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Living with Penguins

: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 Arduino

Arduino Uno (R1 Clone) can be bought on Amazon for ~12€.

To build your own Arduino you need : 1)

  1. Breadboard 440pin 1,41€ Amazon (soldered version - 1,14€ Conrad)
  2. 22 AWG Wire (various colors)
  3. 7805 Voltage Regulator 0,5€ Amazon
  4. 2 LEDs 2 x 0,10 = 0,2€
  5. 2 220 Ohm Resistors 2 x 0,10 = 0,2€ ?
  6. 1 10k Ohm Resistor
  7. 2 10µF Capacitors
  8. 16 MHz Clock Crystal 0,33€ - Conrad
  9. 2 22pF Capacitors
  10. Small Momentary Tact Switch
  11. 1 Row Male Header pins
  12. TTL-232R-3V3 USB-Serial Converter Cable ~3€ Amazon
  13. 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 Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu Zotac Zbox as media server

Public Keys for Encryption

Present software of choice

OS

ubuntu gnu/linux

Text Editors

The one true editor EMACS 8-O
List of addons for emacs, the emacs lisp list

Office

libre office
email/calendar: google
Skype

Multimedia

Music player / podcast catcher : subsonic
Movie player/encoder : Mplayer
Editing images : gimp
Editing sound : Audacity
Editing video : Kino
Ripping/encoding DVD : Acidrip
Ripping/encoding CD : Grip

Internet

Sage
For matlab : Octave
Open Source web templates: http://www.oswd.org/

Internet

wikidobia
Google Analytics

gpg Encyption