http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog Blabber about computing and electronics. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:41:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (I was messing around with PIL and realised that the dithering capabilities were perfect for my graphical LCD. As you can see, it turned out rather well!) http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=102 GTK is awesome. PyGTK is awesome. PyGTK on Windows is far, far less than awesome. I recently wrote some software that runs fine on my Linux box after a couple of apt-gets, but unfortunately the software is for Windows users. I spent a good part of the morning getting all ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=94 So, I've finally gone Linux-only on my desktop with a nice fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10. I have to say that Ubuntu has improved greatly since I last used it on the desktop (I have been running Ubuntu Server for a while with no issues as well), but there are ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=82 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 :D. No-one probably comes here since ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=78 I often see quite large scale projects online made with Arduinos, but as a person who has moved from AVRs to Arduino what I see doesn't make a lot of sense. The arduino is essentially a prototyping device and while there is nothing really wrong with using it in a ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=64 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 ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=60 Every so often, a post pops up in my RSS reader that is something along the lines of "20 optimisation tricks" or "10 techniques to make your code run faster". Sure, everyone wants their code to run faster, but a number of these techniques only serve to make code run ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=56 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! http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=51 SPOILER ALERT: This post contains a solution to Project Euler problem 20. I gave some more Project Euler a go last week and when I came across problem 20, I knew it was time for me to finally learn how to use closures. I could not find much accessible information for beginners, ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=44 In one of my various orders to Sparkfun, I picked up a vs1002 IC on a breakout board. Just yesterday I got round to having a good look at it, and I figured if I show my code then others will not have to do the boilerplate and just get ... http://www.penjuinlabs.com/blog/?p=42