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, […]
Month: August 2009
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]