making apps, making webs.

Podcast - "A multimedia digital file made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc." If you have a modern phone, ipod, or mp3 player you can play podcasts on the move.  Or you can listen to them on your computer when you're not mobile.  It may seem a bit weird explaining what a podcast is... but there are many people who do not know what they are, or haven't tried them.  Skip to the bottom for lists of German podcasts . Situations where you may be able to learn with a podcast: sitting at the computer doing an office job (if you don't need to talk lots!) on a bus/train, or walking/running (be careful!) Other methods of learning may not be possible in these situations.  For example, you probably can't have a teacher follow you around the park as you go jogging.  Also, they probably can't sit next to you at your office whilst you work. It's always better if you can talk out loud along with the podcas...

Taking a byte of bits of Serial, along with Green screen with Sam, pygame, and an Arduino hooked up to a light sensor and a motor thing. Coffee too?  Naturally. Where do we begin?  At the end of course.  A video of the result... The arduino code #include < Servo .h> Servo myservo; int potpin = 0; int val; void setup () {    Serial . begin (9600);   myservo. attach (9); }    void loop () {   val =  analogRead (potpin);    Serial . println (val);   val =  map (val, 62, 540, 0, 179);   myservo. write (val);    delay (15); } python pygame code Extended the " green eggs and ham" code I made recently to read serial data from the Arduino, and paint the screen different shades of green, whilst also making some silly sounds depending on the value read from the light sensor. import os import pygame import serial # guessing serial ports nam...

Touchless UI?  This is the next step in my little adventure into the world of Arduino... It can sense light, from which the Ardunio reads an analog signal and then drives a Servo Mototor.

Moving a servo motor(vrmmm vrommm) based on the analog input Linearly interpolated (LERP'd) from the Potentiometer (turny thing).

So the Arduino adventure continues... This time, playing around with fading a light via an Analog output.

Coffee good.  Different styles of coffee good.  Viet coffee good. Try and get the viet bean, and get it ground the way they do it too.  It's usually a mild flavour... but with the sweetened condensed milk it can be very sweet.  Plus you can make it on your desk!  Mostly I don't drink it sweetened, but that's the way they mostly do it, so for this video I did that too :) Here is a much better video on how to make Vietnamese style coffee... great song too!