The post discusses the author's struggles with tracking infrequent tasks like vaccination and legal document renewals. They highlight the limitations of traditional methods and share their discovery of the DutyRemind app, which simplifies organization by digitizing schedules and syncing reminders. The author invites others to share their tracking methods.
My kids have this RC fire engine that works in the 27MHz band. I got curious how the communication is, with objective to control the toy from laptop. I had an RTL SDR in my toolbox. I have used it with gnuradio software for a couple of analog reception tasks. Not for anything serious so [ ]
There used to be two ways in which capable individuals at organizations traditionally got more things done. For both the above the multiplication factor was very limited, as both delegation and coding required efforts to either manage people or computer systems, which beyond a point saturates the full available mental bandwidth of the high performer. [ ]
unshare -r used to work in older versions of ubuntu and stopped working in recent releases and returns the message unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map: Operation not permitted The -r option is quite useful in many cases like if you want to prevent an application access to the internet but allow a client-server communication that uses [ ]
Trying to connect to FPGA boards from iMPACT tool under linux throws error that the cable driver is not present. Searching the ISE install directory yields you some configure and setup scripts related to the various cable drivers. Running the script throws out another error related to the linux header files (linux/config.h not found). In [ ]
The key idea behind the sharing economy is better utilization leads to better economic efficiencies . We are witnessing an increase in efficiencies with the help of cloud and IoT techniques, that reduce the need for excess inventories at the manufacturer, leading to better utilization of capital. One step further is the concept of sharing economy [ ]
Cross compile is the only option for building applications for tiny embedded systems. But once you have a hardware capable of running Linux, you have multiple options. We will look at the various options and figure out the relative strengths Cross-Compilation If you have a non-linux OS, or if you have a very stripped down [ ]
Teardown of an un-branded 1kVA Square Wave Inverter. The only form of identificaton was a name TEKNIX/D12-V2 on the PCB. The box is screw fit, and can be opened easily. Inside there is a large transformer used for both up conversion in inverter mode and down conversion in charger mode; a single side PCB with [ ]