All work on ModbusDroid, the modbus scanner/polling client app I wrote for android, will now take place using the
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After working on another app for a start-up and some half-written project ideas, I decided to return to my original app ModbusDroid and finally clean up some stuff that was obnoxious about my first go at it. So here you have it, I added a landscape layout that moves the Modbus controls to the left [...]
As some of you know, my friend Alec Wojciechowski and I have been busting our humps for the last couple of months (while both of us are attending classes BTW – Alec for his masters, me for VLI) to turn out a prototype of an android app for a startup called Whooz Near. The premise [...]
Current Mood: accomplishedAfter much furious learning and coding between VLI semesters, I have finally churned out my first ever Android app. Modbus-Droid Modbus-Droid is a Modbus TCP client / scanner, that is designed to scan a contiguous block of modbus registers at a regular interval. Using the software: All you do to get this going, [...]
On Friday my MythTV server (my DVR software running on my server) had major audio and video artifacts and skipping during Dollhouse. This isn’t the first time this has happened and is particularly annoying since the TV upstairs rarely, if ever, has issues with Fox. Well, this was the last straw for me. ( WTF is [...]
You may have heard some of these questions (some from me) or thought of them yourself: Why does only the iPhone have visual voicemail? If I can make calls for free using skype from one computer to another why can’t my phone automatically know if I’m calling a computer and switch to that when wifi [...]
This is a quick test post to verify that my LJ sync’ing tool works when I generate my wordpress post from my iphone. If this works it will be pretty sweet, and I’ll be contributing back to an open source project. Double-win for me. \n
Lauren and I have been trying to do better at recycling (unfortunately Minneapolis makes you sort it, so I forget a lot) and we have probably cut our actual trash in half or better in the last 6 months. Also, I’ve been doing a lot of work over the last year for the solar market [...]
To most people computers are about accomplishing a task. Getting from A to B as simply as they can, so to speak. Almost no one reading this really cares much about what file format you are saving that word document in as long as the person you are sending it to can read it. Likewise, [...]
This is a CD filled with some high quality free software. http://softwarefor.org/ I can speak for the windows one in saying I use almost half of those programs on a daily basis, and have about 2/3 of them installed on all of my windows machines, and most of the cross-platform ones I have installed on [...]
Current Mood: nerdyNow that MythTV works (but alas, it still doesn’t output to my TV, and the HDTV signal is choppy as hell on the P3 1GHz machine), I am thinking beyond it to move my home to the next level. For a while now I’ve talked about home automation, integrated with the computer network, [...]
Current Mood: nerdyOver at Tom’s Guide Daily they are doing an article on switching to Ubuntu. Link to article While this is nothing new these days, I was particularly enjoying it even in the first page because of this paragraph. Have you ever been some place you really didn’t want to be? I mean, have [...]
New Antenna is completely built, and working. I had to buy nothing, I had everything in the house that I needed to complete the design from the lumen labs forums that I linked to earlier. The Pentium 3, 1GHz even with the GeForce 6200 isn’t exactly down with decoding the HDTV stream and displaying it [...]
