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A primer on the design of a frequency detector (Part 1) 13 Sep 2010 | 04:45 am
In French, we say "Theory is like practice, except in practice". I am definitely experiencing that. While trying to understand electronics, especially electronics for radio frequencies (RF), I am hitt...
Free laundry for everybody :) 2 Jul 2010 | 05:42 am
Where I live, there is a room with the laundry machine. Once every other week, you can use it to wash your clothes. We have different systems to pay: (pseudo) smart card, coins, etc, it depends on whe...
When a stranger calls you at work... 11 Jun 2010 | 06:32 am
Hey guys, I apologize for not being very active these last times. I've been working and trying to prepare the amateur radio exam (not sure I'll do it, but I'm preparing it...), so nothing very exciti...
Analyzing the Fiat Blue&Me iPhone Adapter 4 Apr 2010 | 12:31 am
I recently got a new car, a Fiat Punto to be more precise. The car has a lot of gadgets inside, like the cruise control, USB, bluetooth for the cellphone, etc. It also has the an infotainment system c...
Dumping out the content of the Arduino 21 Mar 2010 | 01:09 am
I'm very impressed by how easy it is to make a small program on the arduino, the community did a great job. Also, I think it's a very easy introduction to embedded systems, because you don't have to w...
My first steps with the Arduino 17 Jan 2010 | 03:16 am
I recently received the arduino I ordered on Makershed. Actually, I took a starter kit to play with this small piece of hardware. The board has an ATMEGA328 uproc (8-bit) with few I/Os to play with. ...
Finding the number of parameters directly in the assembly 12 Jan 2010 | 04:58 am
Recently, when working on my library tracer, I wanted to know the number of parameters a function uses. I did not have any access to source code or debug info, so I had to find another way to get this...
Using Stumbleupon to spread virii ? 16 Dec 2009 | 04:05 am
Chances are that you discovered my website by "stumbling upon". I like this way of spending time, by fucking around over the Internet. You just click and you get a new webpage that fits sometimes what...
Abuse the load time of a Web page, for DoS & profit 23 Oct 2009 | 05:56 am
In my university, we have different canteens (this is how it's called) where you can eat for lunch. Each canteen puts its food on a common website. You also have the possibility to see what was yeste...
Defeat google's canned response 30 Sep 2009 | 06:45 am
There is a great application in gmail lab, called "canned responses". Basically, it replies on your behalf, when your email matches the filter you set up. This is great for example if you go on vacati...
