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May 2011

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The Bytes Brothers

http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=1171
Sort of a cross between Encyclopedia Brown and Micro Adventure, each volume in this series contains several short mysteries. The user must read carefully and run very simple BASIC computer programs in order to guess the solutions.
#books #mystery #programming
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Micro Adventure

http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=1163
These linear novels are occasionally interrupted by simple BASIC computer programs designed to be typed in and played. The idea is to simulate key moments in the story, though the programs are generally of the extremely simplistic "type in a word or number and hit ENTER" variety. The series was followed by the Magic Micro Adventure books for younger readers.
#adventure #books #programming
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IRControl

http://www.staarcom.com/software/IRControl
What is it? This is a combined MacOS X Preference Pane and faceless background application (FBA) to receive and send Infrared signals (more...)
#av #ir #linux #mac #remotes
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bpython interpreter

http://bpython-interpreter.org
bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating systems (I hear it works fine on OS X). It is released under the MIT License.It has the following features:
archive.org #16897

hij1nx/weld - GitHub

https://github.com/hij1nx/weld
Simple. Weld binds data to markup, and can generate markup based on your data. There's NO special syntax or data reshaping required. It works in the browser and in node.js! Weld is currently 3.66Kb uglified with no dependencies other than a valid DOM. Weld will apply values to elements the way that elements expect to have their values set.
#dom #javascript #node #nodejs #webdev
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IguanaWorks - USB IR

http://iguanaworks.net/product1.psp
Our USB IR Transmitter/Receiver is a standard USB device that can transmit and receive the infrared codes supported by LIRC (Linux only) and WinLIRC (Windows only and beta). Combined with (Win)LIRC, this device can communicate with most home electronics, such as TVs, stereos, DVD players, receivers, and their associated remote controls. When used with MythTV, you can turn your computer into a TiVo-like media center.
#ir #linux #lirc #remote #usb
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NSLU2-Linux - HowTo / AddAnInfraredReceiverAndTransmitterWithLIRC browse

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddAnInfraredReceiverAndTransmitterWithLIRC
With the following (minimal) hardware circuitry the NSLU2 is able to receive and transmit infrared signals, e.g. like RC5. These are normally received by audio and video equipment and sent by remote controls from your couch. The signals are decoded and generated in software using LIRC.
#control #embedded #ir #linux #lirc #nslu2 #remote
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Sensor tutorials - IR remote receiver/decoder tutorial

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/sensors/ir.html
IR detectors are little microchips with a photocell that are tuned to listen to infrared light. They are almost always used for remote control detection - every TV and DVD player has one of these in the front to listen for the IR signal from the clicker. Inside the remote control is a matching IR LED, which emits IR pulses to tell the TV to turn on, off or change channels. IR light is not visible to the human eye, which means it takes a little more work to test a setup.
#arduino #electronics #hacking #remote
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How To: Transmission-CLI and RSS | bradford's blawg

http://theblawblog.com/use-transmission-cli-to-download-from-rss
I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from an RSS feed. My reason for this is that I love Top Gear. But I don’t have BBC America (or a TV) so my only alternative is downloading it. But I don’t want to have to manually find the latest episode and then wait for it to download. This is a short how-to to get a simple RSS system set up using transmission-cli.
#rss #torrents #transmission
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