They're back now, sorry about that :)
Whar did mah LOSI pages go?
Now it doesn't say that anymore :)
The shoutbox says doesn't work yet, but it does!
Sorry about lsp... You should be approved now.
btw. You Should Fix The About Me Section On The Left
Hi Tobbe, nice site. I've regostred at lsp.litestep.info. now. I've done it some weeks before to, but registration has faild. Now I'm waiting for my approval.
So how's the new layout coming Tobbe? >:)
Yeah, I've been bugging Acidfire about adding that :)
Hey, love the new lsprogress site. How about an rss-feed for it? :)
Posted in: Development | Date: 2009-05-17 | Author: Tobbe
Added Vista (and 2k8 and 7) support to tVolEzy. Changed the volume span to 0-100 so it could be the same on both XP and Vista.
I think this is the first module for LS that can change the volume on Vista :)
Binary: http://tlundberg.com/downloads/tVolEzy-1.0.zip
Source: http://github.com/Tobbe/tvolezy/zipball/v1.0
Posted in: Development | Date: 2009-05-01 | Author: Tobbe
I have a new volume changing module for LiteStep for you :)
Binary: http://tlundberg.com/downloads/tVolEzy-0.1.zip
Source: http://github.com/Tobbe/tvolezy/zipball/v0.1
From the readme:
tVolEzy - The easy to use volume changing module written by Tobbe
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Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-03-11 | Author: Tobbe
As always these things take longer than you thought they would when you started. There have been many long days in school to finish this. But in the end it was really worth it. I have learned a lot and without this class I would never had began playing with microcontrollers even though I've been wanting to for some time.
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-03-10 | Author: Tobbe
Only thing I had ever written previously that used the COM port of the computer was a small Java program for Linux that used an already written library. Now I was going to write something from scratch in C++ that ran on Windows.
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-03-09 | Author: Tobbe
To give a good first impression I wanted a nice looking menu when starting the game. To save program memory and speed up drawing I split the menu graphics in three different matrices instead of one big as I did for the game background. I have one big for the top half of the screen with the text "Tetris by Tobbe".
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-03-06 | Author: Tobbe
I had this idea that the tetris should be able to run on battery and that it should be able to power itself down from software. I needed some extra hardware to solve that. You can see it all in the photos. For the battery part I needed a voltage regulator so I could run everything off of a 9V battery.
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-03-04 | Author: Tobbe
One of the things I wrote in the initial list of requirements was that I wanted to be able to send the final score of a round of tetris to a computer. I was going to do that using the uart capabilities of the atmega. This communication protocol is very timing critical and the internal clock source of the ATmega16 just isn't precise enough.
Posted in: Development | Date: 2009-03-02 | Author: Tobbe
New update to my tiny system volume controlling module for LiteStep.
Changes in this version are:
* Included the tlibc project in the tVol solution, and added lsapi.h and lsapi.lib from the LiteStep SDK to the tVol source folder. This should simplify compilation for everyone.
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-02-27 | Author: Tobbe
With the basic hardware connected it was time to start programming the microcomputer. I've been using AVR Studio with WinAVR (AVR-GCC for Windows). I had never written anything from the ground up for any atmega computer before so I had to start with the very basics. My first program only made an output pin go high (+5V).
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-02-24 | Author: Tobbe
When I had decided on a layout I started adding wires. First I added all wires that needed to be soldered, and then I finished off with those I could attach with the wire wrap gun.
Posted in: Development, Hardware, Tetris | Date: 2009-02-20 | Author: Tobbe
Before soldering anything to the protoboard I played around with different placements of the parts to get a layout I was satisfied with. My main concern was to have adequate space around the direction keys (left, right, down, rotate). I also had to place the display somewhere above the buttons.
Posted in: Tetris, Development, Hardware | Date: 2009-02-18 | Author: Tobbe
I'm building a Tetris as a project for school. I'm using an Atmel ATmega16 AVR micro computer, a 64x128 pixel LCD with a KS0108 driver and some other small pieces of hardware. I began by writing a list of requirements for my tetris game. When I had those on paper I drew up a block diagram so I knew how to connect all the hardware.
Posted in: File server | Date: 2008-12-06 | Author: Tobbe
There are a few options here: Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Solaris. If you read my last post about building a file server you probably guessed that I liked the sound of ZFS and it's z-raid. You would have made a correct guess. This eliminates Windows and Linux.
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-12-06 | Author: Tobbe
I have moved the code to add and edit posts to my two new classes, TPostsList and TPost. It used to just be functions in index.php, but it obviously fits better in the aforementioned classes.
Doing this shrunk index.php from more than 600 lines of code to about 300 lines. It really is much easer to get an overview of what that file does now.
Posted in: Cellphone | Date: 2008-12-02 | Author: Tobbe
My cellphone has been acting out on me. It started with the music player crashing way too often. It played around five songs, then it ended with the very uninformative message "General: System error". Sometimes it ended with a "corrupt file" error message. After rebooting the phone I could play those files just fine though...
