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Interesting upcoming courses on Coursera
The online “university” coursera.org organizes its courses with limited time frame, to give the students a sense of urgency to complete the studies. These courses, which are relevant to the content of my blog, are about to start: VLSI CAD: Logic to Layout; start date: 2013-03-04 Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and Networked Software; start date: 2013-03-04 Information Security […]
Makeblock: the body of your open hardware projects.
December 23, 2012
I have always been the LEGO kid. I especially liked the space sets, but I understood quite soon that the Technic series was the best for me. A couple of times in my life, when I wanted solutions to small physical problems such as “how can I fit this webcam to the top of monitor?”, […]
A thesis on Arduino
April 18, 2011
I’m reading an interesting university thesis on Arduino, from Fabio Varesano’s blog, that I follow: My MoS Thesis: Using Arduino for Tangible Human Computer Interaction | Varesano.net. This thesis is a useful resource especially for people with a Computer Science background; it can generate many project ideas and arm any hobbyist with the tools to […]
Salvaging an old stationary bike RPM sensor
March 20, 2011
I had to dispose of an old stationary bike that little by little fell apart. Before throwing it away I wanted to see if I could salvage something from its simple electronics. The bike has a sensor that somehow detects the rotation of the crankset and then is used to display the RPM on a […]
Getting started with Arduino Uno on Ubuntu
January 31, 2011
I really wanted to try Arduino; Arduino narrates a story where the good guys are winning. Saturday I arranged to buy one, the Arduino Uno, and the first thing that came into my mind was “Wow, it’s really smaller than I thought possible!”. I went home and started unboxing it: the packages comes with a […]
Taking a look at Arduino schematics
January 23, 2011
Out of curiosity I wanted to check some Arduino board schematics. The Arduino Uno is one of the newest boards and is also quite simple; its open source schematics can be downloaded from here(zip file). There are two files: a board layout file and a schematics file. They can be opened with the free (but […]
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