Tasker is probably my favorite Android app. It gives you total control over your device. Not to mention there’s a great community that develops all sorts of interesting tasks/integrations. I was recently on a...
I use Domoticz for my home automation needs. I’ll just start off by saying it has its pros and cons. Pros: It seems to have pretty wide device support It allows for a completely...
First World Problems I live in San Francisco where our coffee is strong, our alcohol is stronger, and our public transit system (Muni) is weak. OK, that’s not entirely fair, but Muni is slow and unreliable:...
The back-story: As one of my friends has stated… The Internet is a scary place without Adblock It’s true. And while I think he was largely referring to the ubiquity and annoying nature of many...
Occasionally, I’ve had the need to populate sample users into an Active Directory for projects. There are, no doubt, other ways to do this that are simpler/more direct. For example, it’s likely incredibly easy...
I finally passed 100 solved problems on Project Euler, an online math & programming “competition” of sorts. This puts me back in the top 100 perl programmers on the site! In a related note, I taught...
Overview Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision...
Background For certain classes of antennas, e.g. Yagi-Uda antennas, the design characteristics have no known “best case” numeric values. That is, if you want to design a Yagi-Uda antenna for a particular frequency, there...
Elliptical filters are neat filters that have equiripples and very sharp frequency cutoffs. This is an application note I wrote for when/where you would use one. For more information, check out the elliptic filter page on Wikipedia.
