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Its been hard finding the time to work on my projects. I’m starting to suspect I won’t finish until summer passes and my A/C is useless. I did a quick and inexhaustive research on connecting a microcontroller to an Ethernet network. This post covers some of the options I found and the one i chose. (more…)

Its not really ready for mainstream consumption, but my streaming NZB client works. This post covers some of the issues I found while creating it and some of the reasons you shouldn’t try to use it. (more…)

With the DNS exploit in the wild and Time Warners’s dns apparently unpatched here in NYC, I decided to switch to opendns. Its a clever service adding some nice features on top of DNS: Typo Correction, Content Filtering, Shortcuts, and Statistics. Give it a try. Here’s how I set it up on OpenWrt Kamikaze. Open DNS’s own website has instructions for setting up other more typical configurations. (more…)

It works! I finally had success getting my IR transmitter to work. I update my code so that the signal transmission could be triggered by an external interrupt. Once that was done I could analyze side-by-side waveforms. I manually tweaked my code until it was in sync with the remote control, and success! This post documents the communication protocol for my LG 8008R. The next step is to hook-up some hardware to the internet. (more…)

In the first part of this post, I created a version of rar I could use to help stream content from usenet. I’ve been using the program, and it works well. As soon as hellanzb finishes downloading the first file I start un-rar’ing. I can point VLC at the partial file and it will play as long as my bandwidth keeps pace. I still have to drop to a command line for a bit of manual work before the file starts to play, but I’m working on a python program to fix this. (more…)

No luck. I’m trying to prototype an IR transmitter using an AVR micro-controller. My first try was a awful example of wave form generation; a piece of C code without a clock driven output. Instead of using a clock/timer which would have given me interrupts at exact intervals, I decided to do busy-for-loop-spinning delays to shape the signal. The result was a nasty error filled waveform. (more…)