Last Sunday, Matt came to visit. He brought his MAN TIN along, which is filled with micro controllers and breadboards and miscellaneous wires and a machine that goes “Ping”. We’ve not done any UAV work for a very long time, in fact the last time we did any was last… Continue reading
Abstract Recently, Valve released Half-Life 2 and it’s episodes for Linux. For me, this is more or less a dream come true, something I’ve been waiting and wanting and wishing for since I started using Linux in 2006. I’ve tried Wine, multiple times, and it’s always been a bit too… Continue reading
Here’s a little Arduino code I’ve cooked up for the purposes of providing a nice crank signal to the FPGA-based ECU, for the purposes of bench testing the output. It’s a simulation of a nicely cleaned up, digital signal generated by a 36-1 toothed crank wheel on your typical Ford… Continue reading
Today something very exciting happened. Half-Life 2 and its episodes are now available for Linux. This year has been great for Linux gaming, and I’m managing to move further and further away from Windows as my primary OS. My laptop dual boots Windows 8 and Xubuntu 13.04, and my desktop… Continue reading
Worthy of note, is that this is -not- the first effort I’ve made in this field. In short, the reason behind this project is that I have an MGB GT; after the second B-series engine gave up the ghost (they don’t really seem to like 20,000 motorway miles and 12,000… Continue reading
I recently decided to move install Xubuntu on my desktop, having gotten fed up of Arch Linux. Arch Linux will make it’s return, but I was having too much trouble with the AMD legacy drivers. When I’ve upgraded my graphics card (hint – for one that doesn’t have shit linux… Continue reading
So, I added new ram to my build today. I had to do a cmos reset to get the settings right, more fool me. What I wasn’t expecting was this, when I booted up: Yep. Origin relies on your system clock to tell you if the game is released or… Continue reading
Canny Edge Detection The first stage for me is going to edge detection. There are many edge detectors, but I’m going to use the Canny Edge Detector, because I’m vaguely familiar with it and it’s quite well regarded. Here’s the image I’m going to use for the initial development: Step… Continue reading
Despite a 14-day top end for delivery, the Hobbyking parcel arrived this morning. Only been unboxed so far- here are a few pics: The postcard is for scale. That’s a 12-inch diameter, 3 bladed prop. The prop fitting kit is very nicely machined and the spinner is a nice finishing… Continue reading
I’ve got that itch again. The one that sits at the back of my head going “you haven’t done any cool programming in ages, don’t you think you should?” It’s an urge to go and work on a personal coding project, where I can experiment with stuff I find interesting,… Continue reading