Updated http://moretrackslikethis.appspot.com/ with similar artist search and annoying bobbing notification bar. UX is the next thing I'm going to work on, bring back drag&drop and playlist generation.
Added similar artists to moretrackslikethis dev code. Now to make it look pretty. However, the lime green is growing on me.
I was lucky enough to be given an Arduino Uno for Christmas. For those who haven't heard of Arduino before, it's an open-source programmable electronics prototyping board. It allows you to write code then flash it onto the board and interact with other electronic components such as LEDs or speakers.
For me the Arduino is the perfect combination of software and hardware. It allows me to programme then see that code interact with the physical world. For example, it only took an hour of experimenting to get a little flashing traffic light system working. The code is similar to C++, and while I'm more experienced with JavaScript and Python it was relative easy to get use to. Here's the code:
int redPin = 10;
int yellowPin = 9;
int greenPin = 8;
void setup() {
pinMode(redPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(yellowPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(greenPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
digitalWrite(redPin, HIGH);
delay(300);
digitalWrite(yellowPin, HIGH);
delay(300);
digitalWrite(greenPin, HIGH);
delay(2000);
digitalWrite(redPin, LOW);
digitalWrite(yellowPin, LOW);
digitalWrite(greenPin, LOW);
delay(300);
}
As you can see it's relatively simple. The fun part is wiring it all up the breadboard with resisters and LEDs and seeing the flashed code running.
I'm really looking forward to making more advanced devices, ultimately culminating in a robotic arm which has always been a dream of mine to build.
So I'm really not a football fan of any kind, but the Vuvuzelas do amuse me. So, my probably one and only contribution to football is a Vuvuzela Bookmarklet that converts every bit of text on the page into Bzzzzzzzzzzz.
Updated: Now with sound thanks to http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/
Pointless? Yes, but I guess that's my sentiment on football.Update 2: It would seem Posterous is sanitising links and removing JavaScript from them. While is a very good thing, it makes posting Bookmarklets very difficult. So, for now try copying and pasting the following code into your address bar:
javascript:(function(){b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];e=b.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i%3Ce.length;%20i++){for(n=0;n%3Ce[i].childNodes.length;n++){if(e[i].childNodes[n].nodeType===3){e[i].childNodes[n].nodeValue='Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz';}}};s=document.createElement('embed');s.type='application/x-shockwave-flash';s.src='http://j.mp/cVTJJQ';b.appendChild(s)})()
Source code:
cd example.comwget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/bottle/bottle-0.6.4.tar.gzmv bottle-0.6.4/bottle.py ./
vim index.py
#!/usr/bin/python2.5import bottlefrom bottle import route@route('/')def index(): return 'Hello World!'if __name__ == '__main__': from wsgiref.handlers import CGIHandler CGIHandler().run(bottle.default_app())chmod +x index.py
DirectoryIndex index.py<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine onRewriteBase /RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.py/$1 [L]</ifmodule>
