How-To – Michael Doornbos

These Beautiful Electronics Pinout Diagrams Make DIYing a Little Easier

When you’re first getting started learning how to make your own electronics with the likes of Arduino, the process, pins, and everything else is a little confusing. Arduino forum member Romano d’Ezzelino wanted to make things a little easier, so they designed a simple pinout sheet to track where all the power goes. via TheseContinue reading “These Beautiful Electronics Pinout Diagrams Make DIYing a Little Easier”

Make the Perfect Cup of Tea with These Steeping Times and Temperatures

Nice little handy chart: Make the Perfect Cup of Tea with These Steeping Times and Temperatures.

This is great: Sparkfun on Demystifying Serial Communication

I love it when someone takes the time to teach a broad audience something that most people who work on computer systems should now but probably don’t understand very well. Thanks SparkFun!

John Cleese on Creativity

Textmate Rails Routes Bundle

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles cd ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles git clone git://github.com/szeryf/rails-routes.tmbundle.git osascript -e ‘tell app “TextMate” to reload bundles’

Installing Google Go on Ubuntu 9.10 x86

This is for x86 processors. You need to change the 386 to amd64 if that’s your chip architecture. First create a bin directory in your home directory if you don’t have one already: mkdir $HOME/bin Then edit your .bashrc file and add: export GOROOT=$HOME/go export GOOS=linux export GOARCH=386 export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin Then reread your bashrc file:Continue reading “Installing Google Go on Ubuntu 9.10 x86”

Infrared Sensor Data for Hal

I’m using an infrared range sensor for the real life Hal. The Sharp GP2Y0A02YK0F – Infrared Proximity Sensor Long Range – While testing his motions, I was noticing some pretty erratic behavior, so I decided to collect some data on the sensor values on a fixed object, while Hal was not moving. This is aContinue reading “Infrared Sensor Data for Hal”

I should know better than to leave home without paper and a pencil

I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately. I gave myself a deadline of today to finish an article I’ve been thinking of for a week and spent the whole day having writers block. As soon as I walked out the door to pick up our Chinese takeout for the evening, 100 ideas came swarmingContinue reading “I should know better than to leave home without paper and a pencil”

Google Reader for the Wii

Google has quietly released Reader for the Wii. Fire up your Wii and go here: http://www.google.com/reader/wii

How to not bork up your startup

So you’ve done it. You quit your job and are working 18 hour days on a new venture. It’s great, you’re doing what you want, you’re scared and excited. It’s great. You add some people to help. They are a virtual team because the best people out there don’t have to move to be partContinue reading “How to not bork up your startup”