Planet Planet Planet Mushrooms Mushrooms!
Use a Atmel ATTINY26 as a serial port based fan controller for a PC. Tracy’s machine is very noisy but has built in sensors for the CPU and case temperature. Use a PC app to do closed loop control on the temperature.
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Woo. All done. Reasonable length, very linear, and a bit…easy. Solution to the big bad: empty 200 blaster rounds for stage 1. Re-stock using the PDA. Empty 200 rounds for stage 2.
For measuring the vertical temperature gradient cheaply at different stations across about a heactare of land. A heactare is 10000 m^2 or about 100×100 metres. You could use a set of 1-wire temperature sensors in a local cluster.
Squishy, the Linux box, runs MythTV. It’s a bit tricky to turn off so it would be nice to have it turn off on pressing the power button. Turns out Ubuntu has everything there by default provided by acpi, acpid, and acpi-support.
Very impressed so far. Purchased a Dick Smith XH8227 802.11g USB network adapter as they were on closeout for a reasonable price. There are efforts to get a driver going natively using the prism54.
My web host took down my account due to a WordPress administration script taking up all of the CPU. For some reason four copies of the wp-admin/categories.php script were spinning pushing the load average above 20.
Fuse is a quite complete Spectrum emulator with a very good Z80 core already used in the EightyOne Windows only ZX81 emulator. The core has many hooks in it for the various Spectrum functions that go on and is not as clean to separate out as I hoped – I’ll have to do a simple fork of it, clean out the Fuse parts and then put in the ZX81 parts.
I’m quite impressed with xplanet ( http://xplanet.sf.net/). You can give it a text file containing lat, long, and markers and generate a map of the world with people’s locations on it.