The company I work at, like many, uses Windows for our workstation PCs. I much prefer developing in Linux, and so do most of my day-to-day work in a virtual machine. (I love VirtualBox’s Seamless Window feature for this). I Continue reading
This post is part 3 of the In-car USB Power series. You may want to read part 1 and part 2 first. When all the parts for the power converter arrived, I breadboarded the circuit, and it worked as expected. Continue reading
This post is part 2 of the In-Car USB Power series. You may want to read part 1 first. The USB 2.0 standard power output is 500mA, but modern smartphones, tablets, music players and other devices take a long time Continue reading
I consider a line-in jack to be an essential feature for a car. Since I started driving, I have always had some device with audio on it that I wanted to play in the car. In my first car I Continue reading
After a few months of off-and-on work, I finally have version 2.0 of the CanShield ready! I received some good feedback from users and had several ideas of my own I wanted to implement. Now called FazCAN to differentiate from Continue reading
I got on a few weeks back to create a new post, and found that my website was gone! Instead I just got a browser error saying I had too many redirects. I hoped maybe there was just a problem Continue reading
At work, I am developing for a Coldfire V1 processor using Freescale’s Codewarrior development environment. Sometimes when digging into the generated assembly, I notice that the compiler seems to have made strange choices about register use and stack management. I Continue reading
I have wanted to try CyanogenMod on my G2x for a while, and finally decided to go for it. I tried to follow the rooting instructions on the CyanogenMod wiki, but they didn’t work for my version of Android (2.3). Continue reading
I’ve been poking around with the CanShield software recently to try to clean it up. I felt that the first release was a bit cumbersome to use and had some maintenance disadvantages for me. As I’ve been considering adding features, Continue reading
Over five years ago, I bought a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I love this laptop. It has a non-shiny screen, 1680×1050 resolution (larger than more recent Dell models), well functioning trackpad, sturdy construction… it’s just an all-around great machine. It Continue reading