Posted on January 4th, 2012  Happy New Year 2012
Happy New Year to all the visitors of my site…! And with the New Year come a number of exciting changes ….
If you are here to visit Adi’s Electronics and purchase Compact Flash adapters, I am sorry to say that we are no longer selling them online at this point in time. There is still a small amount of stock left, and if you are interested we will give you a “killer deal” on what we have left in stock. Please contact me via the contact page. You can continue to buy Compact Flash adapters directly from PC Engines or one of his distributors.
If you are here to visit “The Wandering Mind” then you have come to the right place. This is still the same place, but instead of “The Wandering Mind” it will be know as “Adi’s Reflections of a Wandering Mind”. I will share with you all of the little projects that capture my imagination. With the new also comes a new domain. No longer will I be making use of wanderingmind.ca but it will be adis.ca from now on.
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Posted on January 1st, 2012  *uino-32u4
I have been thinking about some electronics projects again. While looking at processors and other details I discovered Arduino and also the Arduino compatible chipKit UNO32. These are some pretty neat devices which come with a development platform that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Instead of buying an original Arduino I bought some shields for projects and set out to build my own Arduino platform. Hence the *uino-32u4 was born. It is based on the soon to be release Arduino Leonardo. The Arduino folks were kind enough to include support for Leonardo in Arduino 1.0. So my *uino-32u4 should be supported out of the box.
The files for *uino-32u4 are available on Github. The project has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, CC BY-SA.
Posted on January 1st, 2012 I installed a new Debian host for my site. It was a perfect time to upgrade to the latest WordPress release and to look at a new theme. I am now using Atahualpa. I have to say it is rather great as pretty much the entire theme is configured via control panel. I do like editing CSS and PHP by hand, but it is much easier having the configuration parameters present in a helpful way with graphic.
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Posted on December 25th, 2011 Some time ago I wrote some PHP scripts to feed an iTunes library to an Icecast server. The project provides a framework and web based GUI to stream an iTunes library to an Icecast server.
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Posted on February 18th, 2011 This is a neat way to format code blocks. Parts cobbled together from various places. It is not longer exactly as used here since I have changed themes.
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Posted on January 27th, 2011 Obtain the FreeNAS image. For this example I am using FreeNAS-amd64-embedded-0.7.2.5543.img. Have a USB stick on hand that hopefully supports booting.
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Posted on November 13th, 2010 How exactly can one create a good old ISO image using readily available Mac tools? After all, the Disk Utility seems to heavily favor the DMG format. Here is the magic, using the terminal run:
hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o <output file> <folder with files>/
Note that the files to populate the ISO with need to be in a folder. hdiutil will process the folder contents, not the folder itself. Also note that the trailing slash behind the folder name is a requirement.
Posted on October 19th, 2010 Some quick instructions on how to create an ISO image from a CD or DVD using Mac OS X. But sadly this has failed in creating iso images of some disks, such as Microsoft installer disks.
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Posted on July 14th, 2010  French Onion Soup
This is how I make French Onion Soup.
Ingredients:
- 1 Tblsp Butter
- 1 Dash Seasalt
- 1 Large Videlia Onion or Sweet Onion, thinly sliced
- 2-1/4 Tsp Watkins Beef Soup and Gravy Base
- 2-1/4 Tsp Watkins Chicken Soup and Gravy Base
- 3 Cups Water
- 1/4 Cup Red Wine
- 1 Tsp Worchestershire Sauce
- 1 Tsp Parsley
- 1/2 Tsp Thyme
- Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper to Taste
- Croutons
- Cheese (Gouda or Swiss)
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Posted on November 12th, 2006  The Atmel AVR Dragon is a new programmer for Atmel AVR 8-bit Microcontrollers. I obtained this little beast because my old AVRISP serial programmer was useless due to lack of serial hardware on my PC. The Dragon was quite inexpensive and readily available at DigiKey. It promised to not only provide ISP (In-circuit Serial Programming), but also JTAG, debugWire and high voltage programming for AVR device. It arrived in a very stylish red little box, but no cables, enclosure or anything else for that matter. After some searching I came across the Serpac H-65 enclosure. It proved to be a perfect fit for “my” Dragon.
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