Blabber about computing and electronics.
Well, ‘09 has been a good year so far. I love python, so I wrote a personal blog in it, you can find it here. Also, I started Engineering at UQ and am having an awesome time.
I bought a unibody Macbook 13″ and love it 
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No-one probably comes here since I was serving 500s for about 3 months, so I best get writing again!
If there is anyone out there reading this, happy new year! I have had so much time lately to work on my own projects that it is becoming difficult to choose which one to work on. On top of this, I found out that I have even more time off then I expected. My New Year’s resolution is to write a decent, informative post at least once a week (excluding exam weeks), so to the 5 or so people who have subscribed to my RSS, I promise more is coming soon!
My latest two projects: developing a photography gallery for nelpix.com and creating a sort of race timer for little remote control cars (more on that later).
Have a great year everyone!
As of today, I no longer attend school! I envisage that this will leave me with much more free time for my own projects. I also expect to update this blog a lot more with little guides, so watch this space!
For those of you that don’t know, the AppleTV is a small, low powered OSX-running PC that has been built specifically for streaming and playing videos to a TV via WiFi. It has HDMI, component, optical audio, 802.11n and is completely fanless (yay!). Thanks to a few people (notably Turbo and the NitoTV team), the AppleTV has been opened for development.
Although I didn’t realise it at first, writing a portable driver for the USB13700 in python was a very good idea. There is a USB port on the back of the AppleTV that is initally disabled. If I remember correctly, all set top boxes sold in the US need an external debug port to be approved by the FCC (or something along those lines). Since Apple doesn’t want anyone using the port, it is disabled by the Mach kernel after loading. To get around this is quite a complex process and I wont go into it completely here, but follow these steps (google is your friend here): Continue reading ‘USB13700 on AppleTV!’
For the 50th time, I have a new blog. This time it will stick though, its on my server.