The hardest debug situation of my life just ended. Celebrate! I was trying to make a USB audio adapter to work on an embedded device running OpenWRT, but Linux wasn’t recognizing the USB device. The device turned on, but wasn’t getting mapped to /dev. So I think, ok, I probably forgot the modules. I Installed the modules. Still no luck. Maybe I chose the wrong modules? I started trying different permutations of modules (with each try taking half an hour […]
A few days ago I found that there is no way to print on Sublime Text 2. I was a little disappointed with this discovery, printing is such a basic feature that even Notepad offers. Why doesn’t Sublime Text 2 include it? Ok, besides saving trees, I hate to print stuff on paper myself, but sometimes you will be asked to print your code, either by a professor or someone else wanting to review your code. In the meanwhile I […]
The GLA I (Glassomium one) is still a work in progress, but it’s so exciting seeing it come alive! The mirror mounts and camera still need to be put in place, the back needs to be covered, the IR lights need to be installed, a power supply circuitry needs to be built, fans need to be added and a few other minor details need to be taken care of. During the summer I came up with the design, then through the ACM […]
Amazon’s Kindle 4 comes in two flavors, one that is ad supported ($79) and one that isn’t ($109, price difference of $30). If you have the ad supported one, at any point in time Amazon allows you to pay the difference of $30 and remove the ads. In this article I will explain not only how you can remove the ads at no cost, but also how you can replace them with your own screensaver images. Very cool stuff! This […]