This post is about a stop-motion animation clip I made, using my new remote shutter gadget for my digital camera. Basically, I took about 360 shots within about an hour using my Fuji FinePix S9600 on a tripod, my newly acquired remote shutter control and a few coins. All the shots were taken at 9 […]
Author: arkadian
This is a project I have been working on for the past 2-3 weeks. I wanted to create a night light which had to be very simple to use and with no parts that can be consumed by babies! 🙂 I used 20 RGB LEDs (which I got from www.oomlout.co.uk), an old Eriksson phone charger […]
This is a tiny little script that can be extremely useful. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 loop { ; /capture=0 takes a screenshot of the whole desktop ; /capture=1 takes a screenshot of the active window ; /capture=2 takes a screenshot of the client area of the active window Run, […]
This is more of a list of notes on custom PCB design rather than a proper post… There is a pretty good tutorial on how to use Eagle on SparkFun.com. Eagle (the freeware version) can be downloaded for free here. There is also a very useful library with most of the components available on Sparkfun.com […]
This weekend I played with the Arduino/LCD Smartie combination and I was impressed both by the results and by the simplicity of the whole project. If you have the right LCD shield and you don’t have to do any soldering, you can be up and running in 10-15 minutes. For those who are not familiar […]
I spent about an hour, trying to figure out how to use the simpleDateFormat java library in Processing… It seemed so straight forward, yet I couldn’t get it to work… Well, it seems that the only thing I had to add is a try/catch. So, this example works: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 […]