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Developing for Arduino on Eclipse

As a side-project I started to develop on the Arduino platform (more on the project-of-the-day later). First Steps Getting going on windows was easy: setting up Arduino 1.0.1, compiling and running the “blink” demo, changing the frequency etc … was straightforward. Then: i found grbl. Flashing the premade 0.8a firmware from grbl – instant success. [...]


Sony Vaio E-Series 15.5″ Laptop

Btw, my new machine is a EB2 with i5-450M 4GB RAM 320GB HD ATI HD5650 with 1GB 15.5″ FullHD screen From what i get after my install marathon: very nice! Lots of performance and features. Only the case is a bit plastiky. But not bad indeed for around EU800,-. Now i have to get a [...]


Flex Builder install under Windows 7 (64-bit)

After getting a new laptop and after upgrading to Windows7 (64-bit) i tried to migrate my current work-setup for eclipse and my workspaces to the new machine. Also upgraded to the newest eclipse version (3.6). Wasn’t really watching the install, but realized that the installer window went “black” after a while and the install went [...]


GeoFeeder now officially signed

With the new, official certificate from Chosen Security, i created a new version of GeoFeeder (with only an increased version number) with my new certificate. Then used ..\sdks\3.2.0\bin\adt -migrate -storetype pkcs12 -keystore self_signed_cert.p12 GeoFeeder_121.air GeoFeeder_121_certswitch.air to manually wrap it with the old, self-signed signature. This way an update can be verified by the installed version [...]


Realtime Traffic Messages

Update: the receiving and processing of TMC radio is currently disabled Update: constantly improving the decoder … I finally set up a small embedded linux computer (ZFx86 @ 100MHz, 32MB) with one of my mp5_redux PC104 add-on boards to receive and decode TMC (Traffic Message Channel)-messages out of RDS (Radio Data System). The system is [...]