On Sunday night, I placed an order on the oomlout.co.uk site for a few bits I needed for a small project I’ve been working on. I received the parcel on Tuesday morning and was very pleased with the fast delivery. When I opened it, I was really impressed with everything. First of all, all the […]
Author: arkadian
In the following basic example, I’m using Processing to parse a 2GB textfile. The textfile I’m using (content.rdf.u8) is from the DMOZ.org project. You can download the compressed file here. As mentioned earlier, the size of the textfile, content.rdf.u8, is approx 2GB. For a sample of the contents and structure of the file, follow this […]
Brian Evans has published a book on Arduino on Lulu.com, which is available either as a free pdf download or a real paperback for £3.72 + postage. Arduino Programming Notebook – Direct link This is book (or “notebook” as Brian calls it, as it is only 36 pages long) is a very short introduction to […]
AWS (Amazon Web Services) has been around for a while, but I never thought I was the target audience for it, so I never really looked into that. Last weekend, I had the following problem to solve: I’m working on a model, that realistically needs approx 1,000 “normal” PCs in order to run within an […]
I’m currently working on a simulation model in Processing, which creates in every cycle, 350,000 lines of temporary data in chunks of 1,000 lines. I decided to save the temporary data in a MySQL table, as this allows me to easily add an extra query at the end that summarises everything and saves the final […]
Sparkun are selling the following simple clock on their site: Link This is a minimalistic clock that includes all the essential functions and is very similar to a product offered at Maplins in the UK that I have used before: Maplin link | My project which includes this module There are two differences between the […]