The Tale of the Marquis de Inateck (4-Port USB 3.0 card)
Update: The replacement card has also disappeared from the PCI bus, both in Windows and when booted into Linux. So much for Inateck / Fresco Logic. I’m extremely disappointed. In […]
Update: The replacement card has also disappeared from the PCI bus, both in Windows and when booted into Linux. So much for Inateck / Fresco Logic. I’m extremely disappointed. In […]
For my next trick, I’ll be learning the intricacies of running a FlipDot (aka flip-disc) display made by ANNAX: The image above is from the FlipDotBlog site that the ebay […]
My day job has been keeping me busy, and I haven’t had a lot of spare time to work on projects or to even read (I’ve got quite the backlog […]
From what I’ve gathered (e.g., from the forums as well as the complete lack of information since May) it seems the Arduino STAR Otto is no more.
“An ESP8266? That’s easy! Feel free to follow along with my simple step by step instructions. I make codeloading FUN!!” (with apologies to Strong Bad) Beware: There be dragons here! While […]
[Updates at the end of this article] At today’s Bay Area Maker Faire I was hopeful that I’d hear some news on the Arduino Star OTTO… I walked away with not […]
I got a WDF_VIOLATION BSOD (0x0000010D) in Windows 7 (x64) when I connected a dev board via USB serial today. It was an alarming error I’ve never seen before… … […]
I’ve added a gist with the details of how to build Python (3.4, 3.5, and even 2.7) on a Raspberry Pi 2 (it may also work on a regular old Pi […]
I’ve added a gist with the details of how to build Go 1.5.x+ on a Raspberry Pi 2 (it may work on a regular old Pi but I haven’t tested that). […]
As I learn about the Go programming language I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned as an occasional series. My current Go exploration is prime number identification and the […]
I am a proponent of not rebuilding binaries when possible (thanks to Gohlke’s Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages site and the Python wheels), but there are many times I need to rebuild […]
I was fiddling with Python and iPython today on Windows (64-bit installs) and tried the help(‘modules’) command in Idle. Surprisingly, it threw an infinite raft of errors from pyreadline, all of […]
I recently purchased the Writing Idiomatic Python bundle by Jeff Knupp (at http://www.jeffknupp.com/writing-idiomatic-python-ebook/). As I continue to refresh and reinforce my Python knowledge I figured it’d be handy, and indeed it turned […]
The other day I found myself wondering how to perform bitwise rotations in Python, particular bit rotations (circular shifts). There’s lots of complex ways to do it – bitstring, bitarray, and […]