http://tristated.weatherlight.com Mobile design for the dilettante Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:01:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It should be no surprise that, thanks to the Auduino platform, I reach for an AVR microcontroller first...at least for any project where an ARM SoC isn't what I'm after.  Part of the success of both the AVR and the Arduino platform (which is based on the AVR) is the ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/09/avrsh-what-a-tool-i-mean-that-in-a-good-way/ A friend of mine recently gave me a link to this article at Wired about the revolution of "cheap and simple" products.  It's true that this is a rising trend in products across the board, and in some ways, it is itself a tiny revolution in the world of product ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/08/where-linux-falters-on-a-netbook/ To follow up on my prior post, I've now been using Jolicloud for a few weeks.  They have rolled out some system updates in that time, and it's been interesting to see what they have and have not done.  Much of their time spent focusing on system updates has been ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/08/a-few-weeks-of-jolicloud/ The people at Jolicloud have been kind enough to give me an invite to see the alpha release.  This is actually something that I've been anticipating for a while.  You might recall that I own an EeePC that I enjoy using as my ultra-mobile "grab and go" computer.  To me, ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/07/jolicloud-first-impressions/ I'm writing this in the hopes that it eases the pain of others.  You see, it took an annoying amount of web searching to find a satisfying resolution to all my woes.  Let me explain...no, there isn't enough time....let me sum up.  The controller, or possibly a motor, went bad ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/04/acer-recovery-cd-error-0xd0000017/ I am not entirely sure why I haven't posted here sooner.  I guess I felt it was best to get some time at the job under my belt before talking about it too much or I'd jinx it.  Either that or it's my short attention span.  Either way, while a ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/04/new-job-current-projects/ With all my tools and components packed away until I move and get a new job, some of my focus is changing over to playing around with low-level software on two pieces of hardware that are stable and that I'm likely to have with me always -- my laptop and ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/02/eee-linux-kernel-hacking/ I really should hold off on posting about my cool finds until I confirm that they're in working order.  In the case of that Palm iii that I found, I finally popped some batteries in and it doesn't appear to be very functional.  The backlight comes on but that's about ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/01/palm-iii-kinda-dead/ Recently, Motorola had a massive layoff and I was affected.  This isn't really a source of great worry for me and Amy, and we're relocating to the West Coast.  If you happen to need a computer science and digital design dilettante and you're living in the Bay Area, Portland, or ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/01/cleaning-out-the-closet/ Hooray!  I can now create, build, and run C and C++ projects through Eclipse on Windows.  Through my bug report to the Eclipse CDT team, it came out that CDT was locking indefinitely while interacting with gcc.  On my box, gcc is provided through Cygwin.  The problem, however, came up ... http://tristated.weatherlight.com/2009/01/eclipse-cdt-bug-resolved/