Hey everyone, watch out if you want to try twitterank.com, it seems to be a scam!
While following the coverage of Apple’s macbook event at gizmodo, I found one picture that I think is worth sharing,
they took a shot from people writing stuff about the event… And from few notebook screens I could see there, at least 3 using wordpress. Thumbs up WP!! 
BTW, new macbook’s looks amazing, can’t wait to get one of those!!!
I was traveling to São Bento do Sul last weekend to work on the municipal elections, and found something very funny. There is a FIAT reseller place called FUCK, I believe that it is the owner’s last name (what a great last name to have!). Even if my last name was this, I would never have a business with this amazing name! You can check some pics and video below…
Last weekend I worked in the Brazilian Municipal Elections that happened on 5th October. My job was to transmit all votes from the city I was, to the main data center in the capital. While doinig my things, there was people testing all the machines, and I realised that there was a pinguim on the booting screen. So I made some research, and discovered that the voting machines have its own distro, running on kernel 2.6.16.57 and using some open libraries like SDL, zlib, boost, jpeg, freetype and others.
This is a cool idea, making a binary counter music.
“Niklas turns a commonly silent digital process into music -
This is an experiment, where I count one byte up - from 00000000 to 11111111. Decimal spoken, this is from 0 to 255. I have assigned a sound to each bit and when it switches from 0 to 1, the sound is played”
Via [Makezine]
Kyle Stewart built another cool Dev Board for the ATmega168/8 (same microcontroller used in arduino).
The news thing about this board, is that it have a “vertical approach”, leaving more space on the breadboard for other components, a excellent idea!
Some features:
- Works with ATmega168 (and probably others)
- 16MHz crystal
- 5V and 3V regulators can supply power to breadboard
- Plugs vertically into breadboard taking minimal space
- ISP programmable
- 1-wire debug can be used
- Simple to build, no surface mount components
On kyle’s website you will find the schematic, eagle files and more.
Take a look at: http://binaryideas.blogspot.com
In case you think a arduino board is too much for your ATmega Development, you should check this board made by yourITronics. Using the microcontroller`s internal clock, and programming using an ICSP cable you can start developing right now!
In the website you’ll find the scheme and the eagle file.
And Zach Smith says: “I’m really really really excited to announce this new product. This one was directly conceived, funded, and produced here by the RRRF as a direct result of the kind souls who have supported us so far. To get to the meat, the Sanguino is a new microcontroller board inspired by the Arduino. We took the biggest baddest 40-pin DIP that atmel makes and made a board with it. Its based on the atmega644P which provides 64K of flash, 4K of ram, and 32 GPIO pins. The best part: its compatible with the Arduino software, which means all of your code should run on it no problem, and you can program it just as easily.”
You can buy a kit from the RRRF for $25 or check out the Sanguino website.
I am totally going to get one!!!
Yesterday I was going to start watching a movie, when me and my friend pedro decided to give up on the movie and build a binary clock. After sometime thinking on how to program it, we made it. It works beautifully, so I decided to show here how I’ve done. It may not be the easiest way to make it work, but that’s what we’ve done.