It seems that almost every big IT company needs to have their own programming language nowadays. It seems that every few months someone announces a new fad language, despite most of them them rarely bringing anything new to the table, or the new things they do bring not being significant enough to warrant switching from →
I needed to interface PC to some RS-485 test circuits, so I decided to try this cheap USB to RS485 Adapter – Black + Green adapter for that. I selected this specifically because of the cheap price (it is considerably cheaper than anything else I have seen for the same purpose). There should not be →
I read from Tietoviikko and Facebook today that the first computer programming championships is going to be held in Finland this spring. Hello World Open 2014 competition will be held this spring in Helsinki. The competition is hosted by two Finnish IT companies: technology company Reaktor and very successful mobile gaming company Supercell. The organizers want →
lsof is a very useful Linux command, which can be used to report a list of all open files and the processes that opened them. lsof is very useful in debugging because files in the Linux/Unix system include disk files, named pipes, network sockets and devices opened by all processes. lsof name comes from “list →
Some time ago I wanted an easy way to power logic circuits on breadboard (both 5V and 3.3v circuit as needed). The product 121305 3.3V / 5V Power Module for Breadboard – Deep Blue seemed to fit the needs pretty well at few dollars (around $3.5). It takes 6.5~12V DC input voltage and outputs regulated →
Finnish gaming industry is selling well. Not just games and related products, but also game companies. Finnish game companies Rovio and Supercell have been selling games very well for few years. The Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever, Supercell, was sold last year to GungHo And Softbank for $1.5 Billion. Rovio had just two years ago turned down →
Drones are a popular hacking topic. For many people they are serious on Drone DIY, but you can also make fun with them. Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious ‘Drone 2 Home’ video is a very fynny advertisement. It make bogus claims that Netflix has come up with a new DVD delivery service – →
World Wide Web turns 25 years old. World Wide Web turned 25 years today according to The browser’s resized future in a fragmented www world article. Wikipedia verifies that in March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and former CERN employee, wrote a proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. Twenty-five →
For something as ubiquitous as the internet today, it certainly isn’t easy to find where it all started. You might know History of Internet quite well in technical details, but what about the locations? Gizmodo article This Is The Room Where The Internet Was Born shows where the first ARPANET node was installed, where communications →
Few days ago I wrote about SCADA for Arduino that allowed to build a nice computer user interface for controlling Arduino. This post is a continuation to that. In the earlier posting I got the LED on Arduino board to be controlled on/foo with SCADA software. Now I connected a relay module to this output →