How To: Build a Custom Toolchain Using Crosstool-ng
This was originally posted at dodgejcr.com, however with the site going down and because of how useful I found it, I felt I should repost it as well as walk you through some of the problems I had creating my toolchain. Please note that this is setup around building a toolchain for the HTC Evo Shift which is on the ARMv7 processor. If you wanted to build a toolchain for something else you would change a few small things, however the underlying process would be the same. Read more
Finals are over
Another successful semester has finished, and I’m finally off for summer break, well besides my final project due in a week. If my summer goes as planned I will be releasing a few minor programs that I have bouncing around in my head. However among those programs I plan on writing, I also plan on doing some arduino work as well, for example I am going to be making a theremin based off some information I saw online, which will be a neat experiment to see what kind of improvements can be made. I also plan on making some sort of early warning system for griefers on minecraft servers, however these are all in the planning stages, for now it’s time to relax and maybe have a drink. A toast to another successful semester, and to the class of 2012.
Quarentine at URI: Major Rager Part 2
Reporting from the heart of the den, the University of Rhode Island has started locking down their library in preparation for a party which is planned to be thrown by the students. This same occurrence happened last may, however the police have gotten here early in preparation. In what seems to be an annual finals week occurrence (the last day of reading days, throw a party in the library), the students have organized another “rager” in the library, which have prompted staff to lock the library doors as well as lock the people in the 24 hour room. Updates will be posted as stuff happens, however the party is set to kick off in 15 minutes, I however was lucky enough to get in here right before the locked the main doors. Read more
Advanced Garage Door Controls Part 2
So this is part 2 for my advanced garage door controls. In this part I am making it so that the garage door can autoclose, there were some minor changes to the design when it comes to the features as well as the implementation. First off I had to change over to an arduino mega because there was not quite enough space on the arduinio uno to hold the program data (I was about 5kb off from fitting). As a reminder here are the features that it will include. Read more
Advanced Garage Door Controls
As part of my ELE 206 class at the University of Rhode Island I am required to do a final project, so I decided to expand the control I have over my older garage door so that it has similar functionality to the Craftsman AssureLink garage door. Below is a list of the main functionality I am adding using the Arduino.
- DONE: A status indicator inside the house to indicate if the garage door is open or closed.
- The ability to remotely check if the garage door is open or closed, see if the safety laser beam is blocked, and remotely open or close it.
- The ability to make the garage door automatically close after being open for so long.
- The ability to have the garage door automatically close if the garage gets too cold.
This may seem like a very hard task, however most of this is quite straightforward, and over a series of posts I will be walking you through the development process (which is not yet complete). The first part I chose to tackle was being able to detect if the garage door is open, and indicate that in the house. See how after the jump
The law of the land
This week has been an interesting week in the world of technology, and the law. As many of you may know, Sergey Aleynikov appealed the decision that his stealing code from Goldman Sac’s violated the National Stolen Property Act, and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. However there was one other case that was decided this week. See what happened
PAX East
Well as many of you know this past weekend was PAX East, which is the biggest gaming convention on the east coast of the US. I personally had a great time, although speaking of time, I had a hard time keeping track of it, missing pretty much all of the panels that I planned on attending, but even so I still had fun just walking around the exhibition floor, checking out all these awesome games, and awesome costumes by people. Unfortunately it was so crowded I wasn’t able to get really any video, but I did get some pictures which I will share here. I also was unable to attend day 3 because my cell phones battery died while on the charger so I didn’t wake up in time, but heres to a great pax, and to another one only about a year away. Images after the break
PAX East here we come
Well it’s almost that time of year again, pax east is imminent, being this weekend, and I will be there all 3 days providing coverage. I personally can’t wait for it to begin, and will be posting some videos from the events. For anyone who would like to go but still haven’t gotten their passes, go to the pax site, there are only passes for Sunday left, but it’s sure to be a blast.
ClearInv 2.0
Well the day has finally come for ClearInv to grow up and become a 2.0, I decided that the 1.9.7 update had so much in it that it was worth a major version increase. Amongst the bug fixes and compatibility adjustments there are 2 new major features, there is now a continuous preview mode, which as the name implies will continuously update your inventory with the players inventory. In order to do this you simply do “/preview -c <name>” the -c flag will make it continuous. I have also added a new clear mode which required the LWC (lightweight chest protection) plugin to be installed, basically you can clear a players inventory to a chest which is locked under your name. This was requested by quickclay on bukkitdev. Both of these commands required the permission node clear.other, however I will likely be reworking the permission system soon to separate the preview commands. For a full change log, or to download the latest version click here.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately
I’m sorry about the lack of posts lately, I have been pretty sick with a stomach bug which has been slowing me down. However soon I will be posting the first part to my final project for my ELE 206 project, which will be a multipart series about using the arduino for home automation (specifically in my case involving the garage).
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