July 1, 2009
Hoping to find a solution to FTDI USB serial drivers freezing when I work on developing applications — not sure if it’s just when there’s a lot of data that’s being sent to the machine when applications aren’t reading the data fast enough or what (that seems to be the case that this happens)… but I’ve had to reboot my mac at least 6 times today and it’s getting really old.
I ran into this problem starting about 2 years ago, then stopped doing as much serial development… but now it’s back and I’m really getting annoyed.
And yes, I just verified that I’m running the newest drivers.
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June 29, 2009
Just thought i’d put out a quick note for anyone running Fusion (and I expect other VMWare products)… If you find that over time your system has become sluggish and is really painful to work with, make sure you don’t have any machine snapshots for that VM.
I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising, but in my experience with a machine of which I’d made a snapshot, over a year of moderate use the machine had become incredibly sluggish; on deleting the snapshot (which took quite a while to complete) the vm is back up to being plenty fast for my needs.
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June 28, 2009
I’m trying to get my documentation up a couple of notches, and in the process picked up an Eye-Fi. My plan is to keep my camera on a mount (gooseneck screwed to a board for support) on my workbench, and set it up to upload any pictures I take to an easy-to-access folder (with resized versions of the photo for different uses) for quick grabbing. This also makes it easy to keep them in backups.
I wasn’t sure whether the Eye-Fi was smart enough to save things to a different host than I’d configured it on, though comments for Jeff Tchang’s standalone server seemed to indicate a host running a server should automatically be detected…
It turns out that when the Eye-Fi starts up, it ARPs for anything in the same network (actually not sure if it uses the netmask or just hits everything else in the same /24), then tries to connect to port 59278 on anything it finds… so it actually is automatically able to find a host to upload to, it’s just um… lacking a little elegance.
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May 12, 2009
For my thesis project I worked on building devices called Cuttlefish. They are little wireless, battery powered LED controllers and hopefully just the beginning of a much bigger project. I’ll update the page as I make progress on the deveopment.
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February 25, 2009
This is adding flocking behavior (plus some UI improvements) to the particles.
Code
Executable (OSX/Leopard)
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