====== Living with Penguins ====== {{:dancing-penguin.gif|:dancing-penguin.gif}} Some technical computing things that are useful. Webpage coding: http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp ==== dob hobby Projects ==== == 09 Jun 2017 == Electrochemical cell - plating, hydrolsysis of water (other materials?) & Electrophoretic deposition [[GetQuote]] Project Ideas - Dreammachine - Soundcard Oscilloscope - Arduino Oscilloscop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ky_N5-Fu6M LCD screen from Nokia 5210 is apparently a LPH7779 which can work with [[http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=79066.0|Arduino]] Arduino Uno (R1 Clone) can be bought on Amazon for ~12€. \\ To build your own Arduino you need : ((http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-Your-Own-Arduino/))\\ - Breadboard 440pin 1,41€ Amazon (soldered version - 1,14€ Conrad) - 22 AWG Wire (various colors) - 7805 Voltage Regulator 0,5€ Amazon - 2 LEDs 2 x 0,10 = 0,2€ - 2 220 Ohm Resistors 2 x 0,10 = 0,2€ ? - 1 10k Ohm Resistor - 2 10µF Capacitors - 16 MHz Clock Crystal 0,33€ - Conrad - 2 22pF Capacitors - Small Momentary Tact Switch - 1 Row Male Header pins - TTL-232R-3V3 USB-Serial Converter Cable ~3€ Amazon - ATmega323 microcontoller ~4€ Amazon Latest project looking at [[Beam Robotics]] **25.10.2014**: Weather from dob garden can now be viewed real-time at : [[http://wikidobia.info/weather/]] [[calulate:start]] [[Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu]] [[Zotac Zbox]] as media server [[http://dob.homelinux.com/~dobrien/encryption/| Public Keys for Encryption]] ==== Present software of choice ==== == OS == [[http://www.ubuntu.com|ubuntu]] gnu/linux == Text Editors == The one true editor [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html|EMACS]] 8-O\\ List of addons for emacs, the [[http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WikifiedEmacsLispList|emacs lisp list]] == Office == [[https://www.libreoffice.org/|libre office]] \\ email/calendar: google\\ [[http://www.skype.com/|Skype]]\\ == Multimedia == Music player / podcast catcher : [[http://www.subsonic.org|subsonic]] \\ Movie player/encoder : [[http://www.mplayerhq.hu/|Mplayer]] \\ Editing images : [[http://www.gimp.org|gimp]] \\ Editing sound : [[http://audacity.sourceforge.net/|Audacity]]\\ Editing video : [[http://www.kinodv.org/|Kino]]\\ Ripping/encoding DVD : [[http://untrepid.com/acidrip/|Acidrip]]\\ Ripping/encoding CD : [[http://nostatic.org/grip/|Grip]]\\ == Internet == [[http://www.subsonic.org|Sage]]\\ For matlab : [[http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/|Octave]]\\ Open Source web templates: http://www.oswd.org/ == Internet == [[doku>wiki:dokuwiki|{{wiki:dokuwiki-128.png?70 }}]] [[wiki:wikidobia]]\\ [[http://www.google.com/analytics| Google Analytics]] [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto| gpg Encyption]]