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Living with Penguins
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
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)
- 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 Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu Zotac Zbox as media server
Present software of choice
OS
ubuntu gnu/linux
Text Editors
The one true editor EMACS
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/