The Great Internet Fire
I haven’t posted in a long time. So if you’ve been here before, then welcome back. The recent throttling of the Santa Clara fire department is making this a critical issue. I feel compelled to talk about this because it’s […]
GCC was here
GNU did that part on the end. Kudos to Google Books Ngram Viewer – graph link
IRduino
Its been a while since I posted on here, and to that note I should introduce my new project. First a prologue, recently it’s getting hard to use multiple remotes for my various devices. I would like a centralized media […]
Political shenanigans are so interesting
Compare these two websites that talk about legislation that would allow Missouri’s electric companies to add Infrastructure Replacement Surcharge (ISRS) to consumers electric bills. Here is a more independent take on the issue. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-01-28/mo-dot-bill-seeks-to-improve-energy-infrastructure Here is a pro-ISRS website put […]
Update to Arduino Random Library!!!
Recently I have been working on the new api for the Arduino Random library. The library now has methods that return different integer sizes from byte to long. I’m not sure if I’ll add long long though as the delay […]
Beware!! The Fraudsters are Lurking in the Shadows!!
As we all know there are fraudsters out in the world. These people try and quite often succeed at pilfering money from unsuspecting individuals. Yours truly just got a call from a fraudster claiming to negotiate with my credit card […]
Yay!!! New Arduino RNG
Here are the results of the new random number generator I built yesterday. The old random number generator was not putting out an unbiased stream of bits. I tried using debiasing algorithms with the old generator but it was not […]
Xbox 360 Remote Control with an Arduino
I recently made a neat little gadget with my Arduino Mega that controls my Xbox 360. It uses the remote control codes from the lirc project. I used an old keypad and an infrared led I found at a hamfest. […]
Arduino Hardware Random Number Generator
I have been dabbling in cryptography for a while now and recently I got into random number generators. I found out that crypto libraries use random number generators all the time. You would have to be able to keep the […]
Bad NGEN, Bad
A few months back decided to try out Visual Studio 2010 which uses version 4 of the .NET Framework. So I proceeded to install everything and after a few reboots everything was done. However my boot process was no longer […]