Posted at: Tue, Jun 29th, 2010 | 6:16PM UTC By Josh Ashby
A few items of update. First off, TI has launched a new product, the MSP430 Launchpad.
The Launchpad is a $4.30 with free shipping dev board for TI’s MSP430 chip family. On the board there is USB which supplies power, and acts as the debugging emulator and the programmer for the chip, and then a nice 20 pin DIP socket for the MSP430 chips. The board breaks out all of the pins for the chip, and also has a spot for an external crystal. After a very frustrating, and long cursing at TI’s servers spurt, which lasted a good day as the Launchpad was so popular I finally got around to placing my order, however the backorder for the Board looks like I will have it around the end of July, start of August sadly. Hopefully I can find, and build a dev environment for the MSP430 on linux, seeing as there is a GCC port for it already all that is left is integrating it with Code::Blocks, and finding a way to upload the code to the MSP430.
Other goodies that I have received include Read more…
Posted at: Sun, Nov 8th, 2009 | 9:31PM UTC By Josh Ashby
It’s been a while since I’ve had a big software challenge as most of my time of energy have been focused on BOB. Because of this, I’ve decided to make a CMS using Perl.
Thats right, the first useful thing I’m programming in Perl is yet another blogging and content management system. I decided to use Perl because it’s become the second best thing in the world, pulling in right behind Python, and because Irecently got this new web server (thanks to the parents and birthdays), I have a public place to show off my Perl. Also, Perl’s ease of use with MySQL databases, and it’s ability to handle text in a neat fashion makes it a good choice for this. Read more…
Posted at: Fri, Nov 6th, 2009 | 1:22AM UTC By Josh Ashby
Welcome to joshashby.com.
Most will notice this site, and my old site at josh.byethost16.com look and function the same, the only difference being that this site has Perl and Python, among other things on it, which my old site does not.
To take a look at the Perl, I uploaded BOB’s website. It features a CMS that I wrote my self (which you can find the source for in my bedroom-server github repo) with visual effects powered by MooTools, the javascript framework that softdrink on #sparkfun was kind enough to show me. You can find the site here: http://bob.joshashby.com. Hope the transition to this new server continues to go smoothly!
Posted at: Sat, Oct 24th, 2009 | 5:31PM UTC By Josh Ashby
One of the difficulties with maintaining a personal project site, such as this one (http://joshashby.com) is updating the content. Once upon a time, when my site was less than a year old and on the freeweb network, I manually opened my pages, added the content I wanted, and saved/closed the file. This worked fine for me, except for the fact that I could not modify, and update my site from any computer. Read more…
Posted at: Sun, Oct 18th, 2009 | 8:45PM UTC By Josh Ashby
Every one should have one of these servers, it’s got folder and cd drive sharing (Samba), ssh capabilities, a development web server (Xampp), a private IRC chat network (oftc-hybrid), and and OpenVZ server. In this how to I’ll walk you through setting up one of these servers, but please note I will not cover any items of major security, this is up to you to decide how to lock down your computers. My server is running Ubuntu 9.04 and all the commands that I give will be fore Ubuntu and all the menus will be for Gnome. This How To assumes you have a good idea of how to use the Linux terminal, enough that you can manage a system that has no GUI such as Gnome or KDE. It also assumes that you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed, internet access for installing the programs (and reading this), and time. Finally, it assumes that you will do your own research into these packages, and know how to use and configure them properly for your need; this How To Read more…
Posted at: Tue, Jul 28th, 2009 | 11:44AM UTC By Josh Ashby
A few people have asked how I do the curvy traces in eagle so I though I would do a little 5 sec how to, simply, when routing, use the three curvy lines for the trace style at the top of the eagle window:
Posted at: Wed, Jul 15th, 2009 | 12:49PM UTC By Josh Ashby
Yesterday me and Jeremy got together and decided to make a stop motion animation. Stop motion is tedious work, taking a photo after every little move, but has a cool effect. so heres the video:
