Last year, I spent some time rewriting internals of how groups are handled in our CAD software. Before that, groups were just to help with the selection of elements that belong together. The grouping was only one level deep, and the elements were organized flat on the document. All the calling functions had to uptate… Continue reading Propagate deletion of C++ Objects
RepRap Mendel Part1
My wive wanted to give me the first kit for a RepRap Mendel for Christmas. She was really sorry that the kit didn’t make it under the tree, as it was sold out. I was excited about the Project for more than a Year, but it was too expensive to just give it a go.… Continue reading RepRap Mendel Part1
Why I gave up on voip (for now)
Voip used to be a big hype, but nowdays you don’t hear a lot about it. I thought that was because it gained wide adoption. But maybe not. At least in the company I work, we went back to a regular telephony system after having constant trouble with the voip installation. From time to time,… Continue reading Why I gave up on voip (for now)
openwireless.ch in Brunnen
I heard of mesh networks before, be it from the OneLaptopPerChild or the German Freifunker community. But the recent episode of ChaosRadio about the MeshPotato got me interested enough to give it a try. The meshing community here in Switzerland is organized at openwireless.ch. Sure, I could buy a compatible router and install the provided… Continue reading openwireless.ch in Brunnen
v2.0 released (it’s a boy)
Last saturday February12th, five minutes before the deadline (midnight) we received our second son Noah Lauro. Everything went well, and meanwhile the whole family is home again.
Convert news web page into rss feed
At the company I work (BORM), we have an internal web page with the company news. We’re required to log in and check every once in a while. Now to get notified automatically, wehen some news are to be discovered, I hacked together a PHP script that logs in, downloads and parses the news. It… Continue reading Convert news web page into rss feed
Arduino code to interface the MS5607B Intersema barometric pressure sensor through i2c
It was not quite as easy as I anticipated to interface the MS5607B sensors that I had sitting around for quite some time now. Sure, wiring them up is a lot easier. Although I still don’t like soldering SMD. In the end, it worked out, and the code can be downloaded with the links below.… Continue reading Arduino code to interface the MS5607B Intersema barometric pressure sensor through i2c
Google Body Browser
I knew google can read my mind. For some time now I was looking for something like GoogleEarth for human anatomy. I even thought about asking Google to make something like that. Now I learned they did just that. They even did it as a showcase for WebGL which is part of the upcoming HTML5… Continue reading Google Body Browser
My first Android App
Yesterday, my first Android App hit the Market. Just search for flightpred and you should find it. It should run on any device running Android 1.5 and above. The App doesn’t do a lot so far. Essentially, it downloads an xml file from the flightpred server and displays the predictions for how many kilometers it… Continue reading My first Android App
A new flying site “Gebidum”
These days I don’t often discover new flying sites, especially not if they’re so close. Last year when searching for new sites in the Wallis I found something about Giw on the internet. That’s above Visperterminen. The chairlift was closed already, so I went somewhere else. When thinking about where to go this weekend, that… Continue reading A new flying site “Gebidum”