Homemade tortillas are the best.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-flat-bread/
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New MS developer board.
Sharks Cove board with Intel Atom CPU targeted at Windows developers. One really thinks this is aimed at the Raspberry Pi/Arduino market. But at $300 dollars, who is really going to choose it. Microsoft has a tradition of not supporting speciality products for any period of time. Zune and etc etc etc. Even if it was worth it I would shy away from it. Ironically you can take a pico motherboard and dc-dc power supply and in effect have the same thing for a fraction of the cost. Now if you really want to get inane on this, I will take my old 486 laptop and add all kinds of breakout cables to do quite a bit. Parallel, serial, vga, and etc. The 486 laptop was free. Cables did have some cost to them, but no where near $300. If you know anything about electronics, a "1" is plus five volts and a "0" is near zero volts. That is true for the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, personal computers, and a zillion developer boards. Not all interfaces will be using digital, but you ge
Fake beer.
For those of us who do not drink.7up with just enough Rootbeer to tint the drink the right color.
Instructables stat grab.
Many people have created tutorials on www.instructables.com. To see how each instructable is doing can be a chore. Devised a bash script to help conquer that chore. Though data may not be the latest, it certainly shows viable trends. You can also import the data into a spreadsheet rather easily. First you will want to create a text file with the instructables you want to follow. One url to a line. http://www.instructables.com/id/Line-editor-template/ You may need to install a program or two such as elinks and zenity so things will work. Then you will want to create an executable of the file to collect the data. #================================ # # Instructables numbers catcher # #================================= # Assignments # -------------------------------- szAnswer=$(zenity --file-selection --title="Select a iurl file to read") datafile=$szAnswer outfile="inumdata" total=0 # the date tmon=$(date +"%b") tday=$(date +"%d&quo
Parallel data port control.
Parcon is a neat little program that when used with sudo or the like can control the data lines on the parallel port to turn on and off an led or other equipment using proper circuitry. (5 volts only otherwise) Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlCHGiG_CQM Parallel port. pin 2 - data line 1 D0 --led--resistor--- pin 18 pin 3 - data line 2 D1 " pin 4 - data line 3 D2 " pin 5 - data line 4 D3 " pin 6 - data line 5 D4 " pin 7 - data line 6 D5 " pin 8 - data line 7 D6 " pin 9 - data line 8 D7 " pin 18 - ground To compile: $ gcc parcon.c -o parcon To run (l is off and h is on.) $ sudo parcon 1l 2l 3h 5h 8l Turns off pins 1,2, and 8. Tuns on pins 3 and 5. parcon.c [code] #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/io.h> char *binprint( unsigned char x, char *buf ) { int i; for( i=0; i<8; i++ ) buf[7-i]=(x&(1<<i))?'1':'0'
Parallel data port control.
Parcon is a neat little program that when used with sudo or the like can control the data lines on the parallel port to turn on and off an led or other equipment using proper circuitry. (5 volts only otherwise) Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlCHGiG_CQM Parallel port. pin 2 - data line 1 D0 --led--resistor--- pin 18 pin 3 - data line 2 D1 " pin 4 - data line 3 D2 " pin 5 - data line 4 D3 " pin 6 - data line 5 D4 " pin 7 - data line 6 D5 " pin 8 - data line 7 D6 " pin 9 - data line 8 D7 " pin 18 - ground To compile: $ gcc parcon.c -o parcon To run (l is off and h is on.) $ sudo parcon 1l 2l 3h 5h 8l Turns off pins 1,2, and 8. Tuns on pins 3 and 5. parcon.c [code] #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/io.h> char *binprint( unsigned char x, char *buf ) { int i; for( i=0; i<8; i++ )
