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Broadcasting again
It’s been years; many years since I last posted an update. Life, work, procrastination, trying to be perfect; the reasons are never-ending. But …
The cost of cheap components
I really wanted to avoid writing again about radio waves and electromagnetic interference because it is not one of my strong points; alas one cannot …
within specifications —as one blog wasn’t enough
This post is more of a status update. I recently started a new, technical blog. The name is within specifications and you may check it out at …
Fast PWM and Electromagnetic Interference
Yesterday came to my attention a project that turns the Raspberry Pi into a FM transmitter. It is totally awesome and you should check it out. While …
Fast PWM on ATmega328, up to 8MHz
A couple of days earlier, a friend asked me how he could get fast PWM from an Atmel ATmega328 microcontroller —fast as in over 62.5KHz. Surprisingly I …
Android, Open Source and a self-induced hackathon
tl;dr Android as a whole -from Google’s code repository to cheap Chinese tablets- is open source to a certain extent but, although this acts as a …
Gitlab 4.0 on a Gentoo server, ~amd64, hardened w/ Apache.
The article about Gitlab on Ubuntu gets some views every day, so I guess it is an interesting subject -and it should be. GitLab is a great project. It …
GitLab on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with Apache
Recently I saw the light, or something very bright at least, and decided it is time to use a central git repository to store my personal projects …
Yet Another Backup Script: mrbStudio
Some years ago I decided that I needed backups. Our systems are more fragile than we tend to think; hardware break downs, hard disks failures, laptop …
adversities: dog day
Yesterday afternoon I took my camera with my favorite -and only prime- lens, the EF 50mm f/1.8, to exploit the rare light of the upcoming storm. The …