I’ve just placed an order yesterday at SeeedStudio. Plenty of interesting stuff to play with for quite a bit :-) Seeeduino Stalker - Waterproof Solar Kit (x2) I’m getting more and more interested in XBee/ZigBee networks so the Stalker with be something »
I bought yesterday a LilyPad TechStyles Kit from Lextronic. This is a really simple kit with which you can easily start sewing some electronics. I bought it because it comes with some handy parts, like the switch, the coin cell battery handler and some »
This blog post is focused on how to design a REST API implementation with: good productivity, great performance, a decent auto-generated/always up-to-date documentation for REST API users/developers, including REST API libraries for many of the popular languages. I’ll explain here what I used to do ‘til last week and some few projects I’ve discovered recently which have helped me a lot in order to achieve the above goals. »
While doing some development in Java (using RXTX like the Arduino IDE does), I always had errors like this one: Caused by: gnu.io.PortInUseException: Unknown Application at gnu.io.CommPortIdentifier.open(CommPortIdentifier.java:354) at com.rapplogic »
I’ve been digging online for the last few weeks/months in order to find some retailers from which I could buy some Arduino related stuff and electronic components in general. Before I introduced it, I have to say that I usually prefer to go to a retail »
Following my recent hardware purchases, I wanted to be able to have an Android phone to talk to an Arduino. Being an iPhone kind of guy, I did not had a recent Android phone. Hopefully my parents got rid of a ZTE Link device a few months ago. This devices »
As much as I like Internet when I need to find some information or buy some stuff, I always prefer to buy from a local shop when the price is right (meaning rather close to what I can get online). So I went last Saturday to my local electronics store »
I heard a lot about using XBees for radio transmission between Arduinos and/or PCs. I decided to jump on this a few days ago and began by reading the excellent Building Wireless Sensor Networks book. After intensive lecture sessions, I felt confident »
This blog is not dead! I’ve been working over the last few weeks on redoing most of the electricity distribution in my house. I bought, last March, my first house (yay!!) and as I decided to buy a really old house (I mean really really old – can’t know »
Following my earlier post on Twitter’s Bootstrap framework, and being a Java developer relying on Maven for builds, I needed a way to compile LESS files from Bootstrap into CSS ones. I found a few plugins, but all of them were lacking decent documentation »