I was thinking about how normal people grow up of student-like stench at their homes and start to live in sterile places. I started to feel slightly ashamed of my place and then I thought – no! This is how I like it, this is how I’m effective, this is what I want! This is… Continue reading My desk – great place to work
Month: January 2013
Raspberry Pi, servo motor, gpio, i2c and soldering weekend
This weekend I decided to work on my soldering skills and finally assemble the PWM driver PCA9685 I bought from Adafruit couple weeks back. Not all solder points looks perfect, but I’ve manage not to burn the PCB which I consider a major success. I thank all the guys how put soldering tutorials on the… Continue reading Raspberry Pi, servo motor, gpio, i2c and soldering weekend
MGPlayer on Raspberry PI (javafx!)
I’ve just “successfully” run my MG Podcast Player on Raspberry Pi using just released JDK8 for ARM Preview. Performance isn’t great compared to desktop system and it doesn’t actually play mp3 files (Media are not supported yet), but having ability to run a java 8 application on $35 is amazing by itself! If you want… Continue reading MGPlayer on Raspberry PI (javafx!)
Good Design principles (and how to run a county as well)
I’ve just found a gov.uk site describing how to design stuff. It’s ten simple points that gets often forgotten. Hearing this from government agency makes me happy I’m going to pay my taxes in UK soon. This is the way to think about your users, customers or citizens!