Gathering Components for AeroQuad

February 17, 2010

Today, I received Arduino-based microcontroller and other components from Carancho Engineering LLC. I am very excited to get started but I still need to buy more components and also some tools. Just for a record, I bought these items from them. Arduino MEGA w/Atmega 1280 ARDUINO-02 USD64.95 AeroQuad Shield v1.6 AQ1-006 USD24.95 IMU 5 Degrees [...]

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Singapore Airshow 2010

February 10, 2010

Here are some photos of flying display on last Saturday morning and afternoon. This was my first time taking photos of aircrafts and I wish I studied the techniques a bit more before this event. I do not know if I am attending another one in 2012 but if I am, I’m going to take [...]

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My New Timbuk2 Bag?

January 28, 2010

Actually, it’s not my bag (yet). I am seriously thinking about ordering a MacBook Pro 13″ and I thought it might be nice to get a bag to go with it. New fabrics from Timbuk2 are really nice and I just love trying different combinations of fabrics and customizing “my” bag. This is my current [...]

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Moving Into A New Place

December 17, 2009

I recently got a new slice (512MB RAM, 20GB disk, 200GB bandwidth) from Slicehost. With the new slice, I decided to start from scratch and I am now in the process of importing my old blog posts. Yes, I know I can do dump or import of old posts, but I want to start fresh [...]

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Working Around HTTP Test Issue in Go Programming Language

November 30, 2009

This is just a note on installing/testing the Go Programming Language from Google. I followed the instructions from IT戦記 (in Japanese). According to the article, 早速 Go 言語を試してみる！, amachang reported that HTTP test failed. I also had the same test failure, but after I disabled the firewall temporarily and ran the test again, HTTP test [...]

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Search MacPorts’ trac, Github, Google Blog Search via LaunchBar

October 18, 2009

I have been using LaunchBar since version 3 (as of now, version 5 RC4) and one of the features I like is being able to run search from its simple interface. After activating LaunchBar (with simple Control-Space key combination), I enter ‘goog’ (short for Google search) and press Enter key. Type your search terms and [...]

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