http://naxxfish.eu Computer Systems Engineer Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:13:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever I went to my Nan's house, she would always have a large variety of (generally very fatty) home baked goods on offer.  There was one which I could never resist, and this was her bread pudding.  Ever since I got into baking, I've been trying to work out what ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=383 Lately I've been busy trying to implement a SMS interface for a small community radio station. The way it works is this:  we've got a provider who recieves the SMSes on our behalf through a geographical telephone number (i.e. it starts 01227).  Once they recieve the SMS, they will use HTTP ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=10 Finally, I managed to replace my ancient desktop PC, beckett, with something that was designed in this century.  Going with my new naming scheme (elements) I've named it Palladium. Palladium (pronounced /pəˈleɪdiəm/, pə-LAY-dee-əm) is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. Quoeth Wikipedia. I decided on ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=5 So for a project, I'm using a PIC10F due to their very small size (in a SOT23-6, wow) and low cost.  They don't have interrupt support, but they do have a timer, watchdog timer and a comparator.  You can do some fairly funky things with them.  However, I'm opting to ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=357 We did it! High fives all round. After a lot of preparation, sweat and blood we managed to broadcast live, for 11 hours a day for 3 days, from a pigshed in the middle of nowhere. Here's a little tour of our makeshift station: This is the Edit Suite and ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=334 CSR is doing an outside broadcast at the music festival called Lounge on the Farm, and broadcasting live (right now as of this writing) on the Internet and on FM 97.4MHz in Canterbury. I am a volunteer for Engineering, and the team had the challenge of making all this ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=328 Since April I've been volunteering some of my free time to work with the Tech team at Canterbury Student Radio CSR FM (broadcasting on 97.4 FM in the Canterbury area, as well as streaming on the Internets). It's great fun, and gives me lots of freedom to work on ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=323 Something I came up with this afternoon with the help of Fluffy, and for a project that we'll be doing in the somewhat near future. It's a code, using colours. See if you can crack it ;) http://naxxfish.eu/?p=320 I like QR Codes.  I've made QR Poems before now, and the idea of having a barcode printed on my hand has been knocking around my head for a while, so I thought I'd give it another shot.  Unfortunately I didn't do it very well.  Note to self: paint sticks ... http://naxxfish.eu/?p=317 Yeah, Jenny from mah block! Uhh, no. http://naxxfish.eu/?p=308