It's been a big week for Docker, a relatively new linux container platform. It's only Tuesday and they have announced a production ready release, have held their first conference and revamped their image index into the Docker Hub. Docker has also managed to garner support from Red Hat, Open Stack …
more ...I've been doing some work on communication between our company's learning management system and salesforce so that we can tie a client's training into their customer and partner management systems. I had done a little work with salesforce in the past, mostly on accessing data via their REST API, but …
more ...I was recently asked on facebook:
more ...Professor, I have a question about photons. Photons are packets of energy that have no mass, correct? Also sunlight has been calculated to have mass and Einstein's theory of general relativity relates energy and mass. How is then possible that photons have energy and …
I just had to reblog this post from Shock and Awwww… there’s Total Control Lighting sewn into the black skirt one of the women is wearing on the front page of the article.
more ...Over the last few years LEDs are becoming much more common at Burning Man. This is generally a good thing, as it means we are likely to (hopefully) see fewer glow sticks left lying around the desert. Unfortunately, most of the LEDs on the playa tend to be of …
more ...I have received many emails from people who are using Total Control Lighting, and my Arduino library in particular, to do neat things. Benny and I thought it would be nice to develop a community for people to share ideas, help, and source code so I’ve decided to try …
more ...I have completed a Total Control Lighting C library for embedded linux single-board computers, such as the BeagleBone, BeagleBoard-xM, and the Raspberry Pi, which support Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus. The library is available to download from bitbucket.org. There are a few sample programs and some documentation included with …
more ...In mid-July I made the decision to leave the University. The 2011-2012 year was a very tough one. I started the year with tenure and began working as Clerk of the Academic Senate. Even though budget conditions continued to be bad on campus I thought that I could help to …
more ...I tested the total control lighting library with the chipKIT Uno32 Arduino compatible PIC based microcontroller. Their IDE is a bit behind the Arduino version, so I would recommend using the 1.0 version of the library: arduino-TCL-1.0.zip. One difference in installation is that the library has to …
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