Outroot and things

Electronics, programming, computers, and geek stuff by Kevin Darlington

bitpim2google

I’ve had Google Voice for a while and I wanted to trans­fer my list of con­tacts from my phone to it. So, I decided to make a sim­ple python script to con­vert the CSV con­tacts export from Bit­pim to some­thing that Google voice could import. This code is not exhaus­tive what­so­ever. Mod­ify it at will.

http://github.com/outroot/bitpim2google

Nokia 6100 LCD run­ning on a minibully

I recently bought a Nokia 6100 LCD from Ebay because I am in an LCD craze phase. Since I have no need for this LCD right now, I decided to port some code over to the PIC24H minibully from Spark­fun. Con­tinue reading »

Clock pro­to­type

I’ve been want­ing to make my own alarm clock for some time now, since I’m unsat­is­fied with any alarm clock on the mar­ket (neglect­ing over­priced ones). I just made a quick pro­to­type to see if I liked it or not.

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HoN­stats

Here is a script I made a long time ago when Heroes of New­erth first released its beta. It sim­ply retrieves all of the player’s sta­tis­tics given their player name.

http://github.com/outroot/honstats

STM32 with 4-bit LCD

Here is a 4-bit LCD library for the STM32 that I based off of the LCD4BitLibrary for Arduino. It’s light­weight, but it also incor­po­rates Arduino’s Print class.

http://github.com/outroot/STM32-LCD-4Bit

STM32 HD Project template

Here is a STM32 project tem­plate that I based off of http://www.micromouseonline.com/blog/2009/10/19/another-stm32-project-template.

I made some changes to it to get it work­ing for my pur­poses and the CodeS­ourcery G++ lite (EABI) compiler.

http://github.com/outroot/STM32-HD-Project-template

San­guino

I decided to use a San­guino for my next project and I noticed that every time I reset it with the push­but­ton, it would take around 10 sec­onds to start the pro­gram. I thought this was absurd since the reg­u­lar Arduino doesn’t take that long. I decided to dive into the boot­loader firmware and find out the prob­lem. The San­guino ver­sion I’m deal­ing with is v1.4 r1.

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Repur­posed tv-b-gone

At church, we have a pro­jec­tor that is close to the ceil­ing and far away from the audio/video booth. The remote con­trol that came with the pro­jec­tor does not have a very far range. I have to get out of the booth and walk close to the back row and keep mov­ing the remote until I get the pro­jec­tor to turn off or on. It wasn’t only annoy­ing for me, but I’m sure it was dis­tract­ing for the church members.

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8x8 Heart

I decided this year to make a 8x8 RGB LED device to give to my girl­friend for Valentine’s Day. I had made her a heart of red LEDs two years ago and I decided to step it up a lit­tle. No, this was not a cheap solu­tion (it cost around $100 in mate­ri­als, includ­ing all the stuff I bought that I ended up not using). I spent more time on this thing than any­thing I have made before.

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Con­vert­ers

So, my girl­friend bought me a STM32F103 board to play around with that has a RS-232 ser­ial port on it to pro­gram it. Since I haven’t owned any com­puter in the last few years that has a ser­ial port, I needed to get a converter.

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