Author Archives: Greg
Parsing data from twitter search.twitter.com/search.json?query=
Followers of this blog will know that I have been playing with twitter and an arduino. I would like to document my method of parsing twitter for data. PHP code follows, but any language that can parse json data will … Continue reading
g15daemon restart on “(g15daemon) did not claim interface 0 before use”
#!/bin/bash g15daemon automatic restart on replugged keyboard Written by Gregory Fenton, http://labby.co.uk let count=0 match=”(g15daemon) did not claim interface ” tail /var/log/syslog -fn 10 | while read line; do if [[ $line == *"$match"* ]]; then let count=$count+1 echo $count … Continue reading
My personal review of WebRoot SecureAnywhere Mobile
As followers of my blog will know in one of my posts a comment was made from the Vice President of a company. Me being full of cheek I asked him if I could have a copy of his software … Continue reading
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2011-copyright-final.pdf Government response to consultation on copyright exceptions and clarifying copyright law There are a lot of very interesting parts, notably the confirmation that home users can legally transcode between their own devices for their own private use without fear … Continue reading
bash split string every n characters
Today I needed to split a string in bash every 5 characters. Here is how I did it: a=”AdmitAfritAmbitAuditAwaitBefitBinitBruitCubitDavitDebitDemitDigitDixitDroitFixitFruitHabitKraitLegitLicitLimitMeritOrbitPetitPewitPipitPlaitPositQubitQuoitRecitRefitRelitRemitResitSpaitSplitSpritTacitTraitUnfitUnlitUnwitUplitVisitVomitZizit” count=5 # change 5 to however many characters you wish to break on b=”$a” while [ "$b" != "" ]; do … Continue reading
E-cigarette machines – health hazard in the making? A future TV ad for claiming compensation?
Edit: Electronic and herbal cigarettes will also have to carry health warnings under the European-wide shake-up designed to make smoking less attractive to young people. Guess I was right after all. Am I the only person in the world who … Continue reading
@Arduino based twitter-enabled candy machine – all working and monitoring twitter
I got my twitter monitoring candy machine working today! If you wish to give me a candy simply send a tweet with the hashtag #candy4greg and I (or my children!) get a healthy nutritious snack. Chewing gum, skittles and tic … Continue reading
candy
On my way to buy candy for my twitter powered candy machine @Arduino @codebender.cc @maplintweet Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 Gregory FentonAll Rights ReservedOriginal content here is published under these license terms: X License Type:CommercialLicense Summary:You may read the original content in the context in which it is … Continue reading
@Arduino based twitter-enabled candy machine – almost finished, it works!
I have made a very basic test of my circuit (not much more than soldering 2 wires to the motor where the wires meet the resistors) and it works great :) I couldn’t find a tip120 so I opted instead … Continue reading
@Arduino based twitter-enabled candy machine – teardown images and preliminary ideas
This post contains all the images of the candy machine before I started hacking it. The wiring is as follows: red: + black: – white: to capacitive sensor red and black are used again from the PCB to the motor … Continue reading
