Chris’ Miscellanea

Got myself Win8 for €30 (upgrade from a old Student-for-Free Vista license I never used, instead of €150 it looked like a bargain). My norma...

A friendly colleague gave me a Betty Remote . It's a marvelous device as a dirt-cheap ARM7 (LPC2200) eval board and flashing worked so ...

Update (November 2016):  Archlinux on the Toradex T20 (with Archlinux' kernel) A lot of people got hold of a Toradex T20 board which w...

Today I disassembled a MOTU 882 MK2 Audio Interface that exhibited significantly increased noise on one of the microphone preamplifier input...

It's not rocket science, but it took me a while to collect all the pieces, so here's a short summary, mainly to serve as a reminder ...

I just spent about one hour looking for a small tool (i.e. NOT starting libreoffice and putting a picture on a empty page, export as pdf) t...

Found this ancient (well... almost, it's from about 1982) chip at work. It's a development version for applications where a mask-pro...

I know that you missed it since the day Xorg switched to an all-black default background.   $ xsetroot -fg black -bg white \ ...

I currently have a iBook-G4 on my desk, running Linux. Everything is dandy, only a few things with the keyboard are odd. Two keys are swappe...

Things I learnt about my dishwasher today: It has a Mitsubishi M38503M4-722FP micro controller with 512 byte RAM and 16kByte of mask-pr...

Hey, Xilinx. Thanks for giving out your FPGA development environment for free (as in beer) and all... but seriously WTF: Since I downloaded ...

To replace my current network router, I'm planning to maybe put a Raspberry Pi in the case of a Cobalt RaQ I have standing around sinc...

Hey, Markus, I can foodblog, too.

Sometimes kernel-development happens at the pace of glacial advance... Here's an example: This kernel patch , which makes a FastTrack...

I’m currently on a shopping-spree on eBay. There are certain categories of slightly outdated equipment that frequently contain amazing thing...

Holidays, and unfortunately picasaweb does not allow me to upload these panoramic pictures :-(, so off to ipernity it goes...

(artefact on the upper left is due to me adding a “filler” photo shot from a slightly different position…)

Just don’t ask why. I got myself a new video camera ! ( Previously )

I bought a FEZ Panda to play around with the NXP LPC2387 , and at 32€, it's a rather cheap development platform. Furthermore it has all...

A long time ago I had played with my old HP 82240A printer , but unfortunately I somehow misplaced the software I wrote back then. So I re-...