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 Finally released my linux driver for the Ajeco ANDI-SERVO motion control board.ANDI-SERVO motion control board

VisTablet under Debian Squeeze


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A new toy arrived today – the VisTablet, which is just a rebadged Aiptek 600U (model number WCK-C121). They sell as Aiptek or Waltop or Medion or any one of a few other names for about €65 on ebay.ie at the moment, so I thought what the heck, I do a fair bit of stuff in Gimp so maybe it’s worth a look. A few clicks and a week or so later and it arrives. Cue tearing open the box and unwrapping!

Plugging it into the laptop (Thinkpad R61 running Debian Squeeze amd64) got an instant result in that it found the device and allowed cursor movement… but no actual buttons or pressure sensor stuff, so it couldn’t work as a tablet. So off to google we go and after trying some frustrating messing about with udev rules (to create /dev/apitektablet - which isn’t necessary it turns out) and hal fdi files (to set up… Read the rest

New CS7004 hardware arrives…


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[digg=http://digg.com/programming/New_CS7004_hardware_arrives] So for CS7004′s labs, I wanted to have one large-ish, deep-ish, multi-step, interesting project. And I’ve thought of one and I’ll write it up as we go through it (no fair readers here learning before the students!).

But here’s a sneak peek at the hardware they’ll be using :)

(Assuming, of course, that I can get the sodding thing to do what it needs to do!)

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Duct tape considered harmful

Duct tape prohibitedWhy Joel Spolsky was wrong about ‘duct tape programmers’ being good programmers.

30 years of C


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