each other, producing an overall ranking of Things …
From the website:
“StarStuff is ABC NewsRadio's flagship Astronomy, Cosmology, Space and Science program. “
It is hosted by Stuart Gary and it is the only public program on TV or radio which is dedicated to science.
And it is about to be axed to make way for a 30 minute …
An follow up on the last round of language personifications, this time contributed by brett.
The crazy party girl you meet at Uni; she's easy to get along with at the beginning; she reminds you of other girls you've known before and hey, its a bit of fun; you're …
Take the article linked to in the topic, and replace "paedophiles" with "witches":
Victorians rally for more public info on witches
Posted 5 hours 28 minutes agoMore transparency: hundreds rallied in Melbourne today. (AAP Image: Simon Mossman)
Hundreds of people rallied in Melbourne today, calling for the Victorian government …
You will be sorely missed.
Cheers,
Steve