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-12-02 | Author: Tobbe
I have added a few more options to how images are displayed. It used to be that all images were resized and displayed to the right. Now when I post an image I can choose if I want it to be resized or not (on the front page list of post) and where I want to put it (top, right, bottom or left).
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-11-30 | Author: Tobbe
I have made some changes to the website over the weekend.
Most notably for any visitors is that all the small images on the main page of the site are now clickable to get to the bigger version.
I have made tweaks to the function that creates the excerpts.
Posted in: File server | Date: 2008-11-18 | Last edited: 2008-12-06 | Author: Tobbe
One important question I had to answer was "What kind of storage solution do I want?". Some of the hard drives I store my things on now are about four years old and I'm starting to worry that they might die soon. I don't like worrying about that, so for my file server I wanted to use some kind of RAID solution.
Posted in: Cellphone | Date: 2008-11-14 | Author: Tobbe
Most of Nokia's upper middle class to high end phones run Symbian Series 60. And so does my 6220c.
Even before I bought this phone I knew s60 was pretty locked down when you got it. I also knew it could be hacked (thanks to my favourite technology blog www.engadget.com).
Posted in: File server | Date: 2008-11-06 | Author: Tobbe
This is the first post in a series I'm going to make about building a file server.
I've been wanting a file server for a while. Right now I'm just storing my stuff on the regular hard drives in my various computers and then I use Window's shared folders to make it available across the network.
Posted in: Development | Date: 2008-08-31 | Author: Tobbe
I have just created my very first plugin for NSIS, the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (http://nsis.sourceforge.net)
It's called tSFD (SFD = Select File Dialog) and provides a replacement for the SelectFileDialog in the nsDialogs plugin. I needed some functionality that wasn't in there, so I wrote my own replacement.
Posted in: About Me | Date: 2008-08-20 | Author: Tobbe
I bought myself a new toy a couple of days ago :D
It's a Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja from 1998. Quite the upgrade from my old Suzuki GSX 750 ES from 83! I hope I get the chance to take my new zx-6r out to a couple of runs on a race circuit next summer.
Posted in: Crosskart | Date: 2008-08-13 | Author: Tobbe
Before I could start working on the frame I had to go buy a pipe bender. A lot of people I had talked to advised me not to get a bender like that. They all said it was useless and would destroy my pipes. I wouldn't get a smooth bend. But since it was the only pipe bender I could afford the choice was simple... I had to get it!
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-08-08 | Author: Tobbe
I've added [more...] links to posts that has more text/images than what is shown on the main page. I've also made all post titles clickable to view that post only.
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-08-07 | Author: Tobbe
I've decided not to show entire posts on the first page (category news) if the post is more than 350 characters long. This is done to encourage people to use the category links. If you want to read the full post, and get clickable image thumbnails, you have to go to that post's category page. You can do that by clicking on the post's category name.
Posted in: Crosskart | Date: 2008-08-07 | Author: Tobbe
I've wanted to build myself a crosskart for some time. For those of you who don't know, a crosskart is a small four-wheeled vehicle built to be driven on gravel roads and forest trails.
I wanted my crosskart to be a one-seater, have both front and back suspension and be powered by a small motorcycle engine.
Posted in: Cellphone | Date: 2008-07-25 | Author: Tobbe
I bought myself a new cellphone a few days ago :)
It's a Nokia 6220 Classic. It runs Symbian S60, has GPS and a 5 megapixels camera. I took a couple of photos as soon as I had unpacked it. This is how they came out.
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-07-25 | Last edited: 2008-07-30 | Author: Tobbe
I'm going to use this post to see how my image posting works. Hopefully there won't be any problems. I have also fixed the bug I noted in the last post about viewing the bigger size images. It should now technically work but I don't think you can access it. This is because of my crappy host. I'll see what I can do about circumventing that.
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-07-25 | Author: Tobbe
I have added support for posting stuff in different categories. The different categories will show up in the navigation menu to the left where you can click on a category name to show all posts made to that category.
The main page shows posts from all categories.
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-02-10 | Author: Tobbe
I have written a php class for handling users. It's based on the same class I used at LSP (http://lsp.litestep.info), but I have made some updates to it. I have tried to simplify it, and I have rewritten it to use mysqli instead of the old mysql functions. There is more work to do before it is simple enough though, it's still too complex...
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-01-14 | Author: Tobbe
I've been looking at various free css templates to find something I could like. I ended up finding one with a layout I liked, and one with a design/look I liked. So I tried to combine the two. Since I suck at making things look nice I've been spending a lot of time on this. And I can't even say I like the end result very much...
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2008-01-12 | Author: Tobbe
I decided it was time to finally fix a real web page again. I haven't had one since the hard drive crashed at my host.
At first I wanted to write it in Python, but my webhost doesn't support that, so it will have to be PHP again. So I went out looking for some cool python framework or something.
Posted in: This webpage | Date: 2007-06-17 | Last edited: 2007-06-18 | Author: Tobbe
I came here to see if anyone had written any comments and noticed that I couldn't read any comments any more! It has worked just fine for a long time, and now all of a sudden it doesn't work any more... My theory is that something happened during the last php upgrade my host did.