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I just had an email from the good people over at EVGA about the upcoming gaming event “Insomnia I45″. Looks great, I may consider applying for a press pass as they are looking for people willing to publicise it. Great … Continue reading →

I don’t know anything about it either, I saw it on an advert for BT. Maybe it has something to do with grass. Mmmm lamb. Soon be barbecue season once again.

I have been trying to reflash my corrupted PIC32 (specifically a pinguino32-usb-otg board) using MPlabX IDE and a Pickit 3. My connection was: PC to pickit 3 via USB pickit 3 to PIC32 via 6 pin header I tried to … Continue reading →

I have recently been playing around with some cool toys – arduino and pinguino32. Arduino: http://arduino.cc Pinguino: http://pinguino.cc The arduino is based around the Atmel micro controller AT328P or equivalent and can be programmed using a simple USB connection when … Continue reading →

Edit: My sincere and heartfelt thanks go out to http://pblog.ebaker.me.uk/2011/09/processing-usb-ports-devttyacm0.html for the original idea. I have just reinstalled linux and am in the middle of setting everything back up to play with my new Arduino Uno. For some reason best … Continue reading →

Thanks to the hard work of Ken Shirriff over at http://www.arcfn.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html I am having great fun playing with infra red remote control. I would like to document my experiences as well as what I have gleaned from it. Main notes: … Continue reading →

I bought a Garmin Etrex H for geocaching. Geocaching is the equivalent of finding buried treasure mapreading, using GPS coordinates instead of a map and directions. I have ubuntu linux on my main computer, the other computers in the house … Continue reading →

A little bird over at http://www.windows8update.com has announced that the Windows 8 release date is rumoured to be the 26th of February 2012. I am on linux but I suppose I could put one of my old laptops to good … Continue reading →

Mocality http://blog.mocality.co.ke are a company that have manually created a large database (a white pages) of Kenyan businesses to fill a gaping hole in the market. Google Kenya http://www.google.co.ke are google. Say no more. Google Kenya have allegedly been trawling … Continue reading →

Just received another email from the team at Project Honeypot: Gregory – Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here’s something to be happy about — today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously unknown … Continue reading